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A new well pump on your existing pipe and wire runs $2,781 to $4,000 installed.
Price range
$2,781-$4,000
8yrs @ 7.99%
$39/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$30/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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Well pump repair in Clifton, 20124, in the Town and on the five-acre lots around it, where a well is how a house gets water. Pump, wire and tank tested first. The $49 plumbing visit that tests it first is waived when you go ahead with the repair.
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Two of our plumbers in a Northern Virginia mechanical room, where a well’s pressure tank usually lives.
Licensed and insuredVirginia Class A contractor #2705192276
24/7 emergency serviceWe answer day or night, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
Our own plumbers, our own trucksNobody here is a subcontractor with a magnet on the door
The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
What it costs
The span of what we’ve quoted and sold for well work in 2026. Depth, wire and what’s worn out set where yours lands, in writing before anything comes out of the well.
Pressure switch replacement
$450 to $609
Pressure tank replacement
$2,200 to $2,950
or $37/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Well pump replacement
$2,781 to $4,000
or $46/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Well pump, new wire and drop pipe
$4,900 to $6,500
or $82/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Well pump, pressure tank and switch
$6,200 to $8,000
or $103/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Deep well or full system rebuild
$9,500 to $16,500
or $158/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Plumbing visit, waived when you go ahead with the repair
$49
Monthly figures: 60mo @ 0% APR on each starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. Longer plans lower the payment and cost more in total. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
The $49 visit is waived when you go ahead with the repair. Pulling a pump just to look at it is $1,300 to $2,000, so we test the tank, the switch and the pump’s wire from the house first.
Replacing a pump needs no health department well permit in Virginia. We don’t drill or deepen wells; if yours needs that, we’ll tell you who to call.
Want your own number before anyone comes out? The well pump cost estimator asks what the water is doing and prices the likely fix.
What’s different in Clifton
Clifton is one of the few corners of Fairfax County where the plan says it out loud. Inside the Town of Clifton, the Town’s 2009 plan says houses draw from private wells, apart from five small public wells serving a few churches, businesses and public buildings. Around it, the county rezoned about 44,000 acres in the 1980s to a five-acre minimum, planned never to be served by public water or sewer. The Town even says a new house needs a lot big enough for a water well.
So the count runs high: 1,723 active well records in 20124, third in the county behind Great Falls and Fairfax Station. Clifton Road has the most, then Henderson Road and Chapel Road, with Compton, Yates Ford, Balmoral Forest, Newman and Popes Head Roads after. The permit dates peak in the 1980s, the same decade as that rezoning, and about one in five is from 2000 or later, mostly new houses going up on the big lots.
Inside the town line the houses are older still, historic frame houses on narrow streets, and the well can be older than anyone living there remembers. The Health Department told the Town its water quality was relatively good, with some high iron. Iron is the thing to watch on a Clifton well. It stains fixtures, clogs filters and can gum up the small port under a pressure switch, which acts like a pump problem and usually isn’t one.
Not every Clifton well feeds only the house. In July 2026 an owner asked us to plumb a well tank, a softener and a hose line they’d bought for a barn. Barns and outbuildings on lots this size often have their own line off the well, and a frozen or leaking one out there can pull the pressure tank in the house down and leave the pump running.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Clifton mail outside the town: five- to ten-acre lots in the Occoquan watershed on Clifton, Compton and Yates Ford Roads, mostly on septic, and the 1980s subdivisions off Springstone Drive and Union Mill Road on county sewer.
ZIP 20124 as a whole, the Town included: its own homes are too few for steady Census figures.
When to call
When pressure fades slowly on a Clifton well, the pump isn’t always the cause. Iron and sediment can foul the switch, the tank tee or a filter cartridge. We check the cheap parts before we pull the expensive one.
A pump that starts every few seconds usually means the pressure tank lost its air cushion. Every start wears the motor, so it’s worth a call this week, not next month.
Check the well pump’s breaker first. If it tripped once, reset it once. If it trips again, leave it off: the pump, its wire or the switch needs testing.
When the power goes out
The Virginia Department of Health puts it simply: if your home is on a well, the pump won’t work when the power is out. Here’s what to do before, during and after.
When a big storm is coming, fill a few jugs and the bathtub. Once the pump stops, all you have is what’s left in the pressure tank, and toilets need water to flush.
Many well pumps run on 240 volts. Franklin Electric’s installation manual says a transfer switch must be used any time a generator backs up a well pump, and VDH says to have the hookup made by a licensed electrician.
Franklin’s minimum for a 1 horsepower two-wire pump is a 6 kW generator, and 4 kW for a 1 horsepower three-wire pump. Not sure which yours is? The control box on the wall in the basement means three-wire.
Give the pump a minute to refill the tank. No water? Look at the well pump’s breaker. A surge can also take out the pressure switch or the control box, which we can test from the house.
VDH says to treat a well that was under floodwater as contaminated, and not to run the pump until its wiring is dry. Then shock chlorinate the well and test the water one to two weeks later.
Virginia Cooperative Extension recommends shock chlorinating after any repair to a well system, then a bacteria test one to two weeks later. A well’s water is the owner’s to look after: the EPA doesn’t regulate private wells.
Power back and still no water? Check the breaker, then call us. We’ll test the switch, the control box and the pump from the house before anything comes out of the well.
Who keeps the well records
Fairfax County’s Health Department says every private well owner should test the water yearly for bacteria and chemicals, and that contamination can get in when the pump or plumbing is repaired. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who works on it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Inside the town line Fairfax County issues the permits, but the Town signs off first, and the whole town is a historic district whose review board looks at the outside of buildings. Pump and tank work happens in the basement and down the well, but whoever you hire shouldn’t be surprised by any of that.
Pulling a pump is the expensive part of the job. Ask whether they check the tank’s air charge, the pressure switch and the pump’s amp draw and wire from the house first, so you don’t pay to pull a pump that was fine.
Ask for the part that failed and its price, written down, before the pump comes up. If the price can change once the pump is out, ask what would change it, like worn wire or a bad pitless adapter.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
“Tyson came out to diagnose our well system and did so with ease! Within no time he had it figured out and provided a solution for us. Very reasonable pricing, phenomenal quality of work and knowledge can’t be beat!”
Where we work
Next door to Clifton: Fairfax Station, Manassas, Oakton, Bristow and Vienna.
Questions
Not on any plan we’ve read. The Town’s own plan says the land around it was zoned to five acres and planned never to have public water or sewer, and its houses run on private wells. Your well is your water for the long haul, so the pump, tank and switch are worth keeping in shape.
Small non-community wells that serve buildings, among them the Community Hall, Clifton Elementary and the Presbyterian Church, not homes. If you live in the Town, your water almost certainly comes from a well on your own lot.
A new submersible pump on your existing pipe and wire runs $2,781 to $4,000 installed, and with new wire and drop pipe it’s $4,900 to $6,500. A pressure tank alone is $2,200 to $2,950 and a pressure switch is $450 to $609. You get the number in writing before we pull anything.
Not a well permit. Virginia’s private well rules say replacing a pump, or a well cap or seal with an equivalent one, isn’t a well alteration. Building, deepening or abandoning a well does need a health department construction permit.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. No water at all? Call, and say so first. Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
44679 Endicott Dr, Suite 211, Ashburn, VA 20147
Virginia Class A contractor license #2705192276
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Clifton and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews on Google, Angi, Yelp, the BBB and Facebook. SwiftPro maintains a dedicated HVAC team and a dedicated plumbing team.
From SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing in Chantilly. Housing figures are the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024, for each place named; permit, water and sewer facts link to each office’s own page and were checked in September and October 2026.