Buying a Home in Waco? Get the Sewer Camera Inspection.

A general home inspection is a checklist marvel — roof to foundation, a hundred line items. But there's a blind spot built into every one of them: the inspector runs water and confirms it drains. What the inside of the sewer line looks like — the pipe you're about to own all the way to the city tap — never appears in the report.

Central Texas housing stock is full of clay and cast iron sewer lines from the 50s through the 80s, sitting in clay soil that swells and shrinks with every wet-dry cycle. Add the mature live oaks that make older Waco neighborhoods beautiful, and you have the three ingredients of sewer failure: brittle pipe, moving soil, and thirsty roots.

A full sewer replacement runs five figures. As a buyer, that's exactly the kind of number you want discovered during your option period — when it's negotiating leverage — rather than eight months after closing, when it's just your problem.

We run an HD camera from the cleanout to the city tap, recording everything: root intrusion at the joints, bellies holding water, offsets, breaks, and the pipe material itself. The camera head carries a locator beacon, so anything we find gets marked on the surface with its depth. You get the footage, a written plain-English assessment, and — if repairs are warranted — a real quote you can hand to your agent.

It takes about an hour, costs a flat fee we quote on the phone, and schedules around option periods. Of all the due-diligence money a buyer spends, this is the line item that most often pays for itself a hundred times over. (254) 366-8281.