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For sewer line repair in Alexandria, 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 Alexandria under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276, and SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Sewer and water line replacement in Alexandria, from Old Town row houses to Fort Hunt and Kingstowne lots, with the permit and the street work planned first. 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 Alexandria
Over half of City homes sit in apartment and condo buildings and another fifth are townhouses, so a replacement here is rarely a long run across a big lawn. It is often a short, deep line under a front step, a brick walk or a narrow side passage, with a neighbor’s wall a few feet away. That changes the job more than the pipe does. Where the trench can’t go, the answer may be a different route or lining, and the camera tells us which before anyone quotes.
In the City, a new connection to the main takes a lateral permit from Transportation and Environmental Services, and the same application covers the excavation and any sidewalk, lane or street closure. So the dig gets scheduled around parking and foot traffic as well as your calendar. Ask whoever bids to say who pulls that permit and who books the closure. Out in Fort Hunt, Belle Haven and Kingstowne you’re under Fairfax County’s rules, where a VDOT permit joins the county’s if the line crosses a state road.
Water is a separate call here. The City says Virginia American Water maintains the mains and the service connections to homes, not the City. Where its pipe stops and yours starts is something we won’t guess at on a page, so ask the company before a plumber digs for a leak. Older houses are the ones most likely to have an aging line coming in. On the county side, Fairfax Water’s rule is plainer: the service pipe on your side of the meter is yours to replace.
In a condo or a shared row, the first question is whose pipe it is. One sewer or water service often feeds several units before it reaches the street, and the association decides, so a unit owner can’t dig on their own say. Detached houses in Fort Hunt are the other end: a long front yard, mature trees and a drive to go under, where the cost is the yard.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what the buried pipe usually is in houses like them.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What’s usually in the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Alexandria | 1970 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, copper water line. |
| Rose Hill | 1969 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, galvanized water line. |
| Franconia | 1986 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| Fort Hunt | 1963 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, about 8 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, galvanized water line. |
| Kingstowne | 1994 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| Woodlawn | 1976 | townhouses, about 4 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, copper water line. |
| Lincolnia | 1982 | single-family houses, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | PVC sewer; a sag or a shifted joint. |
| Mount Vernon | 1967 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, galvanized water line. |
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
Water at the bottom of a basement wall on a dry week, or a sunken patch in the walk, can be a leaking water line or a failed sewer joint. Both sit a few feet from the foundation. The camera and a pressure check say which line it is.
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 a City lot that paperwork can set the schedule. A bid that doesn’t name the permit, the closure and who restores the brick or concrete is leaving it for later.
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.
Hard to find service like this in Alexandria.
…we had swift and professional responses for multiple plumbing and HVAC needs in our Rosemont Alexandria condo
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 Alexandria: Arlington, Springfield, Falls Church, Annandale and Burke.
Questions
Start with Virginia American Water, which the City names as responsible for its water mains and service connections. Ask where its part ends at your property. What’s past that point is yours, and we can replace it once you know where the line begins.
Often, with the City’s permit and a planned closure. Some lines are better lined than dug where a trench would tear up a historic walk or a shared wall. We check both on camera and tell you what each costs before you pick.
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 Alexandria 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.