Sewer Mainline
Broken, bellied and offset line dug out and replaced, from the fixture to the city connection.
The job behind the photograph.
A blockage tells you almost nothing about why it blocked. Two houses on the same street with the same symptom can want a twenty-minute cable and a full mainline replacement, and the only honest way to tell them apart is to put a camera in and look. That is why nobody here writes a number for a repair before the line has been seen.
What the camera finds is usually one of a short list. A belly, where a section has settled and holds standing water that everything else catches on. An offset joint, where two lengths have shifted out of line and left a lip. Roots, in through a joint or a crack, and the joint is the thing that matters because they grow back to the same one. Scale and corrosion, on cast iron that has been in the ground since the house was built. Or a clean break, usually with the ground washing into it.
You watch it live, on the monitor, standing next to it. Where the run allows, the head is located from the surface so the depth and the position are marked on the ground rather than estimated. That is what turns "somewhere under the drive" into a hole in one place. And a camera run is worth having before you buy a property, before a floor goes down, and after a jetting, when it is the one time the wall of the pipe is actually visible.
You watch it
On the monitor, live
Standing next to it while it runs, not sent a still afterwards.
Finds
Bellies, offsets, roots, breaks
And tells them apart, which is the whole point of looking.
Located
Marked on the surface
Where the run allows, so a dig is one hole in the right place.
Worth it before
Buying, paving, quoting
A line you cannot see is the most expensive assumption on the property.
Book a visit
Get somebody out to the line.
Which fixtures are affected and roughly how long it has been going on is enough to start with. If it is backing up right now, the phone is faster than the form, and it is answered at any hour.
