In Feltham a survey does two things at once: it finds the fault, and it establishes whose drain the fault is in. On shared branches serving four houses that second answer is the one that stops the argument, and a dated report carries far more weight than a conversation over the fence.
A CCTV drain survey is exactly what it sounds like: we put a camera down your drains and watch, in glorious detail, what four decades of plumbing decisions look like from the inside. To be clear, we would do this bit for free. It’s the best television in the trade. Narrating a drain run like a nature documentary (“here we see the fatberg in its natural habitat”) is a professional perk.
What you get is the useful part: a plain-English report of exactly what’s down there, where it is, and what (if anything) actually needs doing. No jargon without translation, no invented “urgent works”. If the drain is healthy, the report says so.
When a survey earns its money:
- Repeat blockages. If the same drain keeps blocking, something structural is causing it: roots, a dropped joint, scale, or a slumped section. The camera finds the cause, so you stop paying to treat the symptom.
- Buying a house in the TW area. Much of the local stock has original clay drains from the Victorian era or the 1930s. A £250 survey before exchange can save you a £3,000+ excavation after. Lenders and insurers increasingly ask for one.
- Landlords and letting agents. A dated survey report is clean evidence of drain condition between tenancies.
What it costs: a standard domestic survey runs £150–£350 depending on how much drain there is to inspect, and homebuyer surveys with a full written report start around £250. Fixed price, agreed before we start. If the survey finds something that needs fixing, the survey fee is credited against repair work we do, so you never pay twice to learn the same fact.
What to do right now in Feltham
- A survey is a planned visit, not an emergency. If water is actually backing up right now, call us about the blockage first.
- Have a rough idea where your manholes or inspection covers are. If you don't know, that's fine, finding them is part of the job.
- Buying a house? Book the survey before exchange, not after. A collapsed drain is the buyer's problem the moment you own it.
CCTV Drain Survey help, local to Feltham
Postwar estates on shallow shared runs, plus newer infill builds squeezed onto old drainage.
Feltham is postwar Britain in drainage form. The estates that went up through the 40s, 50s and 60s around Hanworth Park and Bedfont were built quickly, and their drains were too: shallow runs, long shared branches, and inspection chambers that half a century of garden landscaping has quietly buried. A good portion of our Feltham visits start with finding a manhole cover under someone’s decking. (We enjoy this. It’s basically archaeology.)
Shared runs mean shared problems. On the older terraced rows one household’s wet-wipe habit becomes four households’ blocked drain, and the blockage often sits under a neighbour’s garden rather than yours. We’re used to untangling whose drain is whose, and the survey camera settles arguments faster than any fence-line conversation.
Newer Feltham adds a different flavour: infill developments and flats near the station connect modern plastic pipework into drainage that was already working hard in 1965. The junctions where new meets old are where things snag. Wherever your blockage sits in TW13 or TW14, we cover Feltham, Hanworth and Bedfont 24/7 and we arrive already interested.
We cover all of Feltham (TW13, TW14) — from Feltham High Street, Hanworth Park, Bedfont Lakes and across Hanworth, Bedfont, Ashford. Being genuinely local means we already know what Feltham's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Feltham →