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Oliver (Drain Addict @ YouTube; Drain Go) is at a house with a backed-up sewage system.

In the yard, right next to the boundary trap inspection opening, is the stump of a large tree that has been cut down at some point. This suggests that there might be roots in the pipe.

Once the inspection opening lid is removed, there are a large number of flies inside the riser pipe, and roots are visible deeper within the pipe.

The hand lance is used to do some initial clearing of the roots that are visible in the shaft. That’s enough to pop the blockage, and the backed-up sewage begins to drain. The lance is then used to cut some of the roots that still remain. Eventually, Oliver puts his arm down into the shaft through the inspection opening, and manually pulls out a number of the root fragments.

After a brief inspection with the drain camera, a nozzle replaces the lance on the jetting hose, and it’s used to start clearing away the roots that are deeper within the system. While using the camera to check on the progress, some damage to the pipes is noted. More clumps of roots are also noticed throughout the drain.

Using the pipe locator, the point where the pipe leading back to the house switches between plastic and clay piping is found, and it’s marked above-ground using spray paint.

Some more jetting is done to clean up the remaining roots. Once they’re gone, Oliver rinses off some splatters on a wall near the inspection opening, and then has somebody inside the house flush the toilets. The water and some toilet paper pass through the system, indicating it’s flowing again.

Oliver (Drain Addict @ YouTube; Drain Go) is working in an apartment suite in a multi-unit building with an amazing view of the Sydney, Australia skyline. One of the suite’s bathroom sinks is not draining properly. He notices that a chemical, likely acidic, has apparently been used by somebody else earlier to try to clear the drain.

While trying to get access to the drain by removing a section of the pipe in the cabinet underneath the sink, he accidentally gets splashed with some of the potent chemical. After washing it off in the bathroom’s other sink, he manages to remove the pipe.

A drill-powered drain snake is used to pop the blockage, but some of the chemical remains in the pipe. A bucket is then used to pour some water from the shower down the sink’s drain to flush away the chemical.

The drain camera is used to inspect the pipe, and the blockage appears to be scale, concrete, or something similar. Using the drain snake again, Oliver manages to break up most of the obstruction.

After putting the previously-removed drain pipe back in place, he wipes up some water that splashed around while he was cleaning the drain. The sink is then partially filled with water with the drain plug in, and the plug is then removed to show that the sink is able to drain.

While inspecting the pipe beneath the sink, Oliver notices some water on the floor, near the drain pipe. He wipes it up with a towel, and then partially fills the sink with water once more. After the water is released, there doesn’t appear to be any more water ending up on the floor.

At the very end of the video, he shows how the chemical that he’d encountered during the job had caused some significant damage to his work pants.

Oliver (Drain Addict @ YouTube; Drain Go) starts by jetting though an inspection opening, which seems to be for a sewage system’s boundary trap, that he had to dig through some grassy soil to access.

He then moves to a different location to access the drain pipe, via a small external hatchway that leads to a very short crawlspace under a building. To the left of the small door is a drain pipe that was apparently patched at some point with another fragment of pipe. After the patch is removed, an existing drilled circular hole is revealed in the wall of the pipe. The jetter is used through this access point to pop the blockage.

After the jetting, the camera is used to inspect the state of the pipe, and some remaining traces of root infiltration is observed. Some more jetting is done to clear away the remaining roots. The drilled access hole in the pipe is then patched over once again with a fragment of pipe.

A toilet paper flush test is performed and observed at the original inspection opening, which demonstrates that the blockage was cleared and the system is draining once again.

Oliver (Drain Addict @ YouTube; Drain Go) uses his jetter to clear a blocked sewage pipe that is obstructed by roots. The pipe’s inspection openings are in a rocky, jungle-like embankment, and create an environment that appears to be somewhat awkward and challenging to work in.

Carsten (Kempinger Rohrreinigung Berlin @ YouTube; Kempinger GmbH) is in a bathroom with a toilet that isn’t flushing well. He takes the toilet off of the wall to inspect its drain, as well as the drain pipe it connects to. An inspection with a camera shows that there don’t appear to be any blockages in the toilet or the pipe, but there is some scale buildup in both. A chain attachment on a drain snake is used to try to dislodge some of the buildup from the pipe and the toilet, and what appears to be a bent screwdriver is used to manually help scrape some remaining buildup from the toilet’s drain in order to get it flushing properly.