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The freeholder tried to split the £4,500 repair cost between all four flats. Elena went back to the CCTV footage. It showed the collapse was directly beneath her section of pipe, but the law (the Water Industry Act 1991) states shared drains serving multiple properties are the freeholder’s responsibility. She sent the relevant clip to a solicitor. The freeholder backed down.

Elena called her insurance, but they said shared drains were the responsibility of the freeholder. The freeholder, a distant property company, took three days to respond. In that time, Elena found a local specialist: , based near the Hammersmith flyover.

When Elena bought the ground-floor flat in a converted Victorian townhouse near Fulham Palace Road, the surveyor’s report mentioned only “limited drainage inspection.” She didn’t think much of it. The flat had high ceilings, a compact garden, and was a short walk to the Thames. Perfect. cctv drain survey hammersmith and fulham

The engineer, a woman named Carla, arrived with a van marked “CCTV Drain Surveys.” She explained the process simply: “We send a rod-mounted camera down your drain. It records everything – cracks, blockages, collapses. The video is evidence. No guessing.”

Panic set in.

The pipe had partially caved in, creating a shelf of broken clay and brick. Wastewater couldn’t flow to the main sewer under Fulham Palace Road. Worse, tree roots from a nearby London plane tree had invaded the joint, forming a dense, knotted mass Carla called “a root dam.”

Carla lifted the manhole cover in Elena’s garden – a small, brick-lined shaft filled with murky water. She fed in the camera, its light cutting through the gloom. Elena watched the screen. The freeholder tried to split the £4,500 repair

Six weeks after moving in, the problems began.