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Chicagoland Plumbing Tip#32 Trenchless Sewer Relining Really Works

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According to a recent article in Angie’s List Magazine, 78% of homeowners surveyed did not know their broken or cracked sewers could be repaired or replaced without digging up their properties.  73% said they would be willing to pay more for such a repair if it meant that their decks, patios, gardens, or walkways could be saved.


The great news is that they can have their cake and eat it, too.  The Scottish Plumber’s Trenchless Sewer Relining process can save both your yard and your money.  Most procedures are less expensive than traditional excavation, and there’s no need for expensive landscape and hardscape restorations.


For more information on Trenchless Sewer Repair, visit the trenchless section of the Scottish Plumber website or read this article from Angie’s List Magazine.

Lombard Plumber Tip #30: An In-Depth Pipe Inspection

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Have you invested in Lombard plumbing services, had a plumber come to your home, and then experienced the same exact plumbing issue after the plumber left? Well, let’s not rush to blame the plumber, because complex plumbing issues sometimes require complex plumbing equipment that not all plumbing companies have on hand. However, it is equally important to hold your plumber accountable for the quality of his or her work. At The Scottish Plumber, our Lombard plumbers are professionally trained to provide the most thorough residential plumbing and commercial plumbing services on the market.

All of the Lombard plumbers at The Scottish Plumber are professionally trained to use the latest plumbing technology available, such as a sewer video camera or non-invasive (no-dig or trenchless) pipe repair.

Video camera pipe inspection is a plumbing service that can reveal what we cannot see with the naked eye. The video camera pipe inspection machine can snake down into those hard to reach pipes and give us an up close and personal look at their condition. This allows us to more precisely locate pipe issues such as cracks, holes, and corroded areas. An in-depth plumbing inspection should include video camera pipe inspection, so if this is what you are looking for, please contact the Lombard plumbers at The Scottish Plumber today.

Chicagoland Flood Control Rebates

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Village Flood Control Rebates
A major contributor to flooded basements in the Chicagoland area is a network of inadequate and aging municipal sewer systems that simply can’t handle the volume during times of heavy rainfall.

Typical city sewer backup

Typical city sewer backup

The good news is that there are steps you can take to prevent such a flood. One option is to install a flood control system which blocks sewer water from entering your basement. Another is to replace your standard gravity sewer line, with an elevated overhead sewer system, which would prevent the sewage from ever reaching a level high enough to enter your home.
The better news is that if you’re thinking about one of these options, now is a great time to have it done. Some Chicagoland villages have decided to offer programs designed to encourage residents to invest in such improvements, and are now offering rebates to help pay for them.
Here is a list of village rebates currently available. If your town is not on the list, contact your village’s Building Department to ask if they offer a similar program.
• Addison (630-543-4100)
o Currently offering rebate of up to $2000 for conversion to an overhead sewer.

• Arlington Heights (847-368-5000)
o Currently offering rebate of up to $5000 for conversion to an overhead sewer.

• Des Plaines (847-391-5300)
o Currently offering rebates of up to $2000 for the installation of a battery back-up sump pump, an indoor flood control system, or conversion to an overhead sewer.

• Elmhurst (630-530-3000)
o Currently offering rebate of up to $5000 for conversion to an overhead sewer.

• Glencoe (847-835-4111)
o Currently offering rebate of up to $2000 for conversion to an overhead sewer or the installation of a flood control system.

• Morton Grove (847-965-4100)
o Currently offering interest-free loans for a conversion to an overhead sewer or the installation of a flood control system.

• Palatine (847-358-7500)
o Currently offering rebate of up to $6000 for conversion to an overhead sewer.

• Schaumburg (847-895-4500)
o Currently offering rebate of up to $5000 for conversion to an overhead sewer.

Villa Park Plumber Tip #21: Clearing Root Infested Sewers

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The Scottish Plumber employs a team of highly qualified licensed Villa Park plumbers, Chicago plumbers, and Chicagoland plumbers who provide a variety of Chicago plumbing services and Villa Park plumbing services. The Scottish Plumber is proud to offer outstanding customer service, consistent professionalism, and excellent plumbing repairs and plumbing maintenance.

One of our top-notch Villa Park plumbing services is clearing sewer roots from Chicago sewers and Villa Park sewers. Sewer roots develop in underground soil, and especially after heavy rains, these roots grow and expand. As the sewer roots grow thicker and larger, they can meander right into your sewer lines. Clearing sewer lines of sewer roots is a hefty plumbing job that should be done by a licensed Villa Park plumber or Chicago plumber from The Scottish Plumber.

Left untreated, sewer roots can disrupt your Chicago sewer lines and Villa Park sewer lines’ functioning. When sewer roots exert pressure on sewer lines, especially older sewer lines than run under older homes, the sewer pipes can crack. Sewer cracks are often a sign of a larger plumbing issue, so that is why The Scottish Plumber’s team of Villa Park plumbing contractors and Chicago plumbing contractors use video camera pipe inspection as part of their leak detection strategy.

Please do not wait until a sewer root infestation grows into a larger sewer obstruction, which can lead to cracked sewer pipes, which are not only a sever plumbing issue but a potential health hazard. For example, if a sewer root grows into a sanitary sewer, the sanitary sewer can crack and leak sewage into the surrounding earth. Trust the Villa Park plumbers and Chicago plumbers at The Scottish Plumber to serve all of your plumbing needs, including emergency plumbing services and plumbing repairs.

Villa Park Plumber Tip #20: $99 Video Camera Inspection

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The Scottish Plumber is a trusted provider of Villa Park plumbing services by Villa Park plumbers and Villa Park plumbing contractors. Our licensed plumbing contractors perform a variety of jobs, from unclogging toilets and unclogging shower drains to sump pump installation and battery back up sump pump installation. The Scottish Plumber is proud to offer its plumbing expertise to all plumbing jobs that our Chicagoland plumbers and Chicagoland plumbing contractors perform.

Video camera inspection is a plumbing procedure that the Scottish Plumber offers at a shockingly reasonable rate. Villa Park video pipe inspection is exactly as it sounds – a Chicago plumber or Villa Park plumber feeds a video camera into your drain or sewer pipe to investigate those areas hardest to reach. Because video pipe inspection uses advanced technology, this plumbing service can be very costly to you, the consumer.

At The Scottish Plumber we are constantly looking for new solutions to the plumbing issues that our Villa Park plumbing customers and Chicago plumbing customers most commonly encounter. A central goal of ours is to build a satisfied customer base so that, when you are pleased with the work our Villa Park plumbers have done, you will reach out to us in the future.

Video camera pipe inspection from The Scottish Plumber is part of our $99 drain cleaning package. That’s right, for $99 we provide a Villa Park plumbing service that includes video camera pipe inspection and drain cleaning. Villa Park plumbing services should be affordable, so please contact The Scottish Plumber to learn more about how we deliver outstanding plumbing repairs at a great value.

Villa Park Plumber Tip #19: Storm Drain Cleaning

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Villa Park plumbing contractors and Villa Park plumbers at The Scottish Plumber are here to answer all of your Villa Park plumbing and Chicago plumbing questions. The Scottish Plumber’s team of Villa Park licensed plumbers and Villa Park licensed plumbing contractors believe that there is no plumbing job too small for our years of plumbing expertise.

So if you are concerned that you have a clogged kitchen sink because the dishwater is draining slowly, please do not hesitate to call The Scottish Plumber. We are eager to solve your Villa Park plumbing issues and Chicago plumbing issues.

As autumn draws near, so do more frequent thunderstorms. The Villa Park plumbers and Chicago plumbers at The Scottish Plumber have devised an elegant solution to a common plumbing issue. As the leaves fall and paint Chicagoland red and gold, our Villa Park plumbers and Chicago plumbers grow even more vigilant about sewer cleaning and drain cleaning because these leaves do not simply disintegrate, they get wet!

When those crisp fall leaves turn to a soggy mess and runoff water washes them into your Chicago storm drains, blockages can occur. You might notice water seeping into driveway, which can put unsightly cracks into your driveway. The Scottish Plumber wants all of its Chicagoland plumbing customers and Villa Park plumbing customers to be thoroughly satisfied by the performance of their Chicago storm drains and Villa Park storm drains. For this reason, we offer an exclusive $99 drain cleaning package. The Scottish Plumber is here to serve your Villa Park storm drain cleaning and Chicago storm drain cleaning needs.

Chicago Plumber Tip #17: Sanitary Sewer Cleaning

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If you are new to The Scottish Plumber’s Chicago plumber tips, then you may not be familiar with the Chicago plumbing services that we provide. If you are a Villa Park plumbing customer, Chicago plumbing customer, or Chicagoland plumbing customers, then please keep reading so you can gain insight to the Chicago plumbing expertise that makes our company the leading Chicagoland plumber and Chicagoland plumbing contractor service provider.

A sanitary sewer is a channel that transports sewage, or foul waste, from Chicagoland homes and businesses to water treatment facilities or disposal facilities. You can imagine that, if a sewer blockage were to occur or another form of sewer infiltration, the results could be pretty filthy. Chicago sanitary sewers use the same channels as Chicago storm drains, so Chicago storm drain cleaning might also include sanitary sewer cleaning.

Sanitary sewer cleaning must be performed by a licensed Chicagoland plumber or Chicagoland plumbing contractor. Thankfully, The Scottish Plumber employs only the most skilled Chicagoland plumbers and Chicagoland plumbing contractors to perform these highly complex sewer repair and sewer cleaning jobs.

For all of our readers in the Villa Park and Chicago areas, please do not hesitate to contact The Scottish Plumber for a sanitary sewer cleaning. Our Chicago plumbers are familiar with all of the municipal and local requirements and permits required in order to conduct Chicago sanitary sewer cleaning within regulations. When you contact a Villa Park plumber or Chicago plumber at The Scottish Plumber, we will gladly answer all of your questions pertaining to sanitary sewer cleaning.

Chicago Plumber Tip #16: Soft Drain Blockages

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At The Scottish Plumber, our team of Chicago plumbers and Villa Park plumbers are always seeking to find the most innovative plumbing solutions to common plumbing issues, emergency plumbing issues, and those plumbing issues that are not so easy to fix.

Whether you are dealing with a persistent slow bathtub drain or a garbage disposal that makes more noise than a high fidelity stereo, a Chicago plumber or Villa Park plumber at The Scottish Plumber is eager to investigate your Chicago plumbing issues and find a cost-effective, timely solution.

Last week’s Chicago plumber tip focused on drain blockages, of which there are two main types – hard blockages and soft blockages. Let’s take a closer look at what causes soft drain blockages and how the Chicago plumbers at The Scottish Plumber deal with these soft blockages.

Soft drain blockages settle into Chicago drains and sewers all the time. Although soft blockages are usually less dense than hard blockages, such as Chicago sewer roots, the soft blockages can sometimes be harder to remove. Unlike hard blockages, soft blockages are often composed of solid debris such as soap residue combined with liquid debris such as body oil. Soft blockages require diligent drain cleaning to help loosen the blockage material.

For all of our Chicago drain cleaning customers and Villa Park drain cleaning customers who are reading this article, we apologize if we are making you nauseous, but do not fret – our Chicago plumbers will handle all of the gritty details of clearing soft drain blockages. A great way to combat soft drain blockages is with The Scottish Plumber’s $99 drain cleaning package. A Chicago plumber will use high pressure water jets to clear away the oily soft blockage residue, so you don’t have to!

Chicago Plumber Tip #15: Hard Drain Blockages

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The Scottish Plumber employs a wonderful team of Chicago plumbers and Villa Park plumbers whose main concern is to provide our Chicago plumbing customers and Villa Park plumbing customers outstanding customer service and a plumbing job well done.

Our highly qualified Chicago plumbers and Villa Park plumbers are licensed to perform a wide range of plumbing repairs, pipe repairs, and plumbing maintenance, including video pipe inspection, pipe bursting sewer pipe replacement, and sewer and drain cleaning.

The Villa Park plumbers and Chicago plumbers at The Scottish Plumber want you to know that, for the purposes of simplicity, there are two types of Chicago drain blockages. There are hard blockages and soft blockages, and both types of blockages can result in clogged drains, clogged sewers, overflowing toilets, or slow drains. For this Chicago plumber article, we will focus on hard drain blockages.

Hard drain blockages can appear in Chicago drains and Chicago sewers. Hard drain blockages include sewer roots, objects such as bath toys, and mineral buildup. They are so named because they are literally hard to the touch. If a Chicago plumber were to feed a drain snake down a toilet drain with a hard blockage, the drain snake would initially come up hard against the blockage.

Hard blockages, therefore, require more advanced plumbing solutions than a drain snake can provide. Our Chicago plumbers might try video pipe inspection to get a closer look at the blockage itself, at which time chemical drain cleaning or sewer rodding may be required.

Chicago Plumber Tip #14: Water Jets Clean Sewer Drains

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If you have visited this blog recently, you will see that our Chicago plumbers perform a sewer line replacement procedure known as trenchless pipe replacement. Trenchless pipe replacement is a plumbing solution and pipe repair solution for sewer pipes that are either way too old, the wrong size, or punctured by, say, a sewer root that sprouts after a rainfall.

Chicago pipe replacement differs from Chicago pipe repair in that the end result of pipe replacement eliminates all damaged piping, leaving behind only new, healthy sewer pipes. With pipe repair, a Chicago plumber may not even need to go as far as feeding an extender head down a pipe for pipe bursting. Video camera pipe inspection is often a precursor to Chicago pipe repair because it reveals with stunning accuracy the location and scope of the pipe damage or leak.

But there are yet more plumbing issues that cannot be solved using pipe replacement. For example, your shower drain is subject to body dirt, oils, skin fragments, and hair on a daily basis. When all of these materials become caked on the surfaces of your shower drains, they eventually stick to the pipes that carry waste water into Chicago sewers. As this residue accumulates, you may notice that water collects in the bathtub and stays there, instead of going down the drain. You might also notice a foul odor emanating from the clogged shower drain.

In any case, before a Chicago plumber from The Scottish Plumber would even consider pipe replacement, he or she would use high pressure water jetting to tackle the greasy residue that causes Chicago clogged drains. Our hydro jetter machine clears these types of drain blockages, so you get back to pleasant showers.