The camera is the only thing that tells the truth about a cast iron pipe. You get the footage, and every quote we give starts here.
The two houses on the same street, built the same year by the same builder, almost never have the same pipe inside. One is fine for another decade. The next one is worn through in three spots. You cannot tell which is which from the driveway, and neither can anyone who quotes you without looking.
That is the whole reason we run a camera before we say a word about price.
Cast iron fails from the inside out. The section of pipe you can see under a sink can look perfectly solid while the horizontal run under your slab is eaten up. Age tells you a pipe is a suspect. It does not tell you the verdict.
Even the visible ends mislead. The top of a horizontal pipe often looks close to new because waste does not sit against it. The bottom, where water runs all day, is where the damage hides. Only a camera traveling the length of the pipe sees the part that matters.
We push a self-leveling camera head through your drain lines and watch the feed in real time. The footage answers the questions that decide your whole repair.
The camera answers whether the trough along the bottom is a thinning or a hole. That single fact usually decides lining versus replacement. We cover the mechanism in why cast iron fails in Southwest Florida.
You will see the rust scale flaking off the walls and where it is snagging waste. Scale is often lineable. It tells us the pipe is corroding but may still be sound underneath. More on that in cast iron spalling explained.
Separated hubs, sags that hold standing water, and crushed sections all show up plainly. These are the findings that move a job from lining to replacement.
This is not our video. It is yours. You get the recording, and you get to see the exact spots we are talking about when we hand you a quote.
Most homeowners come to us worried about being upsold on a five-figure job they cannot verify. The footage takes that worry off the table. When we point at a channeled main and recommend replacement, you are looking at the same screen we are. When the pipe is sound enough to line, you see that too.
A quote given without a camera is a guess dressed up as a number. A lining company guessing blind will quote lining. A repipe company guessing blind will quote a repipe. Both are selling you their one product, not diagnosing your pipe.
We quote after the camera because the footage is what makes the quote honest. Sometimes it saves you money by ruling out a repipe you were told you needed. Sometimes it confirms the bad news. Either way you are deciding on facts, not a sales pitch. The paths themselves are laid out in lining vs. replacement.
A 1970 slab home near McGregor, flagged on a 4-point before a sale. A repipe outfit had already quoted a full replacement. The owner asked us to camera it before he signed. The footage showed one bad ten foot section and a whole lot of pipe that was still solid. He did not need a full repipe. He needed one section addressed. The camera is the only reason he found that out.
You do not need to tear anything open for us to look. The camera travels the existing drain lines through cleanouts and fixture access already in your home. Nothing gets cut, nothing gets demolished, and the pipe stays exactly as it is. The whole point is to gather facts before a single dollar of repair is spent. Most inspections take under an hour, and you walk away knowing whether you are dealing with a lining job, a replacement, or a pipe that is fine for now and just needs watching.
Send us your 4-point report and we will tell you what it means before we ever bring a camera out. When it is time to look inside, you will see everything we see. Upload your report here.
Upload the report or a photo of the pipe. We will read it and tell you what it actually means for your pipes - repair or replace, honestly, no site visit needed. We respond within one business day.