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Uptown

Uptown has one of the great histories of any Chicago neighborhood — this is where the Green Mill Jazz Club has been pouring drinks and hosting music since 1907, where the Aragon Ballroom has seen everyone from Frank Sinatra to the Clash, and where the Broadway corridor has witnessed more versions of Chicago than most neighborhoods ever get. It’s a neighborhood of tremendous vintage apartment buildings, a deeply diverse population, and a housing stock that is as architecturally significant as it is old.


Significant and old: the apartment buildings and courtyard complexes along Magnolia, Kenmore, and Winthrop Avenues date from the 1910s and 1920s, and their shared plumbing systems carry all of that history. Cast iron drain stacks serving multiple floors, clay sewer laterals beneath the Broadway corridor’s mature trees, and supply lines well past their designed lifespan are standard findings in a sewer camera inspection. The Scottish Plumber handles Uptown’s multi-unit buildings thoroughly — drain cleaning, trenchless repair, repiping, and water heater service for buildings of any size.


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 Uptown Plumbing Services