A sewer inspection can end a deal that didn’t need to end, or it can miss something that costs your client twenty thousand dollars six months after closing. Both of those are your problem, not the inspector’s.
Here’s how we work, so you can decide whether we’re the right people to send.
Our report isn’t a sales document
We don’t replace sewer lines. We don’t dig. We don’t do repairs of any kind. We clean, jet, mill out scale, cut roots and inspect with a camera — and that’s the whole list.
Which means when our report says a line is serviceable, we aren’t declining a job we could have sold. There was never a job there. And when it says a line has a genuine defect, we aren’t quoting for the fix either, because we don’t do the fix.
There’s a saying in the drain cleaning trade: if you do maintenance and repair, you cannot stay honest. We decided a long time ago to take that seriously. It’s the reason a good many agents in this metro use us and nobody else.
What our Realtors Say…
Our Drain and Sewer is the ONLY resource we recommend to our clients for drain cleaning and analysis. Their expert attention to detail is always helpful and appreciated, and their customer service is second to none! I wish more services had trustworthy folks like these.
Joy Castillo — Google review
Ronnie and Lane were AMAZING. 8 times down the sewer with 3 different heads in less than an hour. Lesson learned, never call other companies for a sewer core cleaning.
Denver Realtor – Aloha Real Estate — Google review
Always call OUR DRAIN & SEWER!!!
Mahalo,
Jaryd w/ Aloha Real Estate
What your client actually gets
- A written NASSCO inspection report — the national standard for building sewer and drain inspection, coded the way lenders, title companies and the other side’s agent expect to see it.
- The video, permanently. Not a link that expires in 45 days. Your client keeps the footage, and so does the file.
- Findings with numbers attached. Roots as a percentage of the pipe. Deformation as a percentage of cross-section. Depths and footages for every observation. A report full of adjectives and no measurements isn’t much use to anyone negotiating.
- A plain-English conclusion. If a fifty-four foot line is clean and serviceable with one broken section just outside the foundation, that’s what it says — and it says spot repair, not replacement.
We can get to the line
Plenty of inspections fail for the dullest reason there is: there’s no accessible clean-out, and the inspection can’t happen. You find out on day four of a five-day objection period.
We’ll pull and reset a toilet. We’ll go up on the roof vent. We’ll get into the crawl space. Flat $50 on top of the job, published on our price list, the same whether it’s easy or awkward.
We also run 125 feet of cable as standard and have cleared blockages past two hundred. If a house has been told its line is unreachable, that’s usually a statement about equipment rather than about the pipe.
Booking us — the honest version
We’re usually booked about a week out. By Friday, most of the following week is gone.
Cam holds back a couple of gaps in the schedule and does her best to fit transaction work in, and we’ll move things for a genuine emergency. But we work Monday to Friday, eight to five, and we don’t pretend otherwise. If you call us on the last day of your inspection objection period, we will try — but we’d much rather you called on the first.
We’d sooner tell you plainly when we can be there than say yes and not turn up. You’ve had enough of the second kind.
What it costs
Published, the same for everyone, and no membership scheme:
- Camera inspection — NASSCO certified, written report and video included — $175
- Camera with locate — $145
- Maintenance mainline cleaning — up to 1 hour, 125 ft of cable — $225
- Roof vent, crawl space, no clean-out or toilet pull — $50
Estimates are free. No trip charge in metro Denver or Aurora; outside that it’s $50 to $100, and we tell you which when you book rather than when we arrive. The full price list is here.
When your client’s report says something frightening
Half the words on a sewer report sound worse than they are, and one of them — offset — sells more unnecessary replacements in Colorado than the rest put together.
We’ve written the plain-English version so you can send it to a client instead of talking them down yourself:
- What your sewer inspection report actually means — bellies, roots, scale, Orangeburg, and what genuinely does mean replacement
- Offsets — with camera footage of a real defect and of a joint that just looks like one
- Cracked, broken or collapsed? — why “collapsing” is a measurement, not an opinion
And if the line really is broken
We’ll show you and your client exactly why, on camera, and point you to R.C Pipeline (303-597-8396), who do underground sewer repair and replacement. BBB accredited, A+ rated.
We take no referral fee. The moment money changes hands for a recommendation, the recommendation is worth nothing — and you’d be right to discount ours accordingly.
Check us before you send anyone
NASSCO keeps a public directory of everyone holding one of their certifications. Put Our Drain and Sewer Company in the Organization field and you’ll find both of us — Morris (Mark) Friberg and Ronald (Ronnie) Patin, BSDI certified since June 2025, the first in the Denver metro area to hold it.
The standard requires the certified person to be on site while the inspection is done — not signing off on somebody else’s footage from an office. When you book us, one of us is running the camera.
Property managers and commercial accounts
Same work, different rhythm. We look after multi-unit portfolios across the metro — apartments, commercial buildings, a hospital — and we schedule several units in a run so you’re not paying for the same drive four times.
You get the same technician. Not whoever’s free that morning. The man who’s been in your buildings before, who knows which unit has the awkward clean-out and which stack backs up every spring — and who answers his own phone.
That isn’t a 24-hour emergency service and we won’t pretend it is; we work Monday to Friday. It’s what happens when the same person has been looking after your properties long enough to know them, and it’s the part of this job that a bigger company with a call centre genuinely cannot do.
Net 30 terms for established commercial accounts, invoiced per unit so your books stay clean. Published pricing, the same rates as everyone else pays.
And because we camera every line before and after, we’ll tell you which ones are heading for trouble — before a tenant calls you at eleven at night. That conversation is a great deal cheaper than the one that follows a backup into a finished basement.
Call Cam on (720) 435-7315 to set up an account or to schedule a run of units.
One rule
Family owned and operated, and run on exactly one rule for customer service: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In practice that means we’ll tell your client when they don’t need the work — which is the only reason a recommendation from you is worth anything.
Cam answers the phone, Monday to Friday 8:00am–5:00pm. Free estimates across the Denver metro area.