You can't fix what you can't see. So we look first.
When a sewer problem starts, the guesses start with it. It's probably roots. It might be a break. Could be the city's side. Every guess comes with a different price tag, and in La Mesa's older neighborhoods, where clay lines have been underground since the trolley days, the range between the cheapest guess and the most expensive one is enormous. There's exactly one way to stop guessing, and it's to look.
A sewer camera inspection sends a small camera down the line from your cleanout to the street, live video the whole way. Roots reaching in at the joints show up on screen. So does the grease, the scale, a low spot where water sits, a crack, an offset where two sections shifted, or a line that's honestly in fine shape and just needed clearing. You can watch it live, and the recording sticks around, which matters when a decision gets big. Footage is proof, not a pitch.
It matters most at the big moments. Before approving a repair with a lot of digits. Before buying an older La Mesa house with an original line. Before accepting recurring backups as a fact of life. Ten minutes of video replaces years of wondering, and every choice that follows is yours to make with the evidence in hand.
"The camera saved us. We almost bought a house with a collapsed lateral we'd never have seen."
