Heating, cooling and plumbing in Remington, the river town with water of its own.
Remington pumps its own water, FCWSA owns the sewer, and nearly four in ten homes predate 1960. Clearing a clogged drain there is $200 to $800.
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Victorian houses downtown, subdivisions at the edges, and plenty of rentals.
Across ZIP 22734, close to four homes in ten went up before 1960 and almost one in five before 1940. The Town alone is too small for steady Census figures, so these cover the whole ZIP, and about a third of its land is across the river in Culpeper County.
Downtown grew up as Rappahannock Station on the railroad and took the name Remington in 1890. It kept its old grid of streets, and when the highway moved out of town, a lot of its old buildings stayed put. Fauquier County’s plan counts 75 buildings in town worthy of the historic registers, among them Victorian and Queen Anne houses and I- and L-plan houses on Main, Church, Washington and Franklin Streets. A house like that has had its plumbing and heat redone a section at a time, so cast iron drains and steel or copper water lines can still sit next to newer plastic.
The newer neighborhoods ring the old town. The County’s plan names Lee’s Glen to the north and The Meadows, east of town on Lucky Hill Road, as the two developments where most of the district’s new houses went in the decade before 2010, and about a quarter of all the homes in the ZIP date from the 1980s alone. A heat pump that’s been running since then is well past a normal service life, and water lines from that decade may be polybutylene.
Plenty of homes are rented. More than four households in ten across 22734 rent, over twice the share in Bealeton’s ZIP next door. Owners mostly heat with electricity, about three in four, usually through a heat pump; about one in ten burns propane and nearly as many heat mainly with wood. Natural gas is almost nonexistent.
Old plumbing downtown, heat pumps all over town.
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Heating
Three Remington owners in four heat with electricity, so a no-heat call is usually a heat pump: a failed defrost control, an iced-over outdoor coil, or backup strips doing all the work. Propane furnaces get the same care. An oil burner goes to an oil company, but we’ll price what replaces it.
Cooling
The heat pump that warms the house is also its air conditioner, so a cooling repair here pays off twice. In the Victorian and I-house rooms downtown, where there’s often no room for ductwork, a ductless mini-split cools a floor at a time without opening up plaster.
Plumbing
Inside the town limits the water comes from the Town’s own wells and the drains go to FCWSA’s sewer: two utilities on one street. Everything inside the house is yours, and so is the sewer lateral out to FCWSA’s main. That’s our side of it: leaks, drains, water heaters and that lateral.
One price book, in town or out, owner or landlord.
A Remington address gets the same figures as one in Chantilly, and you see yours in writing before we start.
- AC run capacitor replaced$240 to $370
- Refrigerant topped up$190 to $740
- Condensate drain cleared$175 to $420
- Repair diagnostic visit$99
- Drain cleaning, one fixture$200 to $800
- Main sewer line cleaning$550 to $1,650
- Leak detection$200 to $500
- Pressure reducing valve replacement$500 to $1,000
- Water heater, tank, installed$2,757 to $7,494
They come from the price book behind our plumbing page and our AC repair page. Replacing a tank in a rental? The water heater estimator prices it, electric or propane.
Is the heat pump as old as the house? The HVAC estimator gives the installed range for a house your size before anyone visits.
Town water, FCWSA sewer, County permits, and the Town’s own zoning.
Your water
The Town of Remington runs its own water system, separate from FCWSA’s, and sells water to homes in town and some nearby customers, at a higher rate outside the limits. Because it’s independent, its drought rules can differ from FCWSA’s. FCWSA runs its own small two-well system its 2025 report labels Remington, The Meadows and The Ridge, where booster pumps run at different times of day and pressure can dip in parts of the neighborhood. The Town’s website posts no water quality report; Town Hall is at 540-439-3220.
Reports: Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority, no hardness figure published.
Your permit office
Remington is one of Fauquier’s three incorporated towns, with its own zoning ordinance and zoning permits; for an addition or a new building, the County wants the Town’s approved zoning permit with its building permit application. A furnace or water heater swap is simpler: that’s a County trade permit, which normally needs no zoning approval and comes over the counter the same day. Propane appliances need one even like for like; electric ones replaced in place don’t.
Permit pages: Fauquier County.
Your sewer
The Town once owned its sewer and sold it, discharge license and all, to FCWSA. When FCWSA studied the whole system draining to its Remington plant, downtown Remington let in the most ground and storm water and its flows rose fastest in a storm, through cracked pipe, bad joints, worn manholes and faulty laterals. In 2021 it announced a five-year plan to rehabilitate the downtown lines. The lateral from your house to the main is yours to keep clear.
Sources: Fauquier County’s Bealeton and Remington Service District Plan and FCWSA’s Remington sewer rehabilitation notice and its sewer responsibility page.
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In the last 30 days SwiftPro’s vans worked in Bealeton, Midland and Warrenton, the towns around Remington.
Remington is 32 miles from SwiftPro’s Chantilly shop, and the van that comes to you is coming from the last job, not from the shop. SwiftPro charges no distance fees anywhere it serves.
The Town on the Rappahannock, and the rest of 22734.
In town: Main, Church, Washington and Franklin Streets and the old blocks along the railroad, Tinpot Run and the river. Around it: Lee’s Glen to the north, The Meadows on Lucky Hill Road to the east, and the farms and lots past the town limits. Next door:
Remington questions.
Who supplies my water in Remington?
Inside the town limits, the Town of Remington, from its own wells. Fauquier County’s plan says that, by agreement with FCWSA, the Town also serves developments north and west of the railroad, while FCWSA serves other subdivisions around town, including its two-well system for The Meadows and The Ridge. Past those lines, a house has its own well. Your bill settles it: Town water customers inside the limits get trash pickup on the same bill.
Does rain really get into Remington’s sewer?
It does. FCWSA studied everything that drains to its Remington plant, Bealeton and Opal included, and downtown Remington took in the most groundwater and stormwater, with flows jumping quickly whenever it rained. The ways in are cracked pipe, bad joints, worn manholes and faulty laterals. Your lateral is the pipe from the house to the main, and it’s yours. On a backup, call FCWSA at (540) 349-2092 to check its main; if that’s clear, SwiftPro clears your line and can camera it for $89 to find the crack.
Does downtown Remington flood?
Parts of it do. Fauquier County’s plan says the Rappahannock and Tinpot Run periodically flood part of downtown, and a FEMA study it cites gives Tinpot Run a 1 percent chance each year of a flood 12 feet above its bed; the soils hold water too. The Town’s forms page links the County’s FEMA flood zone map. If water ever reaches your furnace, water heater or outdoor unit, have it checked before it runs again, and SwiftPro will tell you plainly whether it’s a repair or a replacement.
Do I need a Town permit to replace a water heater in Remington?
Usually not from the Town. The Town of Remington issues zoning permits, which come into play when a project needs a County building permit, such as an addition. A water heater is a County trade permit, and those normally need no zoning approval. Fauquier County wants one for any propane water heater, even like for like, and none for an electric tank of the same kind going back in the same spot. Our water heater estimator includes the permit.
I rent out a house in Remington. What should I keep an eye on?
The heat pump and the water heater. About six rentals in ten across 22734 heat with electricity, usually a heat pump, and with natural gas almost absent here the water heater is electric or propane. An electric tank swapped for a similar one in place needs no County permit. A heat pump repair is $240 to $370 for a run capacitor, $190 to $740 for a refrigerant top-up and $175 to $420 for a blocked condensate drain.
Downtown, Lee’s Glen or out past the limits, call us.
Tell us your street, whether your water is the Town’s or FCWSA’s, and whether you live there or rent it out. We’ll say what a Remington house of that age usually needs, roughly what it costs, and when we can be there.
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In Remington, SwiftPro repairs and replaces heat pumps, furnaces, air conditioners and ductless mini-splits, cleans air ducts and dryer vents, and handles plumbing from drains and leaks to water heaters and sewer laterals, in town and around it.
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