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For sewer line repair in Annandale, 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 Annandale under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276, and SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Sewer and water line replacement in Annandale, Wakefield and Woodburn, for houses from the 1950s and 60s, with the camera run and the dig planned before the price. 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 Annandale
The typical owner’s house here went up in 1967, so most Annandale yards hold two pipes that are pushing sixty: the sewer going out to the street and the water line coming in from the meter. Neither one is the county’s or the water company’s problem. Fairfax County puts the whole sewer lateral on you, all the way to the main, and Fairfax Water’s rules say any repair or replacement of the service pipe on your side is yours too, at your cost. So when one of them fails, the job and the bill land on the same person.
Of the two, the water line is the one people miss. A lot of houses this age came in on galvanized steel, which rusts from the inside until the shower barely runs on the second floor, or on copper that’s held up but now pinholes. The tell is a strip of lawn by the front walk that stays green in August, or a bill that climbs with nothing dripping inside. Fairfax Water has a leak adjustment for an unknown underground leak on your line, so keep the bill and call them once it’s fixed.
On the sewer side, what the job costs here is mostly the yard. Wakefield and the streets around Canterbury Woods are nearly all detached houses set back on deep lots, with mature oaks and maples over the front lawn and a driveway the line often runs under. A longer run and a deeper trench move you up the range, and a tree in the path changes where we dig. We walk the line with you, mark the trench, and say which shrubs and which stretch of sod come up before you sign.
Where the lateral crosses under Little River Turnpike, Columbia Pike or another state road, a VDOT permit joins the county plumbing permit, and that’s a different job from a break by the foundation. Woodburn and the garden apartments near the Annandale crossroads are their own case: a building usually shares one sewer and one water service, so a line there goes through the association, not the owner of one unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annandale | 1967 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, galvanized water line. |
| Wakefield | 1968 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, about 8 in 10 | Clay or cast iron sewer, galvanized water line. |
| Woodburn | 1968 | single-family houses, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 6 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
In an Annandale rambler with sixty-year-old pipe, the call that ends in a new line usually starts as the third main line clearing in two years. Once the camera shows the pipe has cracked or dropped, another cleaning is money spent on a line that’s already done.
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.
A maple planted when the house was new is now big enough to send roots after the water in a sewer line. Roots get in at the joints and keep coming back after every cleaning.
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Choosing who replaces it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you a line replacement, us included.
On a deep Annandale lot the trench is the biggest thing you’ll notice for a month. Ask how the soil goes back, whether the sod and the walk are in the price, and what happens near the big tree.
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
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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 Annandale: Falls Church, Springfield, Burke, Fairfax and Vienna.
Questions
Sometimes. If both went in with the house and the water line is galvanized, doing them together can mean one trench and one yard repair instead of two. If the water line is copper and sound, we leave it and tell you so.
No. Their rules put the service pipe on your side of the meter on you, repair and replacement both. They own the meter and the main; the line under your lawn is yours.
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
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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 Annandale 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.