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For sewer line repair in Arlington, a sewer line dug up and replaced is $7,500 to $9,000. Call SwiftPro, rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews, at (703) 997-9757, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Price range
$7,500-$9,000
8yrs @ 7.99%
$106/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$81/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
We install in Arlington under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276, and SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Sewer and water line replacement in Arlington, where the County owns the water pipe up to your meter, you own the rest, and the camera comes before the dig. A water service line from the meter to the house is $3,500 to $8,000. A camera down the line, added to a visit we’re already on, is $89; on its own it’s $500 to $1,700.
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An excavated trench in a Northern Virginia yard, the buried service pipes open for the repair.
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What it costs
From the same price book as our plumbing price list: the dig, the new pipe, the connections at both ends, the permit and putting the yard back.
Sewer line replacement, dug up
$7,500 to $9,000
or $125/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Water service line replacement
$3,500 to $8,000
or $58/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
Sewer camera inspection on its own
$500 to $1,700
Monthly figures: 60mo @ 0% APR on each starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. Longer plans lower the payment and cost more in total. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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Where you land in the range is mostly depth and length: how far the house sits from the main, how deep the line runs, and whether it crosses a driveway, a walk or a big tree’s roots.
Lining the old pipe instead of digging is quoted off the footage once the camera has been through it, so there’s no lining number on this page. When a line can be lined, we price both and you pick.
What’s different in Arlington
Arlington splits the water line more cleanly than most places. The County’s own service line page says Arlington owns the pipe from the main in the street to the meter, and the property owner owns everything from the meter to the plumbing inside the house. Only County staff touch the meter itself. So when the water line fails on your side, we connect to your side of the meter and the County’s part stays the County’s. On many lots the meter box sits out near the curb, which makes your stretch the whole yard. Ask the County where yours is before anyone quotes.
The sewer works the other way around. Arlington’s sewer page puts backups in the private lateral on the homeowner and the main on the County, but it never says where one turns into the other. The County’s building package adds that the owner builds and maintains the lateral to the main and that Inspection Services has to approve it. Since the page doesn’t mark the line, call Water and Sewer Engineering and ask where the County’s pipe starts on your street. Do it before the trench is open, not after.
Then there’s the shape of an Arlington lot. About a quarter of homes here are detached, so a lot of what we dig for is a rowhouse or a narrow house where the trench runs beside a neighbor’s wall, under a front walk or across the sidewalk strip. The 104 rowhouses of Glebewood Village each have a basement, and a basement house sends its lateral out low, so expect the dig to go deeper there. The yard is small, and that changes how the soil is stacked and where the walk comes up, not whether the job can be done.
On the water side, the County gives owners a magnet test: if a magnet sticks to the dull gray pipe where it enters your house, that part is galvanized steel. With a median owner home built in 1960, that’s worth the thirty seconds. Arlington says it found no lead service lines and never used lead on its own part of the line. If yours is galvanized, that’s the stretch we’d price replacing along with the sewer, while the yard is already open.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
When it’s time
If the pressure falls at every tap and the house has been quiet, look at the meter. A dial that keeps turning with everything off points to a leak between the meter and the house, which is your pipe and your repair.
Lines laid before 1980 were often clay, cast iron or galvanized steel. Each of those wears out on its own clock, and by now many of them have been in the ground fifty years or more.
If the main line has been cleared twice in a year and backs up again, the pipe itself is usually the trouble: a sag, a break or roots coming through a joint. Clearing it again buys time, not a fix.
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Choosing who replaces it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you a line replacement, us included.
On the water line the answer is the meter. On the sewer, the County doesn’t publish the connection point, so a good quote names who confirmed it with Water and Sewer Engineering and who is pulling the permit.
A line replacement quoted without a camera is a guess at what’s down there. Ask to see the break, the sag or the roots, and where on the line they sit.
Some lines can be lined in place, some can’t. The installer who quotes only one way, without saying why the other won’t work, is the one to question.
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.
Plumbing system test and maintenance, including snaking the sewer line As a follow up, Tyson came out to check the system and gave us some good preventive maintenance tips.
Where we work
Next door to Arlington: Falls Church, Alexandria, Annandale, McLean and Vienna.
Questions
Only the part from the main to the meter. From the meter to the house is the owner’s, and that is the part we replace. If the leak turns out to be on the County side of the meter, we’ll show you and tell you to call them.
The County’s Inspection Services Division, per its own building package, and the owner is responsible for the lateral to the main. We handle the permit and the inspection as part of the job.
Dug up and replaced, $7,500 to $9,000, with the permit and putting the yard back in that number. A water service line from the meter to the house is $3,500 to $8,000. Where you land depends on depth, length and what sits on top of the line.
Yes. The camera shows whether it’s one bad joint we can repair, a run we can line, or a pipe that has to come out. Added to a visit we’re already on it’s $89.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. We run a camera, show you the footage and where the trouble is, and you get the price in writing before anyone digs.
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.