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Gage Park

Gage Park is a densely residential Southwest Side neighborhood anchored by 55th Street and the sweeping green space of Marquette Park. The community has shifted in character over the decades  — but the housing stock has stayed consistent: tight rows of brick bungalows and two-flats from the 1910s through the 1940s, built solidly and occupied continuously ever since.

 

Continuous occupation for 80 or 90 years is great for neighborhood stability. It’s less great for galvanized steel supply pipes, which have been quietly narrowing with interior rust the whole time. Clay tile sewer laterals beneath Gage Park’s parkways have had equal opportunity to develop root intrusion from the neighborhood’s mature street trees. We start every job with a sewer camera inspection to see what’s actually there, then handle drain cleaning, trenchless sewer repair, full repiping, and water heater installation — without unnecessary upselling or unnecessary delays.

 

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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