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Albany Park

Albany Park is one of Chicago’s most quietly underrated neighborhoods — a dense, hardworking stretch of bungalows and two-flats along the Lawrence Avenue corridor, home to an impressive range of communities and one of the city’s more interesting stretches of independent restaurants and shops. It also sits right alongside the North Branch of the Chicago River, which means tree roots have been finding their way into the neighborhood’s older clay sewer lines for a very long time.


Most homes in Albany Park were built between 1910 and the 1940s, which puts galvanized steel supply pipes and cast iron drains firmly on the list of things to keep an eye on. We recommend a sewer video inspection for any home this age — it’s the clearest way to see what’s actually going on before a slow drain becomes a backed-up basement. When roots are the issue, our drain cleaning and rodding service handles it; when the line itself is damaged, we offer trenchless repair options that spare your yard.


When you call us about a backed-up or slow sewer, our first move is to rod and clear the line — get things flowing and your home back to normal. Sewer rodding starts at just $99 when there’s an outside cleanout to rod from, a price we’ve held since we opened in 2006. While nearly everything else has gotten more expensive, our starting price hasn’t moved in nearly twenty years. Once the line is open, we follow up with a sewer video inspection to see exactly what caused the problem — tree roots, a crack, a pipe belly — and give you an honest picture of what, if anything, needs to happen next.


We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year — including holidays — so when something goes wrong at 2 a.m., you can reach us. We offer free estimates during regular business hours with no trip charge to come out. Most companies charge just to show up; we don’t. When a sewer line needs more than rodding, The Scottish Plumber is one of the most experienced trenchless sewer repair companies in Chicagoland — doing this since 2006 with thousands of repairs completed across the area. For older homes especially, pipe stent repair is worth knowing about: a precise, minimally invasive fix that spares your floors, walls, and landscaping.


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