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For drain cleaning in Clifton, 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 Clifton are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Clifton, from century-old frame houses on Main Street to 1980s subdivisions off Springstone Drive. We clear the drains inside the house. 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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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 Clifton
There are two Cliftons for drains, and they barely overlap. Inside the town, around Main Street and Chapel Road, the typical owner’s house dates from 1945 and more than half predate 1960. The town was chartered in 1902, and some of those frame houses have been added onto more than once. A kitchen that was moved to the back in 1960, a bathroom slipped into a porch: each addition tied a new drain into the old one, usually with a long, shallow run.
Those long runs are where the trouble is. An old branch that crosses a crawlspace or a basement ceiling for twenty feet with barely any fall will hold grease and paper, and a cable has to turn through several fittings to get past them. We go in slowly, ask where the additions are, and tell you before we start when the pipe may be an older material that doesn’t like a hard cutter.
Around Springstone Drive and Union Mill Road it is a different house entirely: about nine in ten homes in that Census tract went up in the 1980s. Pipe that age is plastic, so the clog here is nearly always something that went down: grease from a kitchen with a disposal, hair in a tub, a wipe. One clearing ends it, and the cable comes back with the answer.
Whichever Clifton you live in, the lowest drain in the house is the one to watch. When it slows, don’t wait for it to back up. Our job is the drains inside the house, from the fixture to the first cleanout or wall, and we’ll tell you where we stop. If the trouble is past that point, we’ll say that too and show you what the cable found.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Clifton mail outside the town: five- to ten-acre lots in the Occoquan watershed on Clifton, Compton and Yates Ford Roads, mostly on septic, and the 1980s subdivisions off Springstone Drive and Union Mill Road on county sewer.
ZIP 20124 as a whole, the Town included: its own homes are too few for steady Census figures.
Which clog it is
Every turn in an old drain is a place for grease or paper to catch. If the kitchen slows after the family room was built, the new branch may be what’s catching. Tell us the year of the addition and we’ll go in with that in mind.
If the kitchen sink backs up but the bathroom drains fine, the clog is in that branch, usually grease or food in the kitchen, hair and soap in a tub. That’s a one-fixture clearing.
When the washer drains and water shows up in a basement shower or floor drain, or flushing a toilet bubbles the tub, the clog is past the branches in the main line. Stop running water until it’s cleared.
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Choosing who clears it
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
In an older Clifton house, ask whether the plumber wants to know where the kitchen and baths have been added. It tells them where to expect turns and older pipe.
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.
Idk why they told me on the phone it cost me 49 but whn he got here it cost me 260 for clogged toilet
Where we work
Next door to Clifton: Fairfax Station, Burke, Manassas, Centreville and Fairfax.
Questions
Almost always. A single slow fixture means a clog in its own branch, and a cable through that fixture usually ends it. If every drain is slow, or the lowest one rises, that is a bigger job, and we’ll tell you which before we start.
Usually, with the right cutter. We start with the smallest head that will open the line and stop if the pipe feels soft or flaky, and we show you why.
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 Clifton 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.