The defect sealed from inside the existing pipe, and documented either side, so in five years the repair is something you can show rather than something you remember.
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Relining is a genuinely good fix. A resin sleeve goes through the pipe you already have and cures hard, the fault is sealed continuously, and nothing above ground is touched. The line works, the garden is intact, and everybody is satisfied.
And then it disappears, because it is underground. The day after the job, a lined section looks exactly like any other pipe to anybody who has not seen the footage, which by then is everybody.
That is fine right up until it matters. A buyer's inspection notices a lined section and asks what it was for. A blockage recurs three years later and a different plumber needs to know what was already done to that run. In both cases the honest answer is a file, and the expensive answer is starting again.
So we film before, film after, and write down what was done and why. It costs nothing extra and it turns a repair you have to describe into a repair you can hand somebody.
See whether you still have the footage. If nobody gave you any, that is worth knowing before somebody quotes the same section again.
Underground, and identical to any other pipe to anybody who has not seen the footage. There is nothing on the surface to show that a repair was ever done.
Which is an advantage while you live there and a problem the moment anybody else needs to understand the property.
That is the whole argument of this page. The work is durable and the record of it is not, unless somebody keeps one.
The line is cleaned and filmed, a resin-saturated liner is drawn through it, and air pressure holds it against the inside wall while it cures.
When it has set you have a continuous jointless pipe inside the original, slightly smaller in bore and considerably smoother.
All of it is done through an existing access point. No trench, no reinstatement, and nothing above the pipe disturbed.
A buyer's inspection finds a lined section and asks what it was for. Without an answer, the question becomes a concern, and a concern in a negotiation is a number.
With the footage and a written account, it becomes what it actually is: a documented repair on a known defect, done properly, with a design life ahead of it.
The same document that made you comfortable buying the house is the one that makes the next person comfortable buying it from you.
The next plumber needs to know what was already tried on that run. Without a record they start from nothing, which means filming it again and possibly proposing what has already been done.
With the record, they start from the previous survey and look at what changed. That is a shorter and cheaper visit.
It is also how you find out whether the original repair held, which is worth knowing on its own.
Older lines here were laid in short sections with a joint every metre or so, and each of those joints is somewhere the ground can move a fraction and open a gap.
That gap is what roots find. They do not break sound pipe, they enter at an opening that was already there.
A cured liner has no joints along the run it covers, so there is nothing left to enter through. That is the durable version rather than cutting this season's roots out.
Where a section has crushed, because a liner needs an intact host to take its shape from. And where a length has settled so water sits in it, because a liner keeps the settlement.
Those two account for almost every case on this fleet where we recommend excavation over lining.
It is rarely the whole run. A short opening on the bad length with a liner over the remainder is the usual shape of the job.
Every point where another line enters the run gets covered by the liner and then reopened from the inside after curing, using a cutter run down the pipe.
That step is standard and it is checked on camera before anybody packs up. You should expect to see each junction open in the after footage.
On a property that has been added to over the years, those junctions are also the places where later work was cut into the original line, so they are worth studying on the before footage.
Start with length. Quotes that look thousands apart are frequently pricing different amounts of pipe, and neither has said so plainly.
Then reinstatement, which is where an excavation quote quietly stops. Backfill is not the same as a finished surface.
Then diagnosis. If one wants to line ten metres and the other wants to dig two, they disagree about what is wrong, and that is the conversation worth having.
It is a by-product of doing the job properly rather than an add-on. The camera goes down before to decide the work and after to confirm it, so the recordings exist either way.
Handing them over is a decision rather than a cost. We hand ours over as a matter of course, whatever they show.
A plumber who films a line and keeps the footage has kept the part of the job that was worth most to you.
With the property papers, alongside the certificates and the survey, rather than in a folder of receipts. It is a document about the building, not a transaction.
A file on a phone is not a record. Put it somewhere it will still be findable when the phone has been replaced twice.
If the house is sold, it goes to the buyer with everything else, and it is one of the few documents that genuinely helps a sale.
Fixed price agreed before anything starts. These are indicative 2026 ranges.
Deducted from the job if you proceed, and the footage is yours either way.
Where one short length is genuinely the whole problem.
Priced on length and access rather than by the hour.
Reopened from inside once the liner has cured.
Before, after, and what was done. Not an optional extra.
Not only the defect. The length and the bends decide whether a liner is the right method at all.
A figure built on what the camera showed, with the recording behind it rather than a description.
The pipe prepared, the liner installed and cured in place, and any junctions reopened.
Second recording, written record, both handed to you, because in five years that is the whole story of this repair.
Get the line filmed before anybody breaks ground. It regularly changes both the method and the number.
Call 1300 381 569A resin sleeve is drawn through the pipe you already have and cured hard in place, using the old pipe as a mould. The defect is sealed and any joint that had opened is bridged, leaving a continuous surface with no entry point. Nothing gets excavated.
Because a buried repair is invisible the day after it is done. If somebody inspects this property in five years, all they will see is a pipe. Footage from before, footage from after and a written record of what was done is the difference between a repair you can show and a repair you have to describe.
It does at sale, when a buyer's inspection finds a lined section and asks what it is, and it does when a recurring problem comes back and somebody needs to know what was already tried. Both of those are years away and both are cheaper with a file.
The material is rated at around fifty years. More usefully, the repair is continuous, so there is no joint left at the point that failed.
By a couple of millimetres, and it rarely matters. The new inner surface is smoother than the original, so flow generally ends up the same or better.
No. A pipe that has collapsed, lost its shape or dropped out of grade needs that section replaced instead, and the footage settles which of those you have before you commit.
A patch over a single defect is $1,500 to $2,500. A full section is $4,000 to $9,000 depending on length and access. The camera inspection first is $250 to $450 and comes off the job if you proceed.
Tell us what the camera found, or ask us to put one down first. And if a previous plumber gave you footage, hang onto it, because it is genuinely useful.
Sealed from the inside, documented either side, and the file is yours.
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