A camera goes into the pipe, records what is there, and produces a graded report. That is all it is. What differs between firms is what you are left holding afterwards.
We open every accessible chamber first and work out the layout before anything goes into a pipe. In this part of Warrington that step matters more than anywhere — it is how we find out whether the run serving your house also serves three others.
Then the camera goes into each run and travels it as far as it goes. You watch the screen with us; nothing is kept back for a report later.
Each defect is coded to MSCC5 — the Manual of Sewer Condition Classification — and graded for severity. The coding matters because it is a common language: any contractor, engineer or insurer reads the same code the same way.
Every defect is fixed by distance from a named chamber and by depth. Those two numbers are what let a contractor quote without a second visit, and what let an insurer treat the report as evidence.
Around an hour for a typical Padgate semi. Terraced property with shared chambers can take longer, simply because establishing the layout is a larger part of the work.
The report and the full narrated footage reach you the same day.
Before buying, when a blockage keeps returning, when a building is cracking and nobody can say why, when an insurer asks, and after repair work you have no other way of checking.
And in WA1 and WA2 there is a fifth: when you and your neighbours cannot agree whose drain it is. That is a question of fact, and a survey answers it.