Clogged Sewer Main and Broken Pipe Found in Bedford

Slow drains are easy to ignore. You plunge, maybe pour something down the drain, and hope for the best. But when the whole sewer main backs up, that's a different problem - and it usually means something is going on underground that you can't see without the right equipment.

That's exactly what we were dealing with on this Bedford job. The sewer main was clogged and not moving. First step was clearing it out with our drain cleaning equipment so we could actually get a camera through the line. Once we had flow restored, we ran our video camera inspection from the cleanout right at the house and sent it all the way through the underground line.

What the camera picked up was a broken pipe buried under the yard. You can see the root intrusion on the camera feed - those roots had pushed their way into a crack in the pipe and set up camp. This is one of the most common reasons sewer lines fail in older neighborhoods, and it's something you'd never find just by snaking a drain. After we had a clear picture of what we were dealing with, we used our Gen-Eye locator to walk the yard and pinpoint exactly where underground that break was located. No guessing. No digging blind.

The homeowner now knows exactly what's going on and where. That's the whole point of combining drain cleaning with a camera inspection and line locating - you get real answers, not just a temporary fix. Whether it ends up needing a repair or a full line replacement, they're working with facts instead of guesses.

If your drains are slow, gurgling, or backing up - especially if it's happening across multiple fixtures - don't wait it out. That's usually a sign something bigger is going on in the main line.