Sewer Camera Inspection in Ajax

Telltales that call for a sewer camera inspection

• Our cable has visited the same main twice in twelve months.
• Your offer is on an Ajax house from the town's first few decades.
• Roots came back on a cutter head.
• A sinkhole or low spot has formed over the line.
• Drywall is about to cover the basement and nobody knows the state of the pipe beneath.

How we do the work

Access comes via the cleanout plug, or a lifted toilet, and we feed a self-levelling camera head down the line on a fibreglass rod. A counter on the reel gives distance in feet; a sonde in the camera housing lets us find the camera from above with a locator and mark the spot and depth on your lawn or driveway with paint or a flag.

We look for specific things and name them as we go:

• Root intrusion at joints.
• Offsets where one length has dropped below the next.
• Bellies where water lies in a sag.
• Cracks and breaks, including a collapsed section.
• Scale inside cast iron.

You get the recording and a plain written summary with distances.

On Ajax streets

Ajax went through its fastest growth from the 1950s to the 1990s, so lateral materials range from clay tile and cast iron to ABS and PVC. Many lines run under driveways that were repaved several times. Knowing exactly where a defect sits can turn a full-length dig into a single, small excavation or a trenchless repair by a specialist.

Price swings on

Whether a cleanout exists, how many metres we travel, and whether cleaning has to come first.

Worth asking the plumber

• Can I keep the recording?
• Which defects need action now and which can be watched?
• Is the defect on the Region's side of the property line?