The park edge of TW12 has mature trees and the oldest clay in the area, and a camera run here nearly always finds a joint with roots in it. Knowing which joint, and whose garden it is under, is what stops the blockage coming back every autumn.
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 Hampton Hill
- 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 Hampton Hill
A High Street of Victorian terraces whose shared back-garden runs were laid once, in clay, and never looked at again.
Hampton Hill is the TW12 High Street and its side roads, running from Fulwell up to the Bushy Park gate. Above ground it is independent shops, a theatre and some of the nicest Victorian terraces in the borough. Below ground it is clay, laid in the 1880s and 1890s, shared between neighbours, and visited by the roots of every lime tree on the street.
What we see most here is the shared back-garden run. A Victorian terrace drains each house into a single pipe that runs along the rear gardens before it turns towards the sewer, so the house nearest the obstruction gets the overflow and the house that caused it may never know. Clearing it is quick. Explaining whose pipe it is takes longer, and we are happy to do both.
The flats above the High Street shops add a second pattern: small-bore pipes, several kitchens on one stack, and grease. That stack blocks on a timetable until it is jetted properly, and we would genuinely rather jet it once than rod it four times. We cover every Hampton Hill street, around the clock, from the Hampton and Teddington side of our patch.
We cover all of Hampton Hill (TW12) — from the High Street, Bushy Park (Hampton Hill Gate), Hampton Hill Playhouse and across Hampton, Teddington, Fulwell. Being genuinely local means we already know what Hampton Hill's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Hampton Hill →