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Irving Park

Irving Park is a Northwest Side neighborhood that wears its Chicago bungalow identity well — block after block of solid brick construction along Irving Park Road and Milwaukee Avenue, with the Blue Line running through and the Metra nearby to keep the neighborhood connected. It’s diverse, dense, and deeply residential, with a housing stock that spans from handsome early 20th-century bungalows to solid two-flats that have housed generations of Northwest Side families.


Those bungalows — predominantly from the 1910s through the 1930s — come with the plumbing their era produced: galvanized steel supply lines corroding from the inside, lead service lines in some of the older properties, and clay tile sewer laterals that Irving Park’s mature parkway trees have been investigating for decades. Our sewer camera inspection takes the uncertainty out of what’s happening underground. From there, we handle drain cleaning, trenchless repair, full repiping, and water heater service — properly, not provisionally.


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 Irving Park Plumbing Services