Checking out a broken 6” sewer tap for repair.

Nothing says “great way to spend the afternoon” quite like checking out a broken sewer tap. 😂

For most people, looking down a sewer line ranks somewhere between cleaning the refrigerator and getting a root canal. For a plumber, it’s basically CSI: Sewer Division.

Camera goes in… everybody gathers around the monitor… and suddenly we’re watching underground plumbing television:

“Hold up! Back it up!”

“Zoom in!”

“Yep… there it is.”

Broken sewer tap. Case closed. 💩🔍

A broken tap is where your home’s sewer line connects into the larger sewer system, and when that connection fails, you can get backups, leaks, roots, dirt and all kinds of underground excitement nobody ordered.

The good news? A sewer camera lets us actually SEE the problem instead of playing the expensive game of “Let’s Dig Here and Hope.”

At American Plumbing, we’ve learned one thing after all these years: what happens underground eventually finds a way to introduce itself upstairs.

And when your toilet starts introducing itself… CALL THE PLUMBER! 😂🚽