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Old Town

Old Town is exactly what it sounds like — one of Chicago’s oldest surviving residential neighborhoods, with a stretch of Wells Street that runs past the Second City comedy club and some of the most historically intact late 19th-century building stock in the city. The homes along Eugenie, Menomonee, and the surrounding streets are genuinely old by Chicago standards: many date from the 1870s and 1880s, rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire swept through this part of the city. That makes Old Town’s housing some of the most historic in Chicago — and its plumbing some of the most due for attention.


In buildings this old, the infrastructure behind the walls can be truly vintage: lead supply lines, original clay sewer laterals, and cast iron drain stacks that have been working since Grover Cleveland was president. The Scottish Plumber handles Old Town’s historic homes with the care they deserve — starting with a sewer camera inspection, then addressing whatever the home actually needs: drain cleaning, a trenchless liner, lead pipe removal, or a new water heater.


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 Old Town Plumbing Services