Drain Camera Inspection
Faerie Glen
Drain camera inspection in Faerie Glen puts a CCTV camera inside the pipe, so the choice to dig, jet or leave it alone rests on footage instead of a guess. It matters most before you buy a house, and when a drain keeps blocking.
Questions only a camera can answer
Each of these is a question that clearing the drain cannot answer.
The same drain blocks again and again
If a drain needs clearing every few weeks, something in the pipe keeps catching waste: roots at a joint, a dropped section, or a sag where water lies. Rods and jets clear the symptom. The footage shows the cause.
You are about to buy the house
The seller’s plumbing certificate covers compliance, the meter and stormwater, not the state of the pipes underground. A survey before transfer shows the drains while there is still time to raise them with the seller.
Damp patches or smells over the drain line
A cracked or displaced pipe lets sewage seep into the ground around it. A damp strip, one patch of unusually green lawn or a smell beside a path is worth filming before the ground underneath softens.
Nobody can find the manhole
Tshwane’s by-laws require manholes and cleaning eyes to stay visible and accessible, yet paving, decks and garden beds swallow them over the years. The camera traces the line to show where the access points went.
New paving or an extension over the drain
Before a driveway, patio or room goes over a drain, it pays to know the pipe is sound. Lifting brand-new paving to reach a broken pipe is the expensive way to find out.
A big tree close to the drain line
Fine roots find their way into small leaks at pipe joints and thicken there. Established gardens put large trees near drain runs, and the camera shows whether any roots have got in and how far.
Before transfer in Faerie Glen, put a camera down the drain
Faerie Glen was first established in 1974, so the drains under its oldest houses have been in the ground for about fifty years. Older homes may have clay drain pipes, and an old joint that leaks slightly is where fine roots tend to find their way in. Whether a particular house has them is something only the camera can confirm.
When a property in Tshwane is sold, the seller must produce a certificate from an accredited plumber. Under the City’s Water Supply By-laws it confirms that the installation complies, that the meter registers, and that no stormwater runs into the sewer. It is a useful document, but it is not a camera survey, and the drain runs under the lawn are not filmed for it.
Trees are the other reason to look. In January 2020 Rekord reported a leak at the corner of Old Farm Road and Stonewall Lane in Faerie Glen, where tree roots may have crushed a water pipe, and the leak was finally traced to a manhole covered with soil behind a big tree. Estate agents count the suburb’s tree-lined streets and wooded gardens among its selling points.
That story carries a second lesson. Tshwane’s Sanitation By-laws require every manhole and cleaning eye on a property to stay visible and accessible, yet decades of paving, decks and flower beds bury them. The person who discovers this is usually whoever is trying to clear a blockage at night, with sewage rising at the gully.
A survey before the transfer goes through turns those unknowns into a list. You get footage of each run, a note of every root, crack or displaced joint with how far along the line it sits, and the position of each access point, buried or not, while there is still time to ask the seller about it.
Buying an older house? Ask for a drain camera survey before transfer, and ask the seller where the manholes are.
How a camera survey is run
What comes with every inspection.
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Footage you keep
The recording and the notes are yours. Show them to the seller, the agent or another plumber if you want a second opinion.
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Faults marked by distance
Each defect is noted with how far along the line it sits, so a repair can be dug in one spot instead of trenching the whole garden.
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Cleared first if it has to be
A camera sees nothing through standing sewage. If the line is blocked it is cleared before filming, and you agree that price first.
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No repair sold on the spot
The survey is a survey. You receive the findings and the options, then decide what happens next with the footage in hand.
From the request to footage you can act on
One run at a time, from access point to access point.
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Book the survey
Say whether it is a pre-purchase check or a problem drain, and whether you know where the manholes are.
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Find the access points
Manholes, cleaning eyes and the gully are located and opened, including any that have been paved over.
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Run the camera
Each line is filmed from one access point to the next, and every defect is marked by its distance.
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Report and options
You get the findings, the footage and what each fault would take to fix, priced before anything is agreed.
Drain camera questions
What a survey costs, what it shows, and who fixes what it finds.
How much does a drain camera inspection cost in Faerie Glen?
What does a CCTV drain inspection show?
Is a camera survey worth it before buying a house?
How can I tell if tree roots are in my drain?
What is a rodding eye, and where is mine?
Who repairs a broken pipe the camera finds?
Will the City relay my paving after digging up a sewer?
Can I build or pave over a drain?
Request a drain camera inspection in Faerie Glen
Tell us the street, whether it is a pre-purchase survey or a problem drain, and any transfer date to work around.
Where we work
- Faerie Glen
- Garsfontein
- Lynnwood Glen
- Moreleta Park
- Lynnwood
- Lynnwood Ridge
- Lynnwood Park
- Die Wilgers
- Equestria
- Wapadrand
- Olympus
- Constantia Park
- Waterkloof Glen
- Menlyn
- Silver Lakes
- Mooikloof
- Woodhill
- Murrayfield