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Gold Coast

The Gold Coast is where Chicago keeps its finest real estate — the historic mansions along Astor Street, the prewar high-rises stepping down to Oak Street Beach, and Lake Shore Drive framing it all. It’s one of the country’s most valuable urban residential addresses, and the buildings reflect that: some of the grandest private homes ever built in the Midwest, and apartment towers whose lobbies alone cost more to build than most suburbs’ annual budgets.


What’s less glamorous is what runs inside the walls of these magnificent old buildings. The Astor Street mansions date from the 1880s and 1890s, and their original plumbing systems — however elegantly installed — are well past any reasonable service life. In the prewar high-rises, aging riser pipes, corroded shutoffs, and decades-old drain systems make for complex work that requires experience with older building infrastructure. The Scottish Plumber handles Gold Coast plumbing with the discretion and technical care the neighborhood expects — camera inspection, drain cleaning, full repiping, and water heater service for residences of any scale.


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.


Our Gold Coast Plumbing Services