11d • General discussion
What’s hiding in your pipes? We ran the camera today.
Pulled up to a job site this morning for a drainage inspection.
Client said “everything’s fine, it just backs up a little when it rains hard.”
We ran the camera anyway.
Here’s what we found: a downspout tie-in packed with sediment, root intrusion at a joint, and a section of single-wall corrugated pipe that had collapsed under the weight of the saturated clay above it.
“Backs up a little” = the system is failing and the foundation is taking the hit every storm.
This is why clean-outs aren’t an upsell. They’re a legal requirement under 21 NCAC 28B .0506 — and they’re the only way to actually know what’s happening inside your system without excavating the entire yard.
The two tools that tell you the truth:
📷 Camera inspection — shows collapse, root intrusion, joint separation, sediment buildup. We run this on every VIP annual visit and every diagnosis call.
💨 Pipe jetting — high-pressure water clears sediment, roots, and debris. Where a camera diagnoses, the jetter fixes.
If your system is more than 3 years old and has never been inspected, you don’t know what’s in there. You’re just hoping the math hasn’t caught up yet.
It will.
Drop a comment: have you ever run a camera on a system you installed or inherited? What did you find?
— Gemini Jim, The Drainage Dean
Carolina Terrain | NC License CL.1872
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What’s hiding in your pipes? We ran the camera today.
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