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South Lawndale

South Lawndale is the official name for the neighborhood most Chicagoans know as Little Village — the vibrant Mexican-American community centered on 26th Street, with its landmark arch gateway at California Avenue and one of the busiest retail corridors in Illinois. The residential streets south of 26th are dense with two-flats and worker’s cottages built in the early 1900s, housing generations of immigrant families who have made this corner of the Southwest Side their own.


The older housing stock throughout South Lawndale carries the full vintage Chicago plumbing inventory: galvanized steel supply lines that have been narrowing with corrosion for the better part of a century, lead service lines in some of the oldest properties, and clay tile sewer laterals that have accumulated root intrusion from the neighborhood’s mature trees. We start with a sewer camera inspection and an honest assessment, then handle drain cleaning, trenchless sewer repair, lead pipe removal, full repiping, and water heater service.


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.


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