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Honest what it costs answers from the licensed pros serving Northern Virginia.

All Heating & Furnaces What It Costs Plumbing Fixes Air Conditioning Water Heaters Hiring a Pro Air Quality & Ducts Heat Pumps & Mini Splits Backflow & Water Safety Drains & Sewers Water Quality

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Heating & Furnaces

Your Heating Bill Doubled. Weather, or a Problem?

A heating bill is a diagnostic readout if you know how to read it. How to separate a colder month from a system that…

An A.O. Smith tank water heater installed by SwiftPro with copper supply lines and a shutoff valve

Plumbing Fixes

Manassas Plumbing: Navigating Local Jurisdictions and Utility Codes

City, Manassas Park, or Prince William County decides who permits your work and who you call about a meter. Plus the pipe-material check and…

Two corroded and split sections of pipe removed by SwiftPro from a Northern Virginia home, laid on the ground for the homeowner to see

Plumbing Fixes

Plumbing in Falls Church, VA: The Oldest Pipes We Work On

Galvanized supply, cast iron drains and pre-1970 copper, sometimes in one house. How to identify what you have, why the pressure check comes before…

Two SwiftPro technicians wheeling a new water heater on a hand truck from a wrapped SwiftPro van to a Northern Virginia home

Water Heaters

Heat Pump Water Heater: The Dominion Rebate, and Whether It Fits Your House

Dominion pays $250 or $400, but only when it replaces an existing electric heater. The four physical things that decide whether your house is…

Plumbing Fixes

Plumbing in Herndon, VA: Town, County, and the 1980s Pipe Question

The corridor build-out sits inside the polybutylene window, so the three minute pipe check is worth doing. Plus the water heaters aging out together…

Before and after of a SwiftPro sump pump replacement with a quiet check valve in Northern Virginia

Plumbing Fixes

Plumbing in Woodbridge, VA: Three Zip Codes, Three Pipe Eras

22191, 22192 and 22193 were built in different decades and fail differently. Which one puts you inside the polybutylene window, the meter test, and…

Plumbing Fixes

Plumbing in Springfield, VA: Galvanized, Cast Iron, and Four Zip Codes

Springfield sits in the galvanized-supply and cast-iron-drain era. Why your pressure has been quietly declining, why the same drain keeps backing up, and what…

A rebuilt copper plumbing manifold with a whole-house water filter installed by SwiftPro in a Northern Virginia basement

Plumbing Fixes

Plumbing in Fairfax, VA: Two Jurisdictions and Four Pipe Eras

City or county decides who permits the work, and the decade decides the pipe. How to identify galvanized, copper, polybutylene and PEX, plus what…

SwiftPro technicians inspecting water heater and HVAC system in a Northern Virginia basement.

Plumbing Fixes

Replacing a Toilet: What It Costs, and When Repairing Is the Better Buy

Installing one you supply runs about $430 to $500; supplied and installed most often $840 to $1,300. When a repair is the right purchase,…

A SwiftPro plumber working under and at a stainless kitchen sink while clearing a blocked drain line in a Northern Virginia home

Plumbing Fixes

Plumbing in Reston, VA: Clusters, Shared Walls, and 1960s Copper

Which pipe era you have, where your responsibility stops and the cluster’s begins, the shared-wall leak problem, and the water heater in an upstairs…

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