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Chatham

Chatham is a South Side neighborhood that takes visible pride in its housing stock — and rightly so. The bungalows along 79th Street and Cottage Grove are well-kept, well-occupied homes from the 1920s and ’30s, the backbone of a community that has maintained its character across many decades. Chatham Park anchors the neighborhood, and the sense of investment in the area is apparent on nearly every block.


That investment extends, ideally, to the plumbing — because homes of this vintage require attention that doesn’t wait for a crisis. Galvanized steel supply pipes that have been in service for 80 or 90 years are likely narrowed by corrosion to a fraction of their original diameter. Clay sewer laterals under the parkways have had decades of contact with tree roots. The Scottish Plumber handles this with a camera inspection first, then drain cleaning, trenchless sewer repair, repiping, or water heater replacement — whatever the home actually needs.


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 Chatham Plumbing Services