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Clearing

Clearing sits quietly on Chicago’s Southwest Side near Midway Airport — close enough to hear the planes but far enough to maintain the feel of a true residential neighborhood. The blocks around 63rd and Harlem are lined with tidy bungalows from the 1920s and ’30s, owner-occupied homes in a community that doesn’t draw much outside attention but doesn’t particularly need it. It’s a neighborhood that takes care of its own.


That bungalow vintage means galvanized steel supply lines that have been slowly narrowing with corrosion for decades, and clay tile sewer laterals that have had plenty of time to develop root intrusion. Neither problem announces itself dramatically — they just quietly reduce your water pressure and set the stage for a basement backup on the worst possible evening. The Scottish Plumber handles both with a sewer camera inspection, honest assessment, and drain cleaning, repiping, trenchless sewer repair, or a new water heater as needed.


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 Clearing Plumbing Services