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For drain cleaning in Arlington, one clogged fixture drain is $200 to $800. Call SwiftPro, rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews, at (703) 997-9757, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Arlington are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Arlington: brick rowhouses, bungalows with basements, garden apartments and condo towers. We find the clog and price it before we start. A main line backing up into the house is $550 to $1,650. Adding a camera look while we’re there is $89.
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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
Where the clog sits decides the price. A sink, tub or shower drain is one fixture. When every drain in the house is slow or water comes up the lowest one, it’s the main line, and that’s a bigger machine and a longer run.
Drain cleaning, one fixture
$200 to $800
Main sewer line cleaning
$550 to $1,650
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
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If the main line clogs again inside a year, or the cable comes back with roots, a camera look for $89 on the same visit tells you whether it’s a clog or a broken pipe. We show you the picture either way.
Comfort+ membership is $199 a year for four visits: a dryer vent cleaning, a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection, a heating maintenance visit and a cooling maintenance visit.
What’s different in Arlington
More than half of Arlington’s homes, 55 in 100, are in buildings of ten units or more, so most drain calls here start in an apartment or a condo. The kitchen, the bath and the washer tie into a branch that ends at a stack, and which side of that point the clog sits on decides who pays. We clear the branch from your fixtures. If the cable runs into the stack, we stop and put in writing what we found for whoever manages the building.
The houses are a different job. Glebewood Village, 104 brick rowhouses from 1937 and 1938, each have a basement, and Westover’s houses from 1939 through 1957 do too. Westover’s garden apartments sit two stories above a raised basement. A basement is the lowest opening in the plumbing, so the laundry tub and the floor drain are where a slow main shows up first, and they’re the first place we look.
Arlington’s sewer staff name roots, grease and debris among what blocks their lines, and they are describing your kitchen line too. In a bungalow or a Cape Cod from the 1930s to 50s, the kitchen drain has been carrying fifty years of dishwater, and the cast iron under it has narrowed. A cable restores the bore. If it fills back up within the year, we’d rather put a camera in, $89 on the same visit, than keep clearing it.
About 27 in 100 of Arlington’s homes were built since 2000, some of them where an older house was torn down. A new house is plumbed in plastic, and its clogs are mostly what went down: wipes, hair, grease from a bigger kitchen. Those are usually one visit. If the house next door was rebuilt and your drain started slowing afterward, say so when you call.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Which clog it is
In an Arlington house with a basement, water that rises in the laundry tub or the floor drain when the washer empties is telling you the main is partly closed. The kitchen, upstairs, will not have complained yet. Hold off on the next load.
In houses this age the line to the street is often clay or cast iron, and roots find the joints. Clearing works, but if it keeps coming back, the camera says whether a repair would end it.
If the kitchen sink backs up but the bathroom drains fine, the clog is in that branch, usually grease or food in the kitchen, hair and soap in a tub. That’s a one-fixture clearing.
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Choosing who clears it
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
In a condo or apartment, a note that the cable ran into the building’s stack is what the manager needs. A plumber who tells you only that it’s fixed leaves you to argue with the association alone.
You should hear whether it’s a one-drain clearing or the main line, and the price for it, before anybody feeds a cable in. A price that shows up after the work is a bad sign.
A clear drain doesn’t need a bottle of anything, and a single clog is not a reason to dig. If someone jumps to replacing the sewer line without a camera picture, get a second look.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Nii is the best. He’s been to the house twice – once for a galvanized to PVC piping change-out, and another time for a badly clogged kitchen line that wouldn’t budge with my snake and a good bit of effort. Super nice guy, very skilled, fair, calm, etc. Exactly what you want in a plumber.
Where we work
Next door to Arlington: Falls Church, Alexandria, Dunn Loring, Annandale and McLean.
Questions
Management, first. Your landlord keeps the plumbing in working order, and a shared stack isn’t yours to open. If they’ve said the clog is in your own branch, we can clear it with their okay.
Usually a dry trap. A floor drain nobody uses loses the water in its trap over a dry stretch, and the sewer smell comes up. A bucket of water down the drain refills it. If it still smells or gurgles, the line past the trap is slow and we’d clear it.
One clogged sink, tub or shower drain is $200 to $800. A main line backing up into the house is $550 to $1,650. Where the clog is and how far down it sits moves the number inside that range.
Better not. The strong ones can sit in the trap, damage older pipe, and splash back on whoever opens the drain next. Try a plunger on a sink or tub, and if that doesn’t move it, call.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. You get the price in writing before the machine runs, and if it’s a pipe problem and not a clog, we’ll show you.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
44679 Endicott Dr, Suite 211, Ashburn, VA 20147
SwiftPro Plumber & Water Heaters
4200 Lafayette Center Dr, Suite N, Chantilly, VA 20151
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 Arlington and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,130 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.