Footage and a written report on the drains at your Dorking home, farm or business.
A CCTV survey puts a small camera inside the pipe, so we can see what is wrong without digging. In Dorking it is booked for repeat blockages, house purchases and to find out where the pipes go at properties on private drainage.
With chalk and greensand on the hills and heavy clay in the Low Weald, drains around Dorking meet very different ground. Clay moves and holds water, and that can open joints and waterlog drainage fields, so a survey is useful for any property that has had trouble.
In the Surrey Hills villages, plenty of homes have a tank rather than a sewer. We can survey the pipes leading to it and the tank itself, and you receive the footage and a written report listing each fault and its position.
What’s included
Footage, a report and a clear next step.
The pipe is recorded as the camera moves through it, so you can watch the faults for yourself.
The report lists each fault and where it sits, written so a surveyor, solicitor or builder can act on it.
Where silt or fat gets in the way, we jet the drain before filming.
Covers under paving or no plan at all? We can trace and map the run.
A home buyers’ survey checks the drains before you exchange.
A septic tank survey covers the tank as well as the pipes leading to it.
If a drain has needed clearing more than once, the camera shows why. It might be roots, a cracked pipe or a joint that has moved.
We can clear it first so the pipe can be filmed. If it is blocked now, start with our Dorking blocked drains page.
About CCTV drainage surveys
For a house in the hills or the Weald, whether it is on mains drainage is one of the first questions. If it has a tank, a survey shows what is there and what condition it is in.
We can survey, trace pipes and empty the tank on one visit. See the Dorking septic tank page for the tank itself.
About septic tank surveysLocal to you
We survey drains in Dorking, Westcott, Pixham, North Holmwood and Brockham, and across the villages from Betchworth and Coldharbour to Capel, Ockley and Newdigate. Ring with your postcode to confirm. The full Dorking area list has the rest.
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A small camera is fed into the drain through a chamber or gully and travels along the pipe, recording. We log each fault and its position for your report.
It names each fault, shows where it is and says plainly what it means, so you can pass it to a surveyor, solicitor or builder.
Often. Country houses are likelier to have older or private drainage, and a survey shows what you have and what state it is in before you commit.
Yes. The tank and the pipes serving it are covered, and if the tank is due for emptying we can usually do that on the same visit.
Chalk and greensand drain freely, but the Low Weald clay holds water and moves with the seasons. That can open joints and leave drainage fields soggy.
We clear it with jetting first so the camera can see, and tell you before we start if we expect that to be necessary.
Yes, as well as private homes. Let us know about access and any steep lanes when you book.
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