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Drainage Pricing: Auckland
Our rates for CCTV inspections, blocked drain clearance and drainage reports, and how we price drain repairs. All rates exclude GST.
Rates last reviewed: August 2026
Our rates for CCTV inspections, blocked drain clearance and drainage reports, and how we price drain repairs. All rates exclude GST.
Rates last reviewed: August 2026
Most drainage companies won't give you a number until they're standing in your driveway. Here are ours. Inspections and blockage clearance are charged by the hour at the rates below. Repairs aren't, because a drain fault is hidden by definition: the same symptom can be a root cut or a section of collapsed pipe two metres down. So we put a camera down the line first, tell you exactly what's wrong, and quote a fixed price on what we found.
| Service | Rate | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| CCTV drain inspection | $250 + GSTper hour | Camera survey of accessible lines. No written report. |
| Blocked drain clearance | $395 + GSTper hour | CCTV, hydrojet and/or root cut only. |
| Drainage Report | $995 + GST$1,144 incl. GST | Fixed price. Full survey, footage, written report, risk classification. |
| Drainlaying labour | $135 + GSTper hour, per drainlayer | Repairs are quoted at a fixed price after inspection. |
A camera survey is the only way to see what's actually happening inside your drains. We run the camera through the line, locate the fault, and tell you what we're looking at: a root intrusion, a crack, a displaced joint, a collapse, or a drain that's simply doing its job and pointing to a different problem entirely.
This rate is for the camera work itself, eyes on the pipe, findings explained to you on the day. If you need those findings documented, classified and put in writing, that's the Drainage Report below.
If you require CCTV for council or public drains, please call us for details about this, as that work is priced differently.
Our drain unblocking service is charged at $395 + GST per hour. This includes CCTV, hydrojet and/or root cut only. One rate, one truck, one crew: you're not paying separately for the camera and then again for the jetter.
Most blockages are cleared inside the first hour or two. If the camera shows the blockage is a symptom of a broken pipe rather than a build-up, we'll tell you that on the day rather than clearing it and letting you find out again in six months.
An hourly camera survey tells you what's in the pipe. A Drainage Report tells you what it means, in writing, in a form you can act on, or hand to an insurer, a purchaser, or an engineer.
The Drainage Report is a fixed price of $995 + GST and includes:
Most Auckland residential properties take one to three hours on site. Standard turnaround is five working days and is included in the price. If you need it faster, a two-working-day turnaround is $300 + GST and a 24-hour turnaround is $600 + GST.
The report fee is credited toward any approved remediation works, so if you go ahead with the repair, the investigation costs you nothing on top.
Where the report shows drainage failure has already caused structural movement, the escalation path runs to our sister companies Grace Foundation Solutions and Geofix®, including the subsidence risk and insurance-grade investigation tier for bank, insurer and Natural Hazards Cover (NHC Toka Tū Ake) purposes.
We don't publish a price for drain repairs, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does. Depth, ground conditions, access, and what has to be lifted and reinstated over the trench change the cost of the same repair by thousands. Drainlaying labour is charged at $135 + GST per hour per drainlayer, but the number that matters is the fixed price we give you after the inspection, that's the one you can hold us to.
Repair work requires a 50% deposit before work begins, with the balance due on completion.
We don't reline pipes. Relining has its place, but we've built Drainage Works around diagnosis and permanent repair. If relining is genuinely the right answer for your property, we'll say so in our findings.
A leaking drain under a house doesn't stay a drainage problem. Water washes out the ground your piles or slab sit on, and the house starts to move. Drainage Works sits alongside Grace Foundation Solutions and Geofix®, so if the camera finds a fault that's already causing movement, one team handles the drain, the ground and the structure. See our structural referral process for how this works.
Drainage Works charges $250 + GST per hour for CCTV drain inspections in Auckland. If you need CCTV on a council or public drain, call 0800 436 347 for details, as that work is priced differently.
Drainage Works charges $395 + GST per hour for blocked drain clearance in Auckland, which includes CCTV, hydrojetting and/or root cutting. Labour is charged in 15-minute increments after the first 30 minutes.
A Drainage Report from Drainage Works is a fixed price of $995 + GST ($1,144 including GST). It covers a CCTV survey of all accessible lines, digital footage, a written report with Priority 1/2/3 risk classification of every fault found, and a staged remediation pathway. Standard turnaround is five working days, and the fee is credited toward any approved remediation works.
A CCTV inspection is charged at $250 + GST per hour and gives you camera footage and a verbal explanation of what we find on the day. A Drainage Report is a fixed $995 + GST and adds a written report, a Priority 1/2/3 risk classification of each fault, and a staged remediation plan, the documented version you can give to an insurer, a purchaser or an engineer.
Yes. If you go ahead with a repair after a CCTV inspection, the hourly inspection fee is credited toward the cost of the work, the same as the $995 Drainage Report fee.
Drain repairs are quoted at a fixed price after a CCTV inspection, because depth, ground conditions, access and surface reinstatement change the cost of the same repair substantially. Drainlaying labour is charged at $135 + GST per hour, and the fixed-price quote is given once the fault has been identified on camera.
Because the fault is underground and invisible from the surface. A camera inspection is the only way to price a drain repair accurately, which is why Drainage Works quotes a fixed price after inspection rather than an estimate before it.
No. Drainage Works repairs and replaces drains rather than relining them. If relining is the right solution for your property, we will say so in our findings.
Yes. A leaking drain washes out the soil supporting your foundations, which is a common cause of foundation movement on Auckland clay. Where our inspection finds a leak that is already causing movement, the structural side is handled by our sister companies Grace Foundation Solutions and Geofix®.