Sewer inspection report template

Fill in the run, add each finding at its footage, attach the monitor photos, and print a report the homeowner can read — or save it as a PDF and send it. Everything happens in your browser: no account, no upload, nothing stored on a server.

Your company

Company details are remembered in this browser for the next report.

The job

Findings

Your words, on your letterhead. This is the part a homeowner reads twice.

What each defect means

You diagnose, the page documents. Severity and the suggested repair are editable defaults from the app's catalogue — the finding, the grade and the recommendation are your professional judgement, and the report says so.

Sewer Line Inspection Report

PRIORITY: INFO

Homeowner
Address
Date
Access / camera
Line inspected
Termination

Footage strip — findings along the run

0 ft60 ft

Findings

Inspecting plumber: ____________________ Licence: __________ Date: __________

What belongs in a sewer camera report

A homeowner is not buying pipe. They are deciding whether to believe you, often against a second quote written on the back of an invoice. Six things do that work:

1. Where the camera went, and where it stopped

Total footage, the access point, and what ended the run — the city main, a blockage, a bend the camera could not pass. A report that does not say where it stopped is asking to be doubted.

2. Each finding at its footage

"Roots at 18 ft" can be re-checked by anyone. "Roots in the line" cannot. Footage turns your findings into something the next camera can confirm.

3. A picture of the monitor

The photograph is the evidence. Everything else on the page is your description of it.

4. A severity the homeowner can act on

Minor, repair recommended, urgent. Collapsed from the NASSCO PACP grades so that grade 4–5 language is reserved for genuine failure — and not spent on an offset joint.

5. The repair that actually fits

Cheapest honest fix first, excavation reserved for real failure. Writing "excavate and replace" against a hairline crack is how a trade loses a customer who later gets a second opinion.

6. The limits of the inspection

A push-camera run is visual and non-invasive: it does not include branch lines the camera never entered, sections it could not pass, the inside of joints, or any leak test. Saying so protects the homeowner and you. This is not a NASSCO/PACP certified condition assessment, and before any dig the homeowner should get independent confirmation of the recommended repair.

If you would rather build it in Word

Copy this structure into a document and keep it as your own template. The generator above fills the same fields, but a form you own is a form you can change.

Questions people ask

What should a sewer inspection report include?

The six blocks above. If you cut anything, do not cut footage and photographs: they are what make the report checkable by the next camera.

Can I save it as a PDF?

Yes. Press print and choose "Save as PDF" — the page prints the report only, without the form or the site around it.

Do I need to sign up or download anything?

No. There is no account, no upload and no file to install. What you type stays in your browser, and your company details are remembered there for the next report.

What fails a sewer inspection?

There is no pass or fail on a camera run — that is a home inspector's or an AHJ's language. What a buyer or a homeowner reacts to is anything urgent: a break, a collapse, a hole with soil entering the line. What each finding means covers the rest.

Is this a NASSCO PACP report?

No. This is a plumber's documentation and estimate tool; it is not a NASSCO/PACP-certified structural assessment, and any report you produce here says so.

Do it on site instead

This template is the paperwork after the fact. DrainReport does the same thing while the camera is still in the pipe: pin the finding at its footage, photograph the monitor, and hand over the finished report before you pack up.

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