Open 24/7 for emergencies
Call us after hours anywhere in Fairfax and the plumbing visit is $250; (703) 997-9757 is answered by a person through the night. Fixing a burst or leaking water pipe usually comes to $450 to $650, written down for your OK before work starts. Weekdays the visit is $49. Our Chantilly shop is a short drive out Route 50, and every plumber is a SwiftPro employee, rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews.
Describe what you’re seeing. If it’s safe to leave until daylight, you’ll hear that from us.
A burst pipe in a Fairfax house? Close the main valve inside the foundation wall where the water comes in, then call. Gas smell? Get out first, then call 911 or Washington Gas at 844-927-4427 from outside.
5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews
One of our plumbers tying new PVC into an old cast iron drain stack through an opened wall.
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Licensed and insuredVirginia Class A contractor #2705192276
24/7 emergency serviceWe answer day or night, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
Our own plumbers, our own trucksNobody here is a subcontractor with a magnet on the door
The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
Before anything else
Fairfax knows fast water: NOAA’s storm records have Route 50 at Route 123 under water on August 15, 2019, and Accotink Creek up seven feet one July day in 2025. Water from a pipe is smaller, but it spreads just as fast. In order:
Valve stuck or leaking at the stem? Leave it and call; we’ll walk you through the next step. What to do after a pipe bursts.
Supply valves where the water comes into a basement: know which one is the main.
City, county or you
Fairfax has two sewer owners. In the City, Public Works Wastewater keeps the mains, and the owner handles the lateral all the way to the main in the right-of-way, but every City home pays a small yearly lateral charge on its Fairfax Water bill, and the City repair program can reimburse an eligible lateral repair or replacement. Keep our invoice and photos for the claim. On the county side, {a(FFX_CO_FAQ, ‘Fairfax County’)} also puts the whole lateral on the owner. Fairfax Water supplies both.
| What’s going on | Call first | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sewage at the lowest drain, in the City (22030) | City Public Works, then us | The City keeps its mains. If the main is fine, the lateral is yours out to it, and that’s our job. |
| Sewage at the lowest drain, on the county side | Fairfax County, then us | The county asks to be called first when its main might be blocked, and sends an inspector. |
| A lateral collapsed or full of roots, in the City | Us, and the City’s program | We camera it and price the fix. The City repays 25% or 75% of an approved repair, depending on how much of the lateral is replaced. |
| Water coming up through the lawn | Us, then Fairfax Water | The service line is yours to repair. Fairfax Water can adjust the bill for an unknown underground leak once it’s fixed. |
| Rusty water and a pinhole leak | Us, tonight if it’s spraying | Galvanized supply pipe from the 1950s and 60s rusts through from inside. We fix the leak and price a repipe separately. |
Fairfax prices
SwiftPro’s own price book, the same on Main Street as in Fair Lakes. The visit finds what failed; the repair is its own written number that you approve before we touch it.
After-hours visit
$250
A licensed plumber at your Fairfax house at night, on a weekend or a holiday, finding the cause.
Weekday visit
$49
The same diagnosis in business hours, when the problem can wait.
Burst or leaking water pipe
$450 to $650
The failed section out, new pipe in, galvanized joined to copper where it has to be.
Main sewer line cleaning
$550 to $1,650
Clearing roots or a clog from the lateral once the City or county has checked its main.
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Fairfax calls
What to do first, and what each fix runs.
Main off, then look for rust stains along the pipe near the leak.
About a third of the City’s homes were built before 1960, many with galvanized steel supply pipe that narrows and rusts from the inside out. The plumber cuts out the bad length and joins copper in, usually $450 to $650. A whole-house repipe is a separate conversation. Pipe repair prices.
No laundry, no dishwasher, no showers until it’s cleared.
Clay and Orangeburg laterals crack and let roots in. Clearing the line runs $550 to $1,650, and a camera look on the same visit, $89, shows whether it needs replacing. In the City, ask about the Wastewater Repair Program before the repair. Drain and sewer prices.
Close the main, drain the lines, and open the cabinet doors on outside walls next time it freezes.
Split-levels and ramblers from the 1960s run pipe through crawl spaces and exterior walls, where it freezes first. We replace the split and look for others along the same run.
Get out of the house first, and make the call from the street.
Don’t flip a switch or start a car in the garage. Call 911 or Washington Gas at 844-927-4427 from outside. When the gas company has the leak made safe, our plumbers in Fairfax track it down on your side of the meter and repair the line. Gas line repair.
5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews
…advice received on managing a leak upstream that exceeded the scope of this company. We were given recommendations for contacting Fairfax Water…
We had Tyson out for our main line leaking underground, he explained the scope of work for replacement and set great expectations.…
…He also was careful to point out potential problems with old valves that had not been moved for 30 years and the fact they may need to be replaced if they failed.
Each quote is a Google review, word for word, trimmed to the plumbing part. All our reviews.
Who you get
Family-owned SwiftPro runs its plumbers out of 4230 Lafayette Center Dr N in Chantilly, and the one who comes to your Fairfax house works for us.
The SwiftPro plumbing team and their sewer camera, drain machine and jetter.
Fairfax and around it
Daytime plumbing prices are on our plumbing page, and our Fairfax page has heating and cooling. Our plumbers also cover Centreville, Chantilly, Vienna, Oakton and Reston. We answer day or night, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
Two of our plumbers between the furnace and the water heater.
Questions from Fairfax
The after-hours visit is $250 and the weekday visit $49, in the City and on the county side alike. A water pipe that split or started leaking is most often a $450 to $650 repair, and you approve it in writing first.
The owner, all the way out to the City main. The City’s Wastewater Repair Program then repays part of it: 25% when only the private side or only the stretch in the right-of-way is fixed, and 75% for a full replacement out to the main. It has a fast approval for emergencies, so get the City on the phone before the digging starts.
On the county side, the county’s 24-hour line first if its main might be blocked: it sends an inspector, and if the main is running, the clog is in your lateral and the next call is ours. In the City, Public Works keeps the sewer mains and has its own after-hours line.
Its rules allow an adjustment for an unknown underground leak on your own service line once it’s repaired. The pipe itself is yours to fix, from the meter to the house, so keep our invoice for the claim.
Age. The typical owner-occupied house in the City was built around 1966, and about two thirds went up before 1980: galvanized supply pipe that rusts from the inside, cast iron drains, and clay or even Orangeburg sewer line that roots get into. Fair Lakes, mostly late 1990s, sees much less of it.
Fairfax Water’s rules put it just inside the foundation wall, where the service line comes in, usually in the basement or a utility room on the lowest level. Old gate valves stick, so try yours gently while nothing is leaking.
Any hour in Fairfax
Call and a person picks up, whatever the hour. Tell us what broke and which valves you’ve closed. If daylight is fine, fill in the form up top and the office will set a time with 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
