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For pipe repair, a plumbing diagnosis visit in Arlington is $49, or $250 after hours, and a person answers (703) 997-9757 day or night.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Arlington are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Leaking or burst pipe in Arlington, from a 1940s bungalow to a high-rise condo? We find the leak, fix the pipe and give you the price before we start. Finding a hidden leak is $200 to $500, and most water pipe repairs run $450 to $650, from our published price list.
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The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
What it costs
The same numbers as our pipe repair page, each a range because the house decides where it lands. You hear the number before the work starts.
Plumbing diagnosis visit
$49
Plumbing diagnosis visit, after hours
$250
Leak located (hidden or behind a wall)
$200 to $500
Water pipe repair, one section replaced
$450 to $650
Drywall opened for the repair
Priced in writing before we cut
Prices checked .
Most repairs are one section of pipe: the split or pinhole cut out and a new piece put in. Where the pipe sits decides most of the price. Exposed in a basement ceiling is the low end; inside a finished wall is higher, and we tell you before the drywall comes open.
With Comfort+ membership, any repair is 15% off, and every year includes a plumbing safety inspection that looks at the supply pipe you can see.
What’s different in Arlington
Arlington has the oldest owner-occupied houses in the region, with a median build year of 1960, and a third were built before then. Behind those plaster walls, galvanized steel is still common, rusting from the inside, so a drip at a threaded joint often means the next joint is not far behind. We’ll show you the pipe and tell you whether it’s a repair or the start of a longer conversation.
Rusty water has an Arlington twist. Every spring the County flushes hydrants system-wide through the end of May as the water treatment switches, and it says that can bring brown water and sediment for a few days. If every tap in the house turned brown at once in April or May and clears after you run it, that’s likely the flushing. If it’s one tap, or it never clears, or the brown comes with weak pressure, the problem is inside your walls.
More than half of Arlington’s owner homes are condos and apartments, and nearly six in ten homes are rented. A leak in a tower or garden building comes down to the shutoff in your unit: the risers in the wall are the building’s, and the pipe past your valve is yours. Call the front office first, because a management company usually has to see a leak and sometimes has its own plumber for the common lines. If the leak is yours, we work around the building’s access rules and your tenant’s schedule.
One Arlington wrinkle for owners who hire out. The County lets an owner hold a residential permit on one address every two years and strongly suggests the contractor pull it, so the plumber you hire should be the permit holder. And if a pipe lets go at night, Virginia’s building code lets an emergency repair go in first, with the permit application reaching the County by the end of the next working day. Close to the city, freezes are shorter than they are out in the western counties, but a pipe in an outside wall of an old frame house still splits.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
What you’d notice
A supply pipe leaks all the time and a drain leaks only when water runs upstairs. Ask the upstairs unit to run a shower while you watch the stain. If it grows, that’s a drain or a shower pan above, and it’s a conversation with the neighbor and the association.
Galvanized steel pipe rusts from the inside, and the threads at each fitting go first. Brown water after the tap sits, or a damp drip at a joint in the basement, usually means more of that pipe is close behind.
Old copper fails in pinholes: a fine mist or a green crust on a pipe in the basement ceiling. One pinhole is a repair. Several in a year on the same run is the pipe telling you it’s thinning everywhere.
A brown ring under a bathroom, or a soft spot in the drywall, is water that’s been finding its way down for a while. A supply pipe leaks all the time; a drain only leaks when somebody runs water upstairs, and that difference tells us where to look first.
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Before the first hard freeze
A pipe usually bursts in the hours after a cold snap, when the ice inside it thaws and the split starts to run. Five things to do before it gets that cold, then call us if something already looks wrong.
Disconnect every garden hose. A hose left on traps water in the spigot, and that’s the most common split we see. If the spigot has a shutoff inside the house, close it and open the outside tap to drain it.
A kitchen or bathroom sink on an outside wall gets the coldest air in the house. On the coldest nights, open the cabinet doors so room heat reaches the pipes, and let that tap drip.
Close crawl space vents and the garage door for the winter. Pipes that run through a crawl space, a garage ceiling or an unheated room over the garage are the ones that freeze first.
Find it now, before you need it: usually where the water line comes through the basement or crawl space wall, near the meter or the water heater. Make sure it turns. When a pipe bursts, that valve is the difference between a mop and a contractor.
Keep the thermostat at 55 or higher while you’re gone, and ask someone to look in if a cold snap comes. A frozen pipe that thaws with nobody home runs for days.
Find a pipe that’s frozen, or water where it shouldn’t be? Shut the main off and call us at (703) 997-9757. A diagnosis visit is $49, or $250 after hours, and you get the repair price before we cut into anything.
Your pipes, your paperwork
The sanitary lateral, from the house to the County’s sewer main, is the property owner’s to build and maintain. Before calling a plumber about a backup, Arlington asks you to call its sewer line, 703-228-6555: crews check the main and clear a blockage there at no charge, and if the main is flowing, the problem is in your line. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who fixes it
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
The County wants the contractor on the permit. Ask who pulls it, and whether they’ve worked in your building before, because a condo with a freight elevator and quiet hours changes how a repair is scheduled.
Anyone can check on the state’s license lookup. Ours is Virginia Class A contractor license, on every van.
A good leak call starts at the meter and the shutoffs, then narrows it down with pressure and moisture readings. The drywall comes open in one spot, not five.
Every repair on our list has a range, and you hear where yours lands before anything is cut. If someone won’t say until the job is done, keep looking.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
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Where we work
Next door to Arlington: Falls Church, Alexandria, Dunn Loring, Annandale and McLean.
Questions
Probably not. The County flushes hydrants each spring and the sediment can reach your taps. Run the cold tap in the tub for a few minutes. If it clears, wait a day. If a single tap stays brown, or the water never clears, call us.
If the whole building is off, it’s the building’s or the County’s. If only your unit lost water, check your shutoff valve and your neighbors. A closed or failed valve in your unit is yours, and we can come out.
Shut off the main water valve, then turn off the water heater (gas to pilot, or the breaker for electric). Open a faucet at the lowest point of the house to drain what’s left in the pipes. Then call (703) 997-9757: a person answers day or night, and our emergency plumbing team is on 24/7.
A plumbing diagnosis visit is $49, or $250 after hours. Finding a leak you can’t see is $200 to $500, and most water pipe repairs run $450 to $650. You get the number before we start.
Ready when you are
Shut off the main, then call, or send the form at the top. You get the price before the work, and if it can wait until morning, we’ll tell you that too.
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.