On St George's Hill and the Fairmile side the private runs are long, the plots are large and the pipework is a mix of 1930s clay and recent plastic from rebuilds. A survey maps the whole line and finds the one joint under the drive that keeps catching everything.
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 Weybridge
- 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 Weybridge
Two rivers, a Victorian town centre and the big estates on St George's Hill: long runs, old clay and a water table with two sources.
Weybridge, KT13, sits where the Wey meets the Thames, with a Victorian and Edwardian centre around Monument Green, interwar streets towards Hersham, and the private estates of St George’s Hill above it all. Two rivers mean a water table with two sources, and the ground under the town centre is saturated for much of the winter. Old clay runs with any dropped joint take on silt every wet season, and the first storm of the autumn is when we hear from Weybridge.
The honest version of a lot of those calls is that the private drain is clear and the surface water system is backed up because the rivers are high. We will say so rather than clear a clean pipe. When the drain is the problem, the camera finds the joint with the silt behind it and lining it stops the annual repeat.
Up the hill it is a different job: long private runs under big plots and gated drives, a mix of 1930s clay and plastic from recent rebuilds, and a blockage that can be thirty metres from the nearest gully. We survey the full line, clear from the correct chamber and reline rather than dig, because nobody on St George’s Hill wants a trench across the lawn. We cover Weybridge, Hersham and Addlestone around the clock from the Walton side.
We cover all of Weybridge (KT13) — from Monument Green, St George's Hill, Brooklands and across Walton-on-Thames, Addlestone, Hersham. Being genuinely local means we already know what Weybridge's drains are made of, and how fast we can be at your door.More about drains in Weybridge →