CCTV Drain Inspection Rathmines

CCTV drain inspection in Rathmines feeds a waterproof camera through your pipes and shows you the fault before a shovel comes out. You get the footage, a plain answer on what is wrong, and a fixed figure for fixing it. Book on (02) 4093 0558.

Camera work is part of the drain service, next to jetting, root cutting and relining, and your plumber in Rathmines handles all of it.

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Licensed plumbers and gas fitters · NSW Lic. 359278C

Last updated September 2026

What Can the Camera Actually Show You?

The footage answers questions a plunger never can:

How far along the pipe the fault is, read off the cable counter
Whether roots have pushed through a joint or the pipe has cracked and ledged
Whether the wall of the line is sound or thinning toward a collapse
Whose responsibility the repair is, once the boundary point appears on screen

That last point settles whose repair it is before anyone spends money.

How We Run the Camera

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Ring or send the form
Call (02) 4093 0558 or use the form to explain the fault. We ask enough to bring the right equipment the first time.
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A fixed price first
A plumber inspects the job and names a fixed figure up front. Nothing gets started until you give the go-ahead.
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Camera down the line
The camera travels from the nearest access point, recording as it goes, and we watch the screen together and name what it finds.
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Covered for a year
Every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work. If something we did isn't right, ring the same number.

After the run, the footage gets talked through on the spot. If the line needs high-pressure jetting to clear it, that gets priced as a separate step. If the wall is cracked, pipe relining repairs it without excavating the garden.

How Is the Camera Work Priced?

Four things shape the figure, and the camera keeps most of them honest:

Getting the camera in An existing inspection opening, or pulling a toilet or finding a buried riser
Metres of pipe Filmed before the fault shows up
The finding A clean pipe needs nothing more, while a collapse leads to a separate repair quote
Where the line runs Because a route under a driveway or mature planting takes more care than a straight run through open ground

We provide up-front, honest quotes that will always match the final price, should you decide to go ahead. No dollar figures get invented on the day, and nothing extra starts without your approval.

Why Low Ground Makes Footage Worth It

Digging here is wet work

Rathmines sits at about 7 metres, and the high water table under the foreshore blocks fills a trench as it is dug. A hole in the wrong spot in that ground is costly, so the camera proves where the fault is first.

A century of clay rewards proof too

Halloran laid this suburb out a hundred years ago on the garden-city pattern, looping roads and pocket parks, and the earliest glazed-clay drains beneath those streets now crack and ledge internally. The mature plantings that keep them leafy send feeder roots into every gap. The camera names the exact joint that let go, so the repair lands on the right section the first time.

Long runs under old gardens

At the last census 42.1 per cent of homes here had four or more bedrooms, and a big house can mean a long drain under established beds. The footage maps the whole route before anything is dug up.

Once the footage confirms roots, cutting them out is a tree root removal job, and a blocked sewer that keeps coming back gets its cause shown on screen.

What Customers Say

Our blocked toilet morphed into a huge plumbing earthworks project due to extreme pipe damage from tree roots.

Lauren

When we're not the right call: if the camera reaches Hunter Water's sewer main and the damage is there, they repair it, not us, and you can report it to them with our footage. A collapse needing a full dig gets its own quote before ground opens.

Questions From Homes Around Here

How does a camera inspection find a fault under a Rathmines garden?

The camera head travels the full line and records everything it passes, so the screen shows the exact spot where roots break through a clay joint or a section has given way. You watch alongside the plumber, the fault is named, and the repair is priced on what the screen shows.

Does the camera go down a second time after the clear?

Yes. After jetting, the camera is fed back through so you can see open pipe and judge the walls. From that pass you know whether to leave the drain as it is or price relining.

Can the footage show whose job the repair is?

It can. The cable counter shows how far the camera has gone, placing the break or root mass inside your property line or out in the main. A fault in the main goes to Hunter Water.

Is a camera run needed for every slow drain in Rathmines?

No. A soft blockage close to the fixture can clear without one. The camera is worth it for blockages that return, fixtures slow all through the house, or low ground near the lake where you want proof before digging.

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Call (02) 4093 0558 or send the form below. Available 24/7, you see a fixed figure ahead of any work, and every job carries our 365-day warranty on all work.

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