A sewer inspection is the cheapest part of a house sale and the one most likely to end it. It is worth knowing what standard yours was done to, and who was holding the camera.
We are certified under NASSCO’s Building Sewer and Drain Inspection program. We were the first in the Denver metro area to hold it. And we don’t do repairs of any kind — no digging, no replacement, no lining — so an inspection from us is not the opening move in a sales pitch.
What NASSCO is, and what BSDI is
NASSCO is the National Association of Sewer Service Companies. It writes the coding standards the sewer industry inspects to, so that a report written in Denver means the same thing as a report written in Ohio.
Most of its programs — PACP, LACP, MACP — were built for utilities managing public pipe: mains, laterals and manholes owned by a city. BSDI is the one built for private property. Building Sewer and Drain Inspection. It covers the pipe between a house and the city tap, which is the pipe a buyer, a seller and a lender actually argue about.
That is the distinction worth knowing. A certification is not automatically the right certification. Ask which one, and ask what it was written for.
What you actually get
- A written NASSCO report, coded to the standard, in the format lenders, title companies and the other side’s agent expect to see.
- The video, permanently. Not a link that expires in 45 days. It stays yours, and it stays ours, so it can still be produced in a year when somebody asks.
- Findings with numbers attached. Roots as a percentage of the pipe’s cross-section. Deformation as a percentage, in steps of five. Depths and footages against every observation. Half the conditions in the standard cannot be recorded properly without a figure — and the figure is what separates a description from a diagnosis.
- A conclusion in plain English. If a fifty-four foot line is clean and serviceable with one broken section just outside the foundation, that is what it says — and it says spot repair, not replacement.
The certified person has to be there
This is the part of the standard that matters most and gets mentioned least. Certification is issued to a person, not to a company, and it cannot be transferred. The standard requires the certified individual to be on site while the inspection is carried out — not back at an office signing off on somebody else’s footage.
When you book us, one of the two certified people is the one running the camera. There are only two of us, and we work together on the reports.
First in the Denver metro
Mark was certified on 1 June 2025 and Ronnie on 16 June 2025. Nobody else in the metro area held BSDI until the following March, nine months later.
We say first rather than only, because first is permanent and checkable and only would have stopped being true. Other companies here hold NASSCO certifications of other kinds, and city and utility staff have held PACP and LACP for years. What we can tell you is the date on our record, and where to go and read it.
Don’t take our word for it — look us up
NASSCO publishes a directory of everyone holding one of its certifications, and anybody can search it.
Put Our Drain and Sewer Company in the Organization field and both of us come up — Morris (Mark) Friberg and Ronald (Ronnie) Patin, BSDI, certified June 2025. One search, both names, no need to know that Mark is Morris and Ronnie is Ronald.
It is the same principle as handing over the footage. You should not have to believe us.
What it costs
- Camera inspection — $175. NASSCO certified, written report and video included.
- Camera with locate — $145. Video, no written report.
- Roof vent, crawl space, no clean-out or toilet pull — $50 on top, the same whether it is easy or awkward.
Published, the same for everyone, no membership scheme. Estimates are free.
If somebody has already scoped it
You don’t have to hire us to get an answer. Email the report and the video link to ourdrainandsewer@gmail.com. Cam prints the report, reads it and watches the footage herself, before anything is quoted.
Half the words on a sewer report sound worse than they are, and several of them are not valid without a number attached. There is a plain-English guide to all of them on our page about what your sewer inspection report actually means.
Booking, honestly
We’re usually booked about a week out, and by Friday most of the following week is gone. Monday to Friday, 8 to 5 — no nights, no weekends, no holidays. Cam holds back a couple of gaps for transaction work and does her best to fit it in, but if you are on the last day of an inspection objection we would much rather you had called on the first.
Cam answers the phone on (720) 435-7315 — she’s the only one who does, and she has been since we started.
Family owned and operated, and run on one rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s why we’ll tell you when your line doesn’t need the work.