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South Shore

South Shore sits on Chicago’s Southeast lakefront — a neighborhood of wide boulevards, the magnificent South Shore Cultural Center (a former country club that has served the community for decades), and a residential mix of 1920s and ’30s apartment buildings, courtyard complexes, and bungalows that face Jackson Park to the north and the lakefront to the east. It’s a neighborhood with genuine architectural distinction and a community that has long advocated for its own reinvestment.


The apartment buildings and courtyard complexes that define much of South Shore’s housing stock were built for a different era of expectations, and their shared plumbing systems reflect their age. Cast iron drain stacks serving multiple floors, clay sewer laterals beneath the mature boulevard trees, and supply lines that have been in service for the better part of a century are typical findings in a sewer camera inspection. We handle drain cleaning, trenchless sewer repair, multi-unit building plumbing, flood control, and water heater service throughout South Shore.


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 South Shore Plumbing Services