Root ingress
Fine roots find an open joint and grow into a mat that catches everything. Cut out with a jetter, then a patch liner seals the joint.
CCTV surveys
See inside the drain.
A recorded colour camera through every run, every defect graded with its distance from the chamber, and a written report in plain English with the stills that matter.
What we find
Six defects, most weeks.
Displaced joint
Ground movement shifts one pipe off the next, leaving a lip that catches paper and wipes. Minor ones are watched; bad ones are lined.
Cracked pipe
Old clay cracks under heavy vehicles and frost. A single crack takes a patch liner; many along a run take a full liner.
Dip or belly
A section that has sunk holds standing water and silt. Shallow dips are jetted regularly; deep ones mean digging.
Fat build-up
Kitchen fat cools and lines the pipe like a narrowing artery. Jetted out, and the cause at the sink explained.
Collapse
The pipe has broken and the ground has come in. It cannot be lined; it has to be dug up and replaced, priced from the survey.
The report
Written for you, and your insurer.
Siân writes every report herself. It has a plan of the drain run with each chamber, the pipe sizes and materials, every defect with its distance, a grade and a still, and what we would do about it with a price. Insurers and buyers' solicitors take it as it is.
- A plan of the run, chambers and connections
- Every defect graded, with a still and its distance
- Repair options with prices, from nothing to relining
- The recorded footage to keep
Questions about surveys
When is a survey worth it?
When a drain has blocked more than once, when you are buying an older house or one with trees near the drain, before building an extension over or near a drain, and for an insurance claim.
What does it cost?
£165 for a typical house with report and footage; £230 if a run needs clearing first so the camera can get through. Surveys are booked in working hours.
Can you survey a drain that is blocked?
We clear it first, then survey, because the camera cannot see through standing water and debris.
Overflowing? Ring now.
The phones are answered day and night. You get the price for the job and the time of day before we set off, an arrival window, and a text when we are fifteen minutes away.