VIDEO SEWER INSPECTION IN SALT LAKE CITY

A sewer camera is the difference between guessing what's wrong with a drain line and knowing. We feed a flexible cable with a high-resolution camera head down the cleanout, run it the full length of the line out to the city connection, and you watch the monitor in real time as the lens moves through your pipe. By the time we're done, you've seen every joint, every bend, every crack, and every issue.

Three reasons people in Salt Lake City call us to camera a sewer line.

Reason 1: Pre-purchase inspection

You're buying a 1925 Avenues bungalow, a 1950s Sugar House rambler, or a downtown brownstone, and you want to know what the sewer line actually looks like before you sign. The standard home inspection doesn't cover the sewer line beyond a quick flush check. The sewer line is buried, 60–100+ years old, often clay or cast iron, and a $200 camera inspection can save you $15,000–$30,000 on a buried surprise. We've seen plenty of pre-purchase SLC inspections that revealed a collapsed clay main right under the front yard. Closing costs got renegotiated.

Reason 2: Recurring clog diagnosis

The same kitchen line in your 1932 Liberty Wells home backs up twice a year and you're tired of paying for snake jobs that don't last. The camera shows why — usually a belly in old cast iron, a crack in a clay sewer joint, or roots from a century-old elm working through a coupling. Until you know, you can't fix it permanently.

Reason 3: Pre-trenchless or pre-repair scope

Before we quote a sewer line replacement, trenchless lining, or hydro-jetting, we run a camera. Quoting blind is how plumbers oversell. The camera shows whether you really need the $12,000 trenchless or whether a $475 jetting solves it.

What you get with a camera inspection

• Live video as we run the line — you watch on the monitor with the tech
• Recorded video file emailed to you afterward (you keep it for resale or insurance)
• Written summary of findings with photos at problem points
• Distance markings — we know exactly how far down the line each issue is
• Honest recommendation for next steps, including "leave it alone" when that's right

What's specific to old SLC homes

Old SLC sewer lines have predictable failure modes. Pre-1940 homes often have clay sewer pipe to the city main — clay cracks, joints separate, and tree roots find every gap. Yalecrest, Harvard-Yale, and Avenues homes under century-old elms see the worst of this. Pre-1970 homes have cast iron from the foundation to the cleanout, then clay or Orangeburg out to the street. Cast iron tuberculation (scale buildup), Orangeburg collapse (the tar-paper material was used in some 1940s–60s SLC builds and it's all failing now), and bellying mid-line are the typical findings. We see all of these and we know what we're looking at.

Pricing is flat-rate at $295–$485 for residential. Members of the Quality Service Club get 15% off plus the annual whole-home plumbing inspection that includes a quick camera spot-check.