CCTV Assisted Drain
Clearances and the Benefits of Using CCTV
Clearing blocked drainages is a task, which is
often challenging and it can sometimes become frustrating when the cause of
blockage is unidentifiable. There are numerous causes of drain blockage, and
the identification of the true cause of blockage is an essential step that
helps you select the most ideal method of unblocking your drains. Fortunately,
the novel and innovative use of CCTV in drain surveys and clearances has
improved and made drain clearance easy and quick.
The use of CCTV in drain clearances and survey
is quite simple in practice and theory. CCTV drain clearances use
closed-circuit television cameras. When using this approach in drain clearances
you feed a small CCTV camera down the piping network by use of a cable attached
to the camera. The images captured on the CCTV camera are transmitted on to a
large handheld television device. This television screen allows you to see the
interior of the drain as you maneuver the camera towards the potential cause of
a blockage.
If the cause of blockage is not easily
identifiable in the first process, then the images captured can be stored for
further analysis. This implies that it is possible to do the analysis of the
drain from the comfort of your working office later on so as to get a clear
picture of the problem.
Benefits of using CCTV
for drain clearances and survey
• Using CCTV drain clearance and survey allows
you to determine the source of a blockage faster than would be the case if
traditional methods were used. This saves you time, which you can dedicate to
the actual clearance work.
• Traditional survey and drain clearance methods
often involved extensive excavation, and the process can cost you a lot of
money. But with the use of CCTV technology, such excavation is avoided and thus
cutting the cost that you may incur when carrying out drain clearances
• Initially, plumbers often used to try various
guessed solutions in cases where they could not easily determine the cause of
blockage. But with the use of CCTV, the precise unblocking solution can be
easily chosen thus avoiding the expenses and time, which often went into the
use of the trial-and-error method.
• The merits of using CCTV is drain clearances
are not only limited to unblocking of drains. If you are purchasing a new
residential or commercial property, there is no need to excavate the drains in
order to assess their integrity. CCTV surveys provide a simple process of
assessing the integrity of your drains without excavation and the process is
akin to that used when seeking the cause of blockages.
