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Shoutout to the old timer who told me to stop snaking drains blind and use a $12 camera first
Got called to a house in Mesa last month for a slow kitchen drain and I was about to run my auger 25 feet like always, but the guy training me said to scope it first with one of those cheap USB cameras. Turned out the clog was 6 feet in and there was a broken fitting right past it, so snaking would have punched a hole in the pipe and turned a $150 job into a $900 repair. Anybody else here carry a cheap scope on every call or am I late to this?
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phoenix_carter19d ago
Tbh the camera isn't what saved you there, it's the fact that you actually looked before you ran the cable. A cheap USB scope will show you a clog but it won't always show you a cracked fitting that's still holding together, especially in an older line with years of junk built up on the walls. The pic gets fuzzy fast once you're past a bend or two, and the light on those 12 dollar ones is weak. People lean on them like they're a full inspection camera and then miss stuff that a hand and a little experience would catch. Just don't get lazy and treat the screen like gospel, pull the trap and feel the pipe too.
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