Everything worth knowing before you book.

What pipe relining costs in Sydney in 2026, from a published rate card

The real numbers: setup plus a per metre rate, junction pricing, worked examples at 5m, 10m and 15m, and the market band a fair quote lands in.

Relining or digging: an honest comparison

When trenchless wins, when excavation is genuinely the right call, and how to price the two fairly once the garden is in the sum.

Patch or full reline: which repair does your drain actually need?

One fault is a patch from $2,500. A failing line is a full reline. How the camera decides, and why patching a failing line is paying twice.

How to read a CCTV drain report, and spot the ones that are just invoices

What a real drain survey shows, the questions that expose a fake one, and why you should never approve thousands of dollars without the footage.

Licensing, Sydney Water and whose pipe it actually is

Drainage is licensed work in NSW. Who is allowed to reline your sewer, where your pipe ends and Sydney Water begins, and how to check both.

The 50 year warranty, in plain English

What a written liner warranty covers, the three layers behind it, and the paperwork that should land in your hands when the job is proven.

From your call to a proven pipe: what actually happens

The whole journey step by step: the callback, the CCTV survey, the footage review, the rate card quote, the reline day and the proof pass.

Cost estimator

Ballpark your job in under a minute. A guide, not a quote.

What it costs

Honest price bands, and the things that move them.

Full line pipe relining

A structural liner cured in place inside the failed pipe. One seamless new pipe, no trench, proven on CCTV, 50 year warranty in writing.

Sectional patch relining

One localised fault, one targeted patch, from $2,500. The honest call when the rest of the line is sound.

CCTV drain inspection and report

The camera goes down, the truth comes back. Metres, junctions and faults mapped on footage you keep, whoever you hire.

High pressure drain jetting

Roots and scale cut out at high pressure. The clean that preps a reline, or the honest clear when that is all the line needs.

Junction and boundary repairs

Branch connections reinstated and sealed after lining: $650 at 100mm, $750 at 150mm, each its own line on the quote.

Strata and property manager programs

Relining occupied buildings without excavating common property. Full CCTV records for the file, invoices that survive an AGM.

Trade referrals for plumbers

Hit a job that needs relining? Send it to us. We do the liner, you keep the client and the plumbing.

Marrickville

Our home base. Inner West federation stock on earthenware sewers, street trees with a century of root run, and gardens worth keeping whole.

Ashfield

Unit blocks and federation homes side by side, which means shared 150mm mains and strata committees that need paperwork, not promises.

Lane Cove

Leafy North Shore blocks where the trees are the suburb’s whole point, and digging them up to fix a sewer is not a real option.

Mosman

Established gardens, heritage frontages and driveways that cost more than the pipe under them. The repair has to leave all of it standing.

Randwick

Eastern Suburbs semis and unit blocks on sandy ground, where a leaking joint undermines soil fast and the fix should not add a trench to the damage.

Caringbah

Sutherland Shire brick veneers on slabs, where the sewer runs under the concrete and trenchless is the difference between a repair and a renovation.

Cronulla

Beach suburb stock from cottages to new duplexes, plus pre purchase buyers who want the drains on camera before they sign.

Epping

Full canopy streets and mid century homes, a root intrusion heartland where the camera almost always finds the same story.

Castle Hill

Hills District acreage and estate homes with long private drains: more metres than anywhere else we work, all priced from the same card.

Strathfield

Big federation blocks and boundary runs under driveways, where the 150mm shared line is the one nobody wants to cut concrete for.