Case Study: Inspection Camera Locates Foreign Obstruction

The lateral line at a Tallahassee residential property was blocked, and repeated snaking failed to clear the line. That’s when McNeill Plumbing arrived, with their Gen-Eye video inspection equipment from General Pipe Cleaners.McNeill’s crew ran the camera between the street and house clean-outs, and quickly discovered a baseball bat in the line. “Someone intentionally put it there,” says Special Projects Manager Keith Walker. “The Gen-Eye image was so sharp that we could clearly read the logo on the bat itself.”Gen-Eye systems offer plumbing and drain cleaning professionals everything necessary to troubleshoot 2- through 10-inch lines, including an on-screen distance counter, date and time