Camera inspection
We enter at a cleanout when there is one. The recording, the distance, and the material come back with you. Pulling a toilet is a fallback, not the first door.
One bad joint is not a new yard. A collapsed run is not a cable. We name the work before we start it.
Free inspectionPipe bursting or a liner replaces the run through small pits, not a trench the length of the property.
Honest only if the camera shows a path a new pipe can follow.
We enter at a cleanout when there is one. The recording, the distance, and the material come back with you. Pulling a toilet is a fallback, not the first door.
The sonde rides with the camera. A receiver on the lawn finds the signal and a depth. That mark is where a repair opens, not the warmest guess.
A cable cuts a hole through a soft stop. A jet washes grease and scale off the wall. Neither makes a broken pipe round again.
One failed joint, the rest of the line sound, access that does not wreck the house. We open that length and put the yard back in the scope, not as a surprise.
Offsets in several places, orangeburg, or a belly that will not drain. Replacing the run is cheaper than clearing it every season.
When trenchless cannot pass a collapse, a hard turn, or a line that has already separated. The trench is the method, not the default.
If the only way in is a pulled toilet, the next backup will be harder than it needs to be. A cleanout is part of a grown-up repair.
A cable gives you weeks. The joint that invited the root is still there. Film it, mark it, then decide between a spot repair and a new line.
Lowest fixture, whether a cleanout is in the yard, and how long the last clearing lasted. That is enough to start.