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The main backs up every few months
Roots or a break the cable keeps opening and the pipe keeps closing.
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Sewer camera inspection
and sewer repair
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. Say what it is doing and you will usually have a rough answer, and a price, in two minutes.
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
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A wet or sunken patch in the lawn
A break underground. We locate it from the surface before digging.
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Sewer smell in the yard or a bathroom
A cracked line or a dry trap. The camera settles which.
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You are buying a house built before 1990
The line is thirty to sixty years old. Look before you close.
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Adding a bathroom
The line has to carry it. A camera and a look at the slope answers that.
Say what it is doing when you call. Most of these get narrowed down in two minutes on the phone.
How it goes
Four steps, and you have the price at step three
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You call
Danny picks up when he can, and calls back the same day. Tell him what it is doing and where.
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We look
We come out, find the cause and show you. In plain words, with the part in our hand where there is one.
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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.
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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
Things people ask about sewer camera inspection & sewer repair
- 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.
- Who owns the sewer line?
- You do, from the house to the connection at the street or the main. The district owns the main. Almost every sewer repair on a house is the owner's.
Google reviews
What people say
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“Dan is consistent. Professional, on time, only does what is needed, experienced, easy to work with, clean, and smart.”
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Where we do this
Close to the shop
The shop is in Westlake Village. Everything we cover is about ten minutes from it, so same day is often realistic.
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Zip codes 91361, 91362, 91301, 91377. Just outside? Call and ask.
Often goes with this
Related work
- Drain cleaning Kitchen sinks, tubs, showers, toilets, laundry lines and the main line. Cleared, tested, and if it keeps coming back we tell you why.
- Leak detection & repair Finding where the water is coming from before anything is opened up. Walls, ceilings, floors, slabs and yards.
- Kitchen & bathroom remodel plumbing Rough-in and finish plumbing for kitchens, bathrooms and additions. We work to the drawings, coordinate with your other trades and pull the permits.
Request a visit
Leave your details, and Danny calls you back
Your name, your number and a line about what it is doing. It goes straight to Danny's phone and he calls back to set a time, usually the same day. If it is leaking right now, skip the form and call (805) 330-3111.
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Sewer camera & repair
Tell Danny what
it’s doing
Describe the symptom and you will usually have an answer in two minutes. You get the price before any work starts. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.