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Printer’s Row

Printer’s Row is the South Loop’s most architecturally distinctive block — a stretch of Dearborn Street lined with massive late 19th-century printing and publishing buildings that have been converted into loft residences over the past few decades. The Dearborn Station, the Pontiac Building, the Franklin Building — these are substantial structures, built to handle the industrial demands of Chicago’s printing trade, and now home to residents who appreciate exposed brick and 14-foot ceilings. What they don’t always appreciate are the plumbing systems that came with those buildings.


Converting a century-old printing warehouse into residential lofts involves many things, but it doesn’t always involve replacing the original cast iron drain stacks or the sewer laterals beneath Dearborn Street. A sewer camera inspection on a Printer’s Row building often surfaces infrastructure that predates the conversion by decades. The Scottish Plumber handles drain cleaning, trenchless sewer repair, sewer gas issues, water heater service, and full residential plumbing throughout the neighborhood.


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 Printer’s Row Plumbing Services