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For drain cleaning in Fairfax, 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 Fairfax are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Fairfax, from 1960s kitchen lines in the City to townhouse rows in Fair Lakes. We tell you what we find and price it before the machine runs. 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 Fairfax
The median owner’s house inside the City of Fairfax dates from 1966. A 1966 kitchen has a cast iron branch under the floor that has spent six decades carrying dish water. Grease cools in it, soap forms a film on it, and the bore has narrowed. A sink that drains a little more slowly every year is not a mystery here. It is a pipe that has been closing in for a long time, and the cable that opens it is the same one that opened it the last time.
Bathrooms in those houses clog differently. A 1960s tub with a pop-up stopper catches hair at the stopper arm, not in the pipe, and we pull it out with a hook before any machine is needed. If the tub still drains slowly after the stopper is clean, the problem is the trap or the branch under the floor, and that is a cable job.
The county side is a different animal. In Fair Lakes about a third of homes are townhouses and a quarter are condo or apartment buildings, with more than four in ten homes built since 2000. Those drains are plastic, so a slow one tends to be what went down it. A fresh wipe jam clears with one pass; a main line that backs up the lowest unit is the building’s, and we’ll tell you if that’s what we see.
About a third of City homes predate 1960. A house that old and still on its original kitchen drain has probably been cleaned before, so tell us the history. How often, how far the cable went, whether it came back with roots or grease. That history tells us whether a proper cutter or a camera is the next step.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Oaks | 1995 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Your branch drains; the building’s stack. |
| City of Fairfax | 1966 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| Fairfax Station | 1982 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | Wipes and grease in PVC; a low spot outside. |
| Kings Park West | 1976 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| Merrifield | 1990 | condo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Your branch drains; the building’s stack. |
| Fair Lakes | 1998 | townhouses, about 3 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Wipes and grease in PVC; a low spot outside. |
| Long Branch | 1968 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| Mantua | 1968 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Most of the Fairfax Station Census place, in the table, has Fairfax mail, so it counts here.
Which clog it is
A slow tub is usually hair at the stopper. A slow kitchen sink is grease in the branch. A tub that drains slowly after the stopper is clean, and a sink that comes back in a month, are the two that need the cable.
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.
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.
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Choosing who clears it
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
A good plumber starts with the simple fix. A tub that is slow because of hair at the stopper does not need a machine, and a bill for one is a bad sign.
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.
I would gladly recommend them to anyone in the greater Fairfax/Alexandria area without reservation.
Swiftpro came out the same day I called when my AC was out and had it fixed in less than an hour after arriving.
Plumber showed up on time and fixed my drain clog without issue. Very reasonably priced as well. Highly recommended.
Questions
In a 1960s house, the drain is probably cast iron with a rough inside wall that holds grease. A cable opens the middle but leaves the coating, so the sink slows again. A bigger cutter or a jetter on the next visit removes more of it.
Newer pipe is smoother and clogs from what went down it, not from age. The extra question in a townhouse row is whether the clog is yours or on a shared line.
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 Fairfax 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.