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For drain cleaning in Burke, 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 Burke are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Burke, from the 1970s houses by Lake Braddock to the Burke Centre cluster townhomes. 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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Our plumbing team with the drain machine, the jetter and the sewer camera.
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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 Burke
Burke is mostly houses and townhouses, almost nothing in between. About 56 in 100 owner homes are detached and 37 in 100 are townhouses, and only 4 in 100 are condos. That means a shared building stack is rare here, and a clog is nearly always in your own line. The nearest thing to a shared pipe is the run under a townhouse cluster, which you’ll feel as the lowest unit’s tub or floor drain filling when its neighbors run water.
Burke Centre has 5,862 homes in five neighborhoods, the Commons, the Landings, the Oaks, the Ponds and the Woods, and 65 clusters. Across Burke more than a third of the homes are townhouses. More than half of Burke Centre went up in the 1980s, when builders had moved the drains to PVC, so the clog is usually something that went down: hair, wipes, grease from a busy kitchen. We clear from the cleanout and cable out to the main, and it rarely needs more than one visit.
Here is the part that surprises people in Burke Centre. Clearing a drain is not an excavation. The Conservancy’s covenants require written approval before digging or changing grade, but a cable through a cleanout touches neither. If the camera shows a broken pipe and the fix means opening the yard, the application comes first, and we’ll tell you that when we show you the picture.
Around Burke Lake Road and Lake Braddock, about half the owner homes went up in the 1970s. Houses from those years sit on both sides of the changeover from cast iron to plastic, and a kitchen line that is still iron is scaled and narrow by now. Hot water and a plunger buy a week. The cable restores the full bore, and the camera, $89 on the same visit, tells you whether to expect it back.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and where houses that age usually clog.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | Where it usually clogs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burke | 1979 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| Burke Centre | 1982 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | Wipes and grease in PVC; a low spot outside. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Which clog it is
Big dinners, a dishwasher running every night and a disposal all send grease down the same pipe. In a townhouse the kitchen is near the end of the run, so that’s where it cools and builds. Run the hottest water for a minute after the pots are done.
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.
Townhouse rows often share a line before it reaches the street. If a neighbor is fighting the same clog, tell us, because the fix may be on common pipe the association handles.
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Choosing who clears it
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
Clearing a clog needs nobody’s signature. A plumber who talks about permits for a simple clearing is selling you a bigger job. Approval matters when the fix means digging, and that comes after a camera, not before.
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 Burke: Fairfax Station, Springfield, Annandale, Fairfax and Clifton.
Questions
No. The covenants name excavation and changes in grade as the work that needs written approval, and cabling a line from the cleanout is neither. If the camera finds a broken pipe and digging is the answer, apply before anybody breaks ground.
Because the clog is in your branch or in the run to the cluster line, not in the line the two of you share. Start with a cable from the tub and the cleanout. If your neighbor starts having trouble too, the clog has moved down to the shared pipe.
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 Burke 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.