CCTV Surveys and Inspection

What is a Drainage CCTV Survey?

Sometimes, the symptoms of a blocked drain conceal just that – a blockage which can be broken up and flushed away with the right professional equipment and attention to detail. Having said that, sometimes there is something else going on beneath the surface and underneath your plughole – with extensive blockages and abandoned debris causing […]

What is the Purpose Behind a Drainage CCTV Survey?

CCTV is commonly associated with surveillance, and with using cameras to track activity in public spaces and around specific areas of note and high importance. A tactic employed by businesses as well as homeowners, CCTV is a security measure which allows the user to see what’s going on via a camera – with the same […]

Everything you Need to Know About CCTV Surveys in the Drainage Industry

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the only CCTV you need to know about in London is the kind that protects residents and stores, as well as businesses and landmarks across the city. However, the kind of CCTV surveys that we’re interested in are far less concerned with what’s going on across the streets of […]

What Does CCTV Have To Do With Drain Unblocking?

It’s time for a fact check blog, this time focussing on our CCTV surveys in London and how we use CCTV not as part of monitoring locations and people but as part of our work in identifying, navigating, and alleviating drain blockages. So many clients come to us wondering why CCTV is one of the […]

CCTV survey equipment

The drains which leave domestic and commercial properties and the public sewers which carry the waste to sewage treatment works across the city of London do not always work without problems. In fact, because most of London’s drainage system was built over one hundred years ago the drainage experts across the capital find themselves battling […]

CCTV drainage survey in London

Perhaps the most difficult part of a drainage engineer’s job is finding out where a sewer is blocked. Most drainage engineers will resort to a using drain jetting equipment when a blockage occurs in the hope that the high pressure jet of water is powerful enough to blast though the clog. However if jetting fails […]

The CCTV survey is a great drain maintenance tool

Due to their size and their location, it is simply not possible to view the inside of many drains in the city of London. However, if you use CCTV survey equipment, this can give you images of the inside of the drainage pipes so the site of a blockage can be found. CCTV surveys in […]

Stopping roots entering the drainage system

One of the most common problems which drainage engineers face is root intrusion. When a drainage pipe is cracked or damaged roots find their way into the pipe and then quickly multiply. When this happens the waste flowing through the pipe finds it difficult to pass which eventually results in a drain blockage. If you […]

Checking for drainage problems before you buy a new house

Buying a house can be fraught with anxiety. There’s so much paperwork to do and so many things to be aware of that it’s easy to miss something important. Most of us who buy a house need to have some sort of survey done, either for the mortgage company or just so we can see […]
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