Sewer Camera Inspection: What You’ll See and Why It’s Worth It

Guessing about a sewer line is how people pay twice: once for a clean that doesn’t last, and again for a dig in the wrong place. A camera inspection is a flashlight in a dark pipe. You see scale, grease, roots, offsets, and collapses, and you decide with facts.

Good times to camera

• •Repeat backups in the same fixtures
• •Buying or selling a home with an old lateral
• •After a major storm backup
• •Before quoting a full line replacement

What “belly” and “offset” mean

A belly is a sag that holds water and debris. An offset is a joint that no longer lines up. Both catch solids. Cleaning helps for a while; gravity and soil movement keep winning until the pipe is repaired or replaced.

What you will see on the screen

Grease ridges, root masses, standing water in a belly, cracked hubs, and grease-slick PVC. We narrate as we go so you are not watching a mystery tunnel.

Buying or selling a house

A pre-purchase camera can save a five-figure surprise. A pre-listing camera can prevent a deal from blowing up in inspection. Neither replaces a full home inspection, but it answers the sewer question.

After the inspection

You get options: clean, spot repair, or replace. We would rather lose a repair job than sell you a clean that cannot last.

• Drain cleaning
• Sanford sewer repair