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For drain cleaning in Falls Church, 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 Falls Church are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Falls Church, from 1950s houses around Lake Barcroft to older Cape Cods in the City. We find where the clog is and price it first. 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 Falls Church
Falls Church has some of the oldest houses in our area. A third of the City’s homes predate 1960, and in Lake Barcroft it is nearly half, with a typical owner’s house from 1958. A house that old has been remodeled at least once, and the pipe didn’t always get remodeled with it. The kitchen got new cabinets and a new sink, and the drain under the floor is the original one, with a new trap hooked up to it.
In a 1950s house that drain is usually cast iron, and in the oldest it can be galvanized steel, which rusts shut from the inside as scale builds. Galvanized drain pipe makes a particular kind of call: the sink drains slowly, you clear it, it drains for a week, and it slows again. A cable cannot undo years of scale, so we will tell you if the line is that far gone before we spend your time running it.
Remodels bring their own clogs. A 1950s house with a second bath added in the 1980s joins new plastic to old iron under the floor, and the joint between them is a step. Paper and hair catch on a step. When the new bath drains slowly and the old one doesn’t, ask what year it was added.
The City looks different: close to half of its homes are in apartment or condo buildings, so the first question on a drain call is whether the sink is in a unit or a house. For the single-family houses in the City and Idylwood, built in the 1960s and 70s, the clogs are cast iron in the kitchen and a tub drain plugged with hair. The condo version is the same, with the building’s pipe behind it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Falls Church | 1957 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Roots in clay joints out in the yard. |
| Bailey’s Crossroads | 1980 | condo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 | electricity, about 5 in 10 | Your branch drains; the building’s stack. |
| Idylwood | 1975 | condo and apartment buildings, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | Your branch drains; the building’s stack. |
| City of Falls Church | 1964 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Your branch drains; the building’s stack. |
| Lake Barcroft | 1958 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | Roots in clay joints out in the yard. |
| Seven Corners | 1972 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Your branch drains; the building’s stack. |
| Pimmit Hills | 1961 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Roots in clay joints out in the yard. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
ZIP 22046, plus a few City addresses in 22042 and 22044.
22041 to 22044: West Falls Church, Idylwood, Lake Barcroft, Seven Corners and Bailey’s Crossroads.
Which clog it is
A 1950s kitchen line clogs a little at a time, and the layer builds on the pipe wall. A drain that has needed a cable every year for three years doesn’t have a clog problem. It has a pipe problem, and a camera look is the way to see how much pipe is left.
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.
With galvanized or heavily scaled iron, a good plumber says so and shows the camera, not just runs the cable and sends the bill. If the pipe is going, you want to know before you pay for the third clearing.
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.
Plumber showed up on time and fixed my drain clog without issue. Very reasonably priced as well. Highly recommended.
Where we work
Next door to Falls Church: Dunn Loring, Arlington, Annandale, McLean and Vienna.
Questions
Often it is the joint where the new plastic meets the old iron. Paper and hair catch on the step. Clearing the new branch from its fixture usually fixes it, and a camera shows the joint if it keeps coming back.
Not by itself. If it drains and clears well, it can stay. When a cable keeps coming back with rust flakes, or the line slows within a season, that is the time to look at replacement, and we’ll show you the picture first.
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 Falls Church 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.