A plumber in Purcellville.
Purcellville plumbers for Town sewer and county septic: drains, leaks, water heaters and the sewer lateral, with the price in writing before any work.
Drain cleaning for one fixture is $200 to $800 and toilet repair is $250 to $900, from our published price list.
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In Purcellville your drain ends at the Town’s plant on 20th Street, or in your own septic tank.
Inside the town limits, everything you flush runs through Town sewer lines and pump stations to the Basham Simms plant on South 20th Street, and the Town’s lateral policy draws a line across your yard. From the property line out to the main is the Town’s to keep up; from the property line back into the house is yours. On an older line with no cleanout, the Town installs one at the property line, so there’s a clear place to tell whose side a clog is on.
That line is where a sewer camera inspection earns its keep. If the plumber shows the blockage is in the Town’s section and puts it in writing, the Town’s policy is to repair it, clean up your premises and reimburse what the plumber charged to find it. A camera run added to a visit is $89. The same policy charges the owner for a Town-side blockage caused by what went down the drain, and the Town’s list of things that don’t belong in its pipes starts with wipes, flushable ones included.
Water comes in split the same way, at the meter. The Town owns the meter and the line up to it, and asks residents to leave the meter crock closed; past it, the pipe is yours. Its 2025 report says every service line in the system has been identified and none of them is lead.
Past the town limits, the rest of 20132, which holds more homes than the town itself, is mostly well and septic, and the Town’s plan expects it to stay that way. Loudoun County’s ordinance calls for the septic tank to be pumped at least every five years by a cleaner its Health Department licenses. The pipe from the house to the tank is ordinary drain line, and when the lowest drain gurgles, a camera shows whether that pipe or a full tank is the trouble. The well and its pump are a well company’s job; from the pressure tank on into the house, it’s plumbing like anywhere else.
Purcellville houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
The Town of Purcellville
Inside the town limits: the downtown grid around Main and 21st Streets, the historic corridors along Main, 21st, 23rd and 32nd Streets and Berlin Turnpike, and the newer neighborhoods such as Village Case.
- Median home built2001 Census
- Built before 1980about 2 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 5 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 7 in 10 Census
- Heated withelectricity, about 5 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 1 in 10 Census
- Newer houses run copper or PEX with PVC drains, and their original water heaters are reaching the age tanks give out.
What a plumber costs in Purcellville.
The same list as our plumbing page, every line a range because the house decides where it lands. You get the number before the work starts.
- Drain cleaning, one fixture$200 to $800
- Main sewer line cleaning$550 to $1,650
- Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit$89
- Leak detection$200 to $500
- Toilet repair$250 to $900
- Pressure reducing valve replacement$500 to $1,000
- Water heater replacement$2,757 to $10,486
A sewer camera inspection is $89 added to a visit we’re already making. It’s the cheapest way to know what a drain is doing before anybody talks about digging.
With Comfort+ membership, any service is 15% off, and a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection and a plumbing safety inspection comes every year.
What a plumbing problem in Purcellville usually looks like.
A water bill that jumped in a newer house
The Town has flagged this one itself: people in newer houses using more water than at their old place, which it says can come from the high pressure in its system. A toilet that won’t stop refilling is the usual giveaway, a gauge on a hose bib confirms it, and replacing a pressure reducing valve runs $500 to $1,000.
Water where it shouldn’t be
A damp patch on a ceiling, a warm spot on the floor, a meter that keeps ticking with every tap off. A slow leak inside a wall does most of its damage before it ever shows itself.
A drain that keeps coming back
One slow sink is a sink. Two slow drains on different floors are sharing the pipe out to the street, and a basement drain that gurgles while you run water upstairs is the main line talking.
No hot water, or not enough of it
Lukewarm showers, hot water that runs out halfway, banging or rumbling from the tank. Rumbling is sediment, and it’s the noise a water heater makes in its last couple of years.
After a storm in Purcellville, check the basement drains.
Heavy rain finds the weak spots in a house’s plumbing. Four checks you can make yourself, then call us and we’ll look at the rest.
Water coming up a floor drain?
Clear water with no smell is usually groundwater. Gray water, or a sewer smell, means the main line is backing up: stop running water in the house and call us.
Drains slow or gurgling since the rain?
A main line with a cracked joint or roots in it can take in groundwater during a storm and slow down. A sewer camera inspection, $89 added to a visit, shows where.
Is the sump pump running?
If the house has one, watch it once: it should start as the pit fills, empty it and shut off. Our sump pump replacement page has the rest of the checks.
Did water reach the water heater?
If floodwater got to a gas water heater’s burner or controls, leave it off. Don’t relight it until a plumber has checked it.
Call us after a storm and we’ll check it all: the floor drains, the main line, the sump pump and the water heater. Any repair gets its price in writing before the work starts.
How to pick the best plumber in Purcellville.
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
Will they put the findings in writing for the Town?
If a clog turns out to be on the Town’s side of the property line, its policy repays the plumber’s cost of finding it, as long as there’s signed documentation. Ask before the camera goes in whether you’ll get the findings in writing.
Is the plumber licensed in Virginia?
Anyone can check on the state’s license lookup in about a minute. It’s the one question that takes the guesswork out of the rest.
Will they put a camera in before they talk about digging?
A sewer camera inspection is cheap next to any dig, and it shows whether the problem is a root, a sag or a break. A quote to dig without one is a guess.
Do you get the price before the work?
Every plumbing job on our list has a range. A plumber who won’t say where yours lands until the wall’s open is asking for a blank check.
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Plumbing questions from Purcellville.
Is my house on Town sewer or a septic tank?
Inside the town limits, the Town supplies sewer to its residents. Outside them, most homes have septic, though the Town also serves some customers beyond its limits at twice the in-town usage rate. Your bill settles it: a Town sewer charge means you’re on its sewer wherever the house sits, and no sewer charge usually means a tank in the yard.
My Purcellville house is from the early 1990s. Could it have polybutylene?
It could. About three in ten homes in town went up between 1980 and 1999, and polybutylene, the grey plastic supply pipe, went into houses from about 1978 to 1995. Look where the water line comes in and at the water heater connections; grey pipe stamped PB is it. It tends to let go at the fittings, and repiping runs $1,000 to $12,000.
Why do my drains run slow only when it pours?
In the older neighborhoods it can be the pipe in the ground. The Town’s comprehensive plan says rain that soaks the soil gets into its sewer mains and laterals through small cracks, especially where the old pipe is vitrified clay, and the plant’s director puts that leakage at more than a fifth of everything the plant treats. A gurgle or a slow floor drain that shows up only in heavy rain is worth a camera look at your side of the property line, $89 added to a visit. Call us once the storm passes and we’ll check the drains, the lateral and the sump pump together.
How much does a plumber cost in Purcellville?
It depends on the job, and every one has a published range: drain cleaning for one fixture $200 to $800, main sewer line cleaning $550 to $1,650, leak detection $200 to $500, a pressure reducing valve replacement $500 to $1,000, toilet repair $250 to $900. A sewer camera inspection added to a visit is $89.
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