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Portage Park

Portage Park is the Northwest Side neighborhood built around Six Corners — the busy intersection of Irving Park Road, Milwaukee Avenue, and Cicero Avenue that has been one of Chicago’s great commercial crossroads for over a century. The park itself is a genuine neighborhood asset, with its fieldhouse, pool, and skating rink. And the surrounding residential blocks, lined with solid brick bungalows from the 1920s and ’30s, are as tidy and well-kept as any in the city.


Those bungalows are wonderful homes. They also have galvanized steel supply lines that have been narrowing since Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, and clay sewer laterals that Portage Park’s mature parkway trees have been happily exploring for decades. Our sewer camera inspection shows exactly what’s in the line; our drain cleaning service clears it; and our trenchless repair options fix it properly when rodding isn’t enough. We also handle repiping and water heater service throughout Portage Park.


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 Portage Park Plumbing Services