Backups that return, several fixtures draining slowly, gurgling in the pipes or a sewage smell can mean the line carrying waste out of the house is damaged. A camera shows the inside of the pipe, and the repair is chosen from what it finds.
The work runs from cutting out roots to replacing a failed section of line or the whole run, depending on what the camera shows.
A camera on a flexible cable enters through a cleanout and crawls the line. It records the pipe material, joints, low spots, roots and breaks and how far along each one lies, and that recording shows the plumber whether a spot repair is enough.
A cable fitted with a rotating blade chops out roots that have grown into a joint. Running the camera through afterward shows whether the joint needs repairing as well.
Damage that is limited to one stretch is repaired by excavating at that point, cutting out the cracked, offset or collapsed pipe and fitting new in its place, leaving the remainder of the line alone.
A line that has failed along its whole length is renewed with new pipe across the full damaged run the camera recording identifies.
Before anything is dug up, the recording separates a stoppage that a cable clears from a line that has cracked, rooted or collapsed. It also marks how far from the cleanout each defect sits, so any digging stays at that spot.
Over half of East Orange’s homes were built before 1960. Enter the year your own house went up into the sewer line age checker, and it compares that year with the pipe materials builders were installing then. This is a guide based on era and not an inspection, and only a camera shows what is in the ground.
Not every backup needs a camera. Where rodding clears the stoppage the visit is drain cleaning, and replacement supply piping is a repiping job. Every other service is listed in full on the homepage.
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