Panic set in.
Elena now has the video on a USB stick in her fireproof safe. She jokes it’s her most valuable document – more useful than the title deed. cctv drain survey hammersmith and fulham
Carla lifted the manhole cover in Elena’s garden – a small, brick-lined shaft filled with murky water. She fed in the camera, its light cutting through the gloom. Elena watched the screen. Panic set in
The pipe had partially caved in, creating a shelf of broken clay and brick. Wastewater couldn’t flow to the main sewer under Fulham Palace Road. Worse, tree roots from a nearby London plane tree had invaded the joint, forming a dense, knotted mass Carla called “a root dam.” Carla lifted the manhole cover in Elena’s garden
When Elena bought the ground-floor flat in a converted Victorian townhouse near Fulham Palace Road, the surveyor’s report mentioned only “limited drainage inspection.” She didn’t think much of it. The flat had high ceilings, a compact garden, and was a short walk to the Thames. Perfect.
