Almost every house in 22039 is detached, and eight in ten went up between 1980 and 1999, which puts the plumbing in the polybutylene and early PEX years. Most of the well houses sit west of Ox Road, on Hampton, Henderson, Wolf Run Shoals and Yates Ford Roads. These are big houses on big lots, with long supply runs, and the water has a long way to go before a leak shows up.
On a well there is a leak that city houses cannot have: the buried line from the wellhead to the house. It runs underground for as far as the lot is deep, and when it cracks, the pump runs more and the tank cycles, but nothing shows in the house. A soft patch in the yard in a dry week, or a pump that never seems to rest, is the clue. We pressure-test the line, dig only where the leak is, and show you the pipe before we close the trench.
Crosspointe is the other Fairfax Station. Its streets are Fairfax Water’s, which promises 20 psi at the main and no steady figure above it, and the pressure reducing valve on your side of the meter is yours. In Crosspointe and South Run, where the build years are almost entirely 1980 to 1999, a leak usually starts at a fitting, and the meter dial tells you quickly: shut every tap and watch it for ten minutes.
Four-bedroom houses with finished basements are the norm here. A pinhole or a split fitting above a basement ceiling can drip for weeks before the drywall shows it, and on a well the pump covers for it without any bill to warn you. After a repair on a well, the county says to have the water tested, since contamination can get in when the plumbing is opened. We’ll flag that at the end of the job.