Humboldt Park is one of Chicago’s most culturally vibrant West Side neighborhoods — the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, anchored by the iconic steel Puerto Rican flag monuments on Division Street (the Paseo Boricua), and home to one of the city’s finest natural parks, complete with a lagoon and fieldhouse. The two-flats and three-flats lining the surrounding streets are dense, historic, and very much in need of regular plumbing attention.
Buildings from the early 1900s in Humboldt Park often carry the full vintage Chicago plumbing package: lead supply lines, galvanized steel, cast iron drain stacks with decades of buildup, and clay sewer laterals that the park’s mature trees have been hospitably infiltrating for years. The low-lying areas near the park’s lagoon also make flood control and sump pump systems a genuine priority for many homeowners. We handle it all, starting with a sewer camera inspection and honest assessment.
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.