Clearing a drain tells you it is open right now. A camera tells you why it clogged and whether that is going to happen again.
A cable or a jetter answers one question: is the line open. A camera answers a different and often more useful one: what is actually going on inside that pipe.
The camera shows what the line is actually made of — clay, cast iron, Orangeburg, PVC — which matters because each behaves differently and some are far more prone to root intrusion, corrosion or collapse than others.
A belly is a section that has sagged low enough to hold standing water and catch debris permanently, even when the rest of the line is clear. It clogs on a predictable schedule and no amount of cabling fixes it, because the pipe's shape itself is the problem.
Joints that have shifted apart slightly are where roots get in and where solids catch on the lip of the offset. A camera shows exactly which joint, which is what makes a targeted spot repair possible instead of guessing at the whole line's condition.
From a hairline crack to a fully collapsed section, the camera shows the extent of physical damage to the pipe, which is the difference between a cleaning problem and a repair problem.
A camera with a sonde locator can mark the exact depth and horizontal position of a problem from above ground, which turns excavation from a guess into a precisely marked dig.
A camera inspection is what separates "clear it again and hope" from an actual decision — keep clearing it periodically, schedule a spot repair, or plan a full replacement — based on what the pipe is actually doing rather than how it happened to behave today.
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