Drain Clearances

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.