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CCTV Drain Survey in London

See the problem before you pay to fix it.

CCTV drain survey in London
No call-out feeNo night or weekend surchargeFixed price before we start12-month workmanship guarantee

A camera survey turns "probably roots, could be a collapse" into a recorded fact with a position and a depth, which is exactly the difference between a patch and an excavation.

What you get

CCTV drain survey in London: what the price includes

  • 01
    Recorded and mapped

    Full video, defect log and a sketch of the run with distances, yours to keep and to show anyone.

  • 02
    Pre-purchase surveys

    The £165 that renegotiates house prices: drains are the expensive unknown under every older property.

  • 03
    Recurring-blockage answers

    The third clearance of the same drain is the wrong purchase; the survey that ends the cycle is the right one.

  • 04
    Insurance-grade reports

    Written to the standard claims handlers expect, with stills of each defect.

  • 05
    A report a solicitor or insurer will accept

    Footage on its own is not much use to anyone. You get a written report with a plan, chainage to each defect, WRc-standard coding and a clear statement of who owns the length in question, which is the format homebuyer surveys and insurance claims are actually assessed on.

What this means in London

Local conditions we work around

A London survey is often about age and ownership at once. Much of the city drains through Victorian clay into combined sewers, so what the camera typically records is root intrusion at old joints, displaced sections and, in storm conditions, evidence of surcharge rather than blockage. The recording matters beyond the repair: pre-purchase surveys, insurance claims and disputes with a freeholder or a neighbour all turn on footage and a written report rather than on somebody's recollection.

Where we do this in London

Covered across London

Same published rate card and the same twelve-month workmanship guarantee everywhere below, there is no postcode loading. Each area has its own page with an arrival time taken from our job records rather than chosen for a website.

Straight answers

CCTV drain survey in London, your questions

What does a CCTV survey cost?
£165 including the recorded footage and written report for a typical domestic run. Multi-run or manhole-to-manhole commercial surveys quoted on scope.
Should I get one before buying a house?
On anything pre-1960 or tree-lined, emphatically yes. A collapsed drain is a five-figure discovery; the survey is £165 and completes in an hour. It's the best-value check in the housebuying process.
What happens after the survey?
You get the findings with options priced separately, patch line, full reline, excavation or nothing at all. The survey fee never obliges you to buy the repair from us.
Do I need one before buying a house?
On any property with mature trees, an extension over a drain run, or original clay drainage, which describes most pre-war London housing, it is one of the better hundred-and-something pounds you will spend. Drain repairs are not covered by a standard building survey.
Can you tell whose drain it is?
Yes, and it is often the most valuable line in the report. Since 2011 shared and lateral drains beyond your boundary transferred to the water company. If the defect is on their length, we say so and you should not be paying anyone to fix it.
What if the camera cannot get through?
A blockage or a collapse stops the camera, which is itself a finding. We clear what can be cleared and re-run it, and where there is a genuine collapse we locate it from the surface so the excavation is a metre wide rather than exploratory.
Is London drainage different?
Much of it is Victorian, and a great deal of it is combined, foul and surface water in the same pipe. Two things follow: heavy rain can surcharge the system and push water back up the lowest gully in a property with no blockage present at all, and the old clay runs under gardens and pavements have joints that tree roots find. Root intrusion is one of the most common things our cameras record here.
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