Sewer Camera Inspection across Vaughan

What the camera shows

We push a waterproof camera head on a fibreglass rod through the cleanout and watch the live picture on a monitor. A sonde built into the camera head means we can find it from the yard with a receiver, so we can mark the lawn or driveway at any trouble spot and tell you its depth. Things we commonly find:

• Root intrusion at joints of clay or concrete laterals.
• Bellies, where the line has settled and holds a long puddle.
• Offset joints where one section has shifted against the next.
• Scale and tuberculation inside old cast iron, narrowing the bore.
• Cracks and holes, sometimes from a past excavation or a heavy vehicle on a shallow line.
• Foreign objects such as wipes, toys or construction debris left from a renovation.

When an inspection is worth it

Book one if a drain has clogged twice in a year, if you are purchasing an older home, or before finishing a basement. A clean report on a finished-basement project costs far less than lifting new flooring later. Our guide on scoping a sewer before buying explains what buyers should ask for.

What you receive

We walk you along the footage at the monitor and note the distance of each defect from the cleanout. If a repair is needed, those distances tell an excavator exactly where to dig, which keeps the hole small and spares the rest of the lawn. We also say plainly when the pipe looks fine and the clog was just a clog.

Vaughan pipe materials we see

Pre-1980 homes in Woodbridge and Thornhill often have clay or early concrete laterals. Many 1980s and 90s subdivisions in Maple and Vellore used PVC sewer pipe, which tends to stay sound but can belly in poorly compacted fill. Very new builds near the Metropolitan Centre are usually in good shape but can still hold construction debris, which a camera spots quickly.