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Washington Heights

Washington Heights sits on Chicago’s far South Side near 95th Street and Halsted — a neighborhood adjacent to Beverly that shares some of its neighbor’s quiet residential character without the same degree of outside recognition. The housing stock here is solid bungalows and single-family homes from the 1920s and ’30s, the kind of sturdy Chicago residential construction that was built with genuine intention and has held up accordingly. It’s a neighborhood of homeowners who take their blocks seriously.


Serious homeownership doesn’t exempt a home’s plumbing from aging — and in Washington Heights, galvanized supply lines from the bungalow era and clay sewer laterals under the neighborhood’s established parkway trees are typical findings when we assess a property. The Scottish Plumber handles it straightforwardly: a sewer camera inspection to see what’s actually there, then drain cleaning, trenchless sewer repair, full repiping, or a new water heater — whatever the situation requires, done properly.


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 Washington Heights Plumbing Services