CCTV Drain Inspections in Greenwich
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Drain cameras get run every week across this peninsula, turning buried guesswork into recorded proof before a single shovel goes in. One call books a licensed plumber, a full survey and a fixed written price for whatever the footage shows, and it all starts at Greenwich's own local plumbing team.
- $0 Call Out Fee
- Lifetime Labour Warranty
- Licensed & Insured
- Lic #275278C
- Licensed & Insured
- $0 Call Out Fee
- Lifetime Labour Warranty
- On-Site Fast, 24/7
- 1000+ five-star reviews
- Real Humans Answer, Day or Night
- Lic #275278C
- Licensed & Insured
- $0 Call Out Fee
- Lifetime Labour Warranty
- On-Site Fast, 24/7
- 1000+ five-star reviews
- Real Humans Answer, Day or Night
- Lic #275278CNSW plumbing licence, fully insured, water and gas
- $0 Call Out FeeIt costs nothing to get us to your door
- Lifetime Labour WarrantyIf it's not right, we come back. No questions. No cost.
- 1000+ five-star reviewsSydney homeowners have rated us five stars over a thousand times
A real person answers, day or night
See exactly what is going on inside the pipe before anyone digs
Most drain faults stay invisible until someone puts a camera where the water runs, which is why we survey first and quote second, every time, on every line we inspect.
Long, steep falls make camera evidence essential here
- Double-sided drainage The peninsula sheds water toward the harbour and toward Gore Creek on opposite flanks, so most homes carry long private runs that drop sharply and hide their junctions well below ground level.
- Old pipe under old streets Salt-glazed earthenware laid before the war still serves much of the point, and a century of ground movement has shifted joints in ways no surface check can reveal.
- Institutions on the line Large sites like the hospital and the schools carry equally old infrastructure, where a recorded survey beats exploratory digging every time.
A camera pass answers the questions an excavation would otherwise answer the expensive way: where the line runs, what condition it is in, and what actually caused the fault.
What our CCTV drain inspections cover
We bring the camera out for more than blocked drains, because a recorded survey settles arguments, guides renovations and protects buyers. Each service below gets the same discipline: full-length footage, distance-marked faults and a plain-English report.
Pre-purchase drain surveys
A camera pass before you buy records every joint, root intruder and crack along the line, so the Federation charmer you are eyeing near the harbour comes with evidence instead of a stranger's cheerful assurance that the drains are fine.
Repeat blockage diagnosis
When a drain chokes again months after clearing, the camera shows why, whether shifted earthenware joints keep catching debris, a back-fall holds water, or roots regrow through the same gap, so the repair targets the cause rather than symptoms.
Stormwater and sewer mapping
Steep falls toward Gore Creek hide where a line actually runs, so a recorded survey maps every junction, bend and boundary trap across the block, which proves invaluable before landscaping, renovations or any excavation that might go near buried drainage.
Damage reports for insurers
Footage with location stamps turns an underground failure into documented proof, showing the collapsed section, the intruding roots or the displaced joint exactly as it sits, which supports insurance claims and gives Sydney Water evidence where their main is involved.
Village streets, deep blocks and pipes nobody has ever seen
- The oldest pipework in the municipality The blocks behind the Greenwich Road shops carry deep garden soil and pre-war lines, and most owners have never seen a metre of their own drainage until the screen lights up.
- You watch it with us An hour of footage shows the roots threading through a shifted earthenware joint or the silt sitting in a sag, and suddenly the house you own makes sense underground.
- Renovators get receipts Anyone planning new bathrooms or extensions finds the survey pays for itself before the excavator arrives, because the existing lines and their condition are already on record.
What the camera usually finds down there
Recurring chokes
A drain that blocks every few months usually has a structural cause a plunger can never fix, and the survey finds it: cracked earthenware, a sagging section holding silt or a root mass regrowing from a joint nobody sealed.
Mystery smells and damp
Odours inside or damp patches above an unknown line point to a fault you cannot see, and a survey traces the smell to its source, whether a shifted joint under the house or a cracked trap near the boundary.
Why guessing costs more than looking: the case for a survey first
- Wrong repairs waste money Digging in the wrong spot, jetting a line whose real fault is structural, or replacing fixtures while the pipe behind them fails all cost more than the inspection that would have prevented them.
- Evidence strengthens your position Whether the conversation is with an insurer, an owners corporation or Sydney Water, marked footage of the fault ends the argument about where the problem sits and who is responsible.
- Plans get built on facts Renovation budgets, landscaping designs and purchase decisions all improve when the condition of the underground drainage is known rather than assumed, and the recording keeps those facts on file for years.
How it works
How our inspection process works, step by step
- 01
Call and tell us
Ring (02) 9072 0504 and describe what's happening, and a licensed plumber, not an answering machine, will tell you what it likely means, what to stop using, and when we can realistically be there.
- 02
Quote before work
Your plumber inspects the job properly, runs whatever diagnosis it genuinely needs, and hands you a single fixed written price covering the complete fix, with a $0 call out fee and nothing added afterwards.
- 03
Survey and walk you through it
We feed the camera from the access point through the full run, noting every fault with its distance marker, then play the footage back with you on screen and hand over a written report with a fixed price for whatever repair it points to.
- 04
Backed for life
Everything we complete is covered by our Lifetime Labour Warranty, the promise that outlasts the job itself: if it's not right, we come back. No questions. No cost.
Why choose Your Plumber Greenwich
Fixed prices, kept
Every job is priced upfront in plain writing before any work starts, the invoice always matches that number, and weekend or late-evening timing changes nothing, because overtime rates simply don't exist here.
Licensed and insured
Your Plumber Greenwich works under licence #275278C with full insurance behind every job, and the compliance certificates that protect your home's paperwork trail arrive with the invoice, without you ever needing to ask for them.
Lifetime Labour Warranty
Workmanship here is guaranteed for life under our Lifetime Labour Warranty rather than for a warranty card's fine-print window, which says more about how the work is done in the first place than any advertisement could.
Genuinely local response
We work these streets constantly rather than commuting in from across Sydney, so the van reaching you has usually just left a job nearby, stocked for the faults the local houses actually develop.
Footage only matters if the crew reading it knows what the local pipe stock looks like, and ours does.
Where we work
Areas our drain camera service covers
Surveys run across the peninsula and out to Northwood, Wollstonecraft, St Leonards, Longueville and Waverton, with the van based close enough that local jobs get same-day attention, and every inspection reported in writing regardless of which street it sits on.
Good questions, straight answers
CCTV drain inspection questions Greenwich locals ask us
What does a CCTV drain inspection actually show?
A pushrod camera travels the full length of the line, recording cracks, displaced joints, root intrusion, silt build-up and gradient faults, and the footage comes with distance markers so any fault can be located precisely.
When would my drain need a camera inspection?
Any drain that blocks repeatedly, smells indoors, runs slowly after jetting or sits beneath a planned renovation deserves a look, because the camera shows the structural cause rather than just the symptom at the surface.
Can you inspect drains in older Federation homes without digging?
Yes, and it is the smart first step on the peninsula, where pre-war earthenware lines under Federation homes respond far better to a targeted repair than to guesswork excavation across established gardens.
How much does a drain camera inspection cost?
Every job is quoted as a fixed written price before work begins, with a $0 call out fee, so you know the full cost of the inspection and any recommended repair before committing to either.
Do you inspect drains near the Gore Creek foreshore?
We do, and foreshore blocks near Gore Creek often need them most, because steep runs and storm scour move silt down toward the water, where problems gather at the lowest points of the line.
Is the inspection carried out by a licensed plumber?
Every inspection is carried out by a licensed plumber under licence #275278C, so the same visit can diagnose the fault and quote the repair rather than leaving you to book a second contractor.
A drain mystery in Greenwich? Call now and we will look
Call (02) 9072 0504 now and speak straight to a licensed plumber, day or night. The call out fee is $0, the price goes on paper before a tool comes off the van, and every repair is backed by our Lifetime Labour Warranty.
The full drainage picture, from clearing to relining, sits on our drainage hub, and if the survey finds roots in the line, pipe relining often fixes it without touching the garden.