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Forest Park

Forest Park is one of the more characterful first-ring suburbs west of Chicago — a compact, walkable community along the Eisenhower Expressway corridor with a lively Madison Street main drag, the notable Forest Home Cemetery (resting place of several of history’s more colorful figures), and a dense stock of bungalows and two-flats that date from the early 20th century. That vintage housing, while genuinely well-built, comes with plumbing systems that have been quietly aging for generations.


Galvanized supply lines and cast iron drain stacks from the 1920s and ’30s are common in Forest Park’s older neighborhoods, and the clay sewer laterals running beneath those shaded streets have had decades to collect root intrusion and joint displacement. The Scottish Plumber handles all of it. We carry out sewer camera inspections to assess conditions accurately, follow through with drain cleaning and rodding or full sewer repair as needed, and replace aging supply lines during a repipe. For basements that have seen water during heavy rain events near the Des Plaines River basin, we install proper flood control and overhead sewer systems.


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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