| Drains and pipes of all kinds usually get clogged up | | | | 600 millimetres in diameter can also be inspected using |
| eventually. They also deteriorate over time and require | | | | larger camera systems. |
| maintenance eventually. Any industry that waits until | | | | There is a limit to the length of travel that a system |
| this happens is not staying ahead of the game, and is | | | | can cope with. This is usually around the 300 metre |
| therefore not keeping an eye on efficient working | | | | mark from the point of pipe entry. However, during that |
| practices. This is why regular drain and sewer camera | | | | 300 metre run there is a lot of useful work that a pipe |
| inspection routines New York are not only necessary, | | | | inspection camera system New York can do. And a |
| but essential in order to maintain safe, consistent and | | | | new entry point can be established following the first |
| continued operations. | | | | run to allow very long lengths of drain and sewer pipes |
| Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras are used for | | | | to be inspected. |
| pipe inspection work. The technology is now so good | | | | The camera systems are not generally mindless |
| that the pictures obtained of the inside of pipes and | | | | robots. The more advanced systems can provide |
| drains are clear enough to easily identify any damage, | | | | clear, sharp full colour pictures in very high resolution. |
| or even any potential future damage, in the interior part | | | | They can also pan and tilt to give close up pictures of |
| of the pipe. Any build up of debris or dirt can also | | | | any particular detail, providing a full 360 degree |
| clearly be seen to allow the right approach of cleaning | | | | horizontal vision capability. |
| to take place later. | | | | Most of the modern state of the art pipe inspection |
| Surveying pipe work in this way can save a company | | | | camera systems New York are explosion proof. Gas |
| money by letting them have first hand knowledge of | | | | can build up inside pipe work, and the camera system |
| the condition of every inch of their drains and sewers. | | | | is powered by electricity. Should a spark initiate an |
| It can eliminate or at least minimise the kind of nasty | | | | explosion, the equipment should survive it and be able |
| surprise that usually accompanies an unexpected | | | | to continue to relay a valuable record of what is going |
| breakdown. | | | | on. |
| It isn't just large bore drains and sewers that pipe | | | | Drain and sewer camera inspection work has never |
| inspection work can be carried out on either. Mini | | | | been easier, thanks to modern technology. Now there |
| explosion proof camera systems have been | | | | is hardly a pipe or drain that can not be examined |
| developed that can allow a remote camera to travel | | | | internally to save a company time and money from |
| within a pipe of just one inch or 25 millimetres internal | | | | unexpected breakdowns. |
| diameter. Pipes going all the way up to 24 inches or | | | | |