A camera answers the question everyone actually has, which is whether this is a clog or a collapsed line under the sidewalk. Those two things cost very different amounts of money. We put a camera down the cleanout and look, and you watch the same screen we do.
Root intrusion at the joints — almost always the old clay tile, and almost always where two lengths meet.
Cracks, offset joints, and bellies where the line has settled and standing water never clears.
Grease and scale narrowing a pipe that looks fine from the cleanout.
The house trap, which in a lot of Brooklyn housing stock is the actual problem and has been since somebody paved over it.
And where it all is. The locator gives us the position and the depth, which is the difference between opening six feet of sidewalk and opening thirty.
Plenty of what we camera is not a broken pipe. It is grease, scale or root hair, and it needs cleaning rather than excavation.
We do that work too — see sewer cleaning and hydro jetting. The camera tells you which rung you are on before anybody quotes you a repair.
Camera the line before you close. The sewer lateral running under the sidewalk belongs to the property, and it becomes yours at the closing table along with everything wrong with it.
It is the cheapest inspection in the transaction and the one most often skipped.
We tell you before the camera goes in, not after. A sewer camera inspection is a known quantity and we will quote it on the phone.
What we will not quote on the phone is the repair, because nobody can price a break they have not seen, and a phone estimate is a guess you end up paying for.
All five boroughs — Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Recurring backups, slow drains across several fixtures, gurgling toilets, or a wet patch in the yard that never dries. Any one of those is worth a camera before it is worth an excavator.
Call (718) 965-3500 or book a camera inspection. A person answers.
What we can show you in writing before any work starts.
Yes. Lady Liberty Contracting Corp is fully licensed, bonded and insured for water main and sewer work throughout New York City. Certificates of insurance and licence details are available on request before any work begins.
The work is carried out under a New York City Licensed Master Plumber on our own staff, not subcontracted to another firm. That matters on permitted work, because the DEP and DOT filings are pulled under the licence of the plumber responsible for the job.
Yes. Every installation and repair carries a 10-year workmanship guarantee. If an issue arises that relates to our work, we come back and put it right.
We handle them. Permit filing, inspections and sign-off are managed in-house as part of the job, including street-opening permits and the restoration that follows.
Yes. Water main and sewer replacements are large, unplanned expenses, and payment options are available. See financing and flexible payment options.
We work on the water and sewer lines that connect a property to the city main: service line repairs and replacements, sewer laterals, excavation, DEP and DOT permitted work, and the street and sidewalk restoration afterwards. That covers residential, commercial and municipal properties across all five boroughs. We do not take on interior plumbing — in-house leaks, fixtures, heating or boiler work.
