How fast can you get to the east side of Thousand Oaks?

Often the same day. It is a ten minute drive. Say what it is doing when you call and Danny will give you a time straight away.

Does the oak tree ordinance affect a sewer repair?

It can. The city protects oaks and the root zone around them, so a trench cannot always take the shortest route. We locate the line from the surface first and plan the dig around the trees before anything is priced.

Yes. You watch it with us and we send you the recording. It is useful for a buyer, a seller, an insurer or the next plumber.

What is a cleanout, and why does my house not have one?

A capped pipe outside, usually near the foundation, that gives direct access to the sewer line. Many houses from the sixties and seventies were built without one. Adding one is a half-day job and makes every future clearing quicker and cleaner.

Can the line be fixed without digging up the yard?

Sometimes a single bad section can be repaired through one small hole. A line that has failed along its length is replaced, and that means a trench. We tell you which you have from the video, and price it before anything is dug.

Thousand Oaks · Sewer camera & repair

Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair
in Thousand Oaks

Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair in Thousand Oaks, ten minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. Most of the sewer lines in the Conejo Valley went in between 1965 and 1985. A camera is how you find out what yours looks like without digging up the yard to see.

Call (805) 330-3111 Request a visit

Danny picks up when he can, and calls back the same day. You get the price before we start, and nobody here is on commission. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.

Licensed CSLB #339618

Insured Bonded and insured

Since 1977 49 years, two generations

On Google 5.0 stars

From the shop Ten minutes

Permits City of Thousand Oaks Building & Safety.

Guarantee One year on our labor. Thirty days on drain clearing.

License CSLB #339618

In Thousand Oaks

What this job looks like
in Thousand Oaks

A camera inspection in Thousand Oaks answers a question the oak ordinance makes expensive to guess at: where exactly the line has failed, and whether a repair can stay out of a protected root zone. We run the camera from the cleanout to the street, you watch it with us, and the transmitter on the camera head lets us mark the fault and its depth on the surface so the hole goes in the right place the first time.

Streets and pockets we work in: Lang Ranch, Sunset Hills, North Ranch, the Westlake side of the boulevard, the older tracts off Erbes Road.

The drain backs up every few months

Sewer laterals & roots

We put a camera down first so you can see which joint has gone. Depending on what is there it might be jetting, a repair to one section, or replacing the run. Whatever is growing over the line has to be worked around.

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The job

How it goes

The camera goes in through a cleanout and runs the length of the line to the street. You watch it on the screen with us. It shows roots at a joint, a section that has settled and holds water, a crack, an offset where two pipes no longer meet, and the scale inside old cast iron. A transmitter on the camera head lets us mark the exact spot on the surface, and the depth, so if something has to be dug up the hole goes in the right place the first time.

Three times it is worth doing. When a main line has backed up more than once. Before you buy a house, because a sewer replacement is the biggest surprise a home inspection misses. And before a remodel adds a bathroom to a line that may not be up to it.

The repair depends on what the camera finds. One bad joint is a spot repair, a hole the size of a table. A house with no cleanout gets one, so the next clearing does not go through a toilet. A line that is failing along its length gets replaced. In Thousand Oaks the oak tree ordinance decides where a trench can go, and it is better to know that before the machine is on the lawn.

Call if

What you notice,
and what it usually is

The main backs up every few months

Roots or a break the cable keeps opening and the pipe keeps closing.

A wet or sunken patch in the lawn

A break underground. We locate it from the surface before digging.

Sewer smell in the yard or a bathroom

A cracked line or a dry trap. The camera settles which.

You are buying a house built before 1990

The line is thirty to sixty years old. Look before you close.

Adding a bathroom

The line has to carry it. A camera and a look at the slope answers that.

Work in Thousand Oaks

From the invoice book,
names left off

November 2025

A main line blocked with flushable wipes

Snaked the main from several points and pulled out a large quantity of wipes. Another house the same month: roots in the main, cut out with a chain knocker and checked with the camera.

How it goes

Four steps, and you have the price at step three

01
You call

Danny picks up when he can, and calls back the same day. Tell him what it is doing and where.
02
We look

We come out, find the cause and show you. In plain words, with the part in our hand where there is one.
03
You get a price

Before anything starts. Repairs are our time plus parts, and the bigger jobs get a written bid. Nobody here is on commission.
04
We do the work

Small repairs are usually done the same visit. Bigger jobs get a start date and a number of days, and we hold to it. Done to code, permitted where it needs it, the house left the way we found it.

Common questions

Sewer camera & repair in Thousand Oaks: things people ask

How fast can you get to the east side of Thousand Oaks?: Often the same day. It is a ten minute drive. Say what it is doing when you call and Danny will give you a time straight away.
Does the oak tree ordinance affect a sewer repair?: It can. The city protects oaks and the root zone around them, so a trench cannot always take the shortest route. We locate the line from the surface first and plan the dig around the trees before anything is priced.
Do I get the video?: Yes. You watch it with us and we send you the recording. It is useful for a buyer, a seller, an insurer or the next plumber.
What is a cleanout, and why does my house not have one?: A capped pipe outside, usually near the foundation, that gives direct access to the sewer line. Many houses from the sixties and seventies were built without one. Adding one is a half-day job and makes every future clearing quicker and cleaner.
Can the line be fixed without digging up the yard?: Sometimes a single bad section can be repaired through one small hole. A line that has failed along its length is replaced, and that means a trench. We tell you which you have from the video, and price it before anything is dug.

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What people say

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“Dan's Plumbing did excellent job for us replacing our broken water pressure regulator. Quick response, good price, great quality of work. Will hire them again.”

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Sewer camera & repair · Thousand Oaks

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it’s doing

Describe the symptom and you will usually have an answer in two minutes. You get the price before any work starts. Ten minutes from the shop. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.

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Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair in Thousand Oaks

The drain backs up every few months

How it goes

The main backs up every few months

A wet or sunken patch in the lawn

Sewer smell in the yard or a bathroom

You are buying a house built before 1990

Adding a bathroom

A main line blocked with flushable wipes

You call

We look

You get a price

We do the work

Tell Danny what it’s doing

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Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair
in Thousand Oaks

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