Sewer Inspection in Bucks County, MontCo & Philadelphia
A sewer camera inspection puts a waterproof camera on a cable into the drain line and sends it toward the street, showing the inside of the pipe on a screen as it goes. It is the only way to know what is in a pipe buried under a lawn, a basement floor or a sidewalk without digging it up, and it turns a guess about roots, breaks or bellies into a picture with a location on it.
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Schedule Your Inspection
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Camera Inserted into the Line
Our technician inserts a high-resolution waterproof camera into your sewer cleanout or drain access point.
Real-Time Video Footage
Watch live as our camera travels through your pipe. We can see exactly what’s happening inside the line as we go.
Written Report Provided
You receive a complete written summary of findings — including the footage and specific locations of any issues found.
Honest Recommendations
We explain your options clearly and honestly. Repair, hydro jetting, pipe lining, or replacement — we recommend only what you actually need.
What a call includes
- Camera inspection of the main line from the house to the street, or to the septic tank
- Locating: a transmitter on the camera head marks the depth and position of a problem from above
- Recorded footage, and a written report with what was found and where
- Pre-purchase inspections for a house under contract
- Inspection after a repeat backup, before deciding between repair and replacement
- Post-repair and post-jetting verification
- Straight recommendations: cut, clean, line, repair, replace — or nothing
What people describe
- A main line that has backed up more than once
- Buying an older house and wanting to know what is under the lawn before closing
- Trees in the front yard and a drain that slows every spring
- A sewage smell, or a soft wet patch in the yard over the line
- A previous plumber said the line needs replacing and you want to see it yourself
- Slow drains throughout the house with no single clog to blame
- Selling a house and wanting a clean report on hand
How a visit goes
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Assessment
The camera goes in at a cleanout or, where there is none, at an accessible drain, and is walked down the line at a pace that lets every joint be seen. The technician is reading the pipe as it goes: material, joints, standing water, roots, offsets, cracks, and the transition where the private line meets the main.
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Options
What the camera shows decides everything, and you see it with them. Roots at a joint can be cut and the joint watched. Scale and grease can be jetted. A belly, an offset or a broken section is a repair, and its location, marked from above, decides whether that is a spot dig in the lawn or something bigger.
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The work
For an inspection the work is the inspection: a careful pass, a recording, and a mark on the ground where a problem is. If the line has to be cleared to get the camera through, that is done first, and the camera goes back in afterwards to confirm what the clearing left.
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Sign-off
You get the footage and a written report — pipe material, condition, findings and their locations — that you can hand to a buyer, a seller, an insurer or another contractor. It is your record, not ours.
When it is an emergency, call
An inspection is a planned visit. What is not planned is sewage on the floor — if that is happening, it is a drain-clearing emergency first and an inspection afterwards.
- Sewage backing up into the house
- A sinkhole, or a sudden wet depression over the sewer line
- A backup in a rowhome that the neighbors are also seeing
Questions people ask
- Should I get a sewer inspection before buying a house?
- For any house more than a few decades old, yes. A standard home inspection does not include the sewer line, and a lateral replacement is one of the most expensive surprises a buyer can get. A camera inspection is a small fraction of that, and the footage gives you something to negotiate with.
- What are the most common things a sewer camera finds?
- Roots entering at a joint, especially in clay pipe under mature trees; a belly where the pipe has sagged and holds water; an offset joint where one section has shifted; corrosion and scale in cast iron; and cracks or a collapsed section. Grease and debris are common too, but they are a cleaning matter, not a pipe matter.
- Does the inspection damage the pipe or the house?
- No. The camera rides a flexible cable that follows the pipe, enters at an existing access point, and nothing is dug. If there is no cleanout, adding one is the one piece of work that may be recommended — it makes every future inspection and cleaning simpler.
- What happens if you find a problem?
- You see it on the screen, its position is marked above ground, and the options are explained with the footage in front of you: cut and monitor, clean, line the pipe, repair the section, or replace the run. Nothing is decided on the spot unless it is an active emergency.
- Who is responsible for the sewer line — me or the town?
- In most municipalities around here, Philadelphia included, the property owner is responsible for the lateral from the house to the connection with the main in the street. The camera shows which side of that line a problem is on, which matters before anyone excavates.
Sewer Inspection by town
The same crew in every one of these — and a page on what sewer inspection work looks like in each town's houses. Distances are straight-line from our Levittown yard.