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Default Video inspection of sewer lines

BetaB4 wrote:
I have a sewer line that has been clogging up several times over the past 6
weeks or so, and I would like to be able to figure out exactly what's going
on. I know one option is to pay someone to come out and do the video
inspection, but I have heard that can be fairly expensive. Does anyone know
of any less expensive ways that I can do this myself? For example, are
there any tool rental places that rent the equipment to do a video
inspection?


I contacted the city after two of four sewer blockages at our condo.
The second time, they came out and ran a camera up from their main sewer
line and up ours. They determined that our line was "in bad shape", but
gave no other details. Right after that, they installed a clean out at
the edge of our property, so that we would, in the future, only have to
go that far to remove obstructions. After that, the condo hired a
plumber to scope it, and I watched while they did it - could see pretty
plainly that the bottom of the cast iron line was gone. One guy fed the
line into the sewer and watched the monitor while the other tracked the
probe, using something that looked like a metal detector and sounded
when it was over the camera....the line has markings for distance, so's
one will know where the blockages are.

My son has an underwater camera for fishing that he raves
about....haven't seen it, don't know how it would work, but here is a
link on some....

http://www.aquavu.com/store/