Wipes that say flushable are not
They don’t break up like paper. In a long run from a primary bath, a wipe finds a rough joint and holds on, and hair joins it. Put them in the trash.
McLean, Virginia
Drain cleaning in McLean.
For drain cleaning in McLean, 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 McLean are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Drain cleaning in McLean, where three homes in ten went up this century. We tell you what the cable finds 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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- Camera when it’s worth it
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What it costs
What drain cleaning costs in McLean.
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 McLean
A third of McLean homes are less than 25 years old, and newer houses clog on what they were built for.
About 31 percent of McLean’s owner homes went up in 2000 or later, which is far more than most towns. These are large houses, often rebuilt on old lots, with kitchens that have a prep sink, a disposal and a dishwasher, and primary baths with a soaking tub and a rain shower. The pipes are new plastic, and they don’t wear out. They clog from use: grease, hair, soap film, and wipes that were told they were flushable.
A soaking tub is a good example. It drains a lot of water in a hurry through a pipe sized for a normal tub, and the first slow drain on a new house is usually that one, with a film of soap and body wash on the walls. We clear it from the overflow or the drain and tell you how to keep it from building again. A kitchen island sink with a long run to the stack is the other common call.
The rest of McLean is a wide mix. The median owner’s home dates from 1978, and about 12 percent predate 1960. Those older houses clog the older way, with cast iron that has scaled inside, and we treat them with a smaller cutter first. In a tower in 22102 the first call goes to management, since a clog that appears in several units is the building’s. A clog in one unit’s kitchen line is yours.
The model for a McLean drain call is simple: tell us the year the drain was installed and what is on it. A teardown house from 2015 with a soaking tub and a wet bar is a different job from a 1950s split-level with one kitchen. We ask for a few facts before we send someone, and we price the clearing before the machine runs.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
What’s under the floors across McLean.
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and where houses that age usually clog.
By the numbers
McLean houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
McLean
ZIPs 22101 and 22102 as a whole: every McLean address, Tysons included.
- Built before 1980about 4 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 3 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 5 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 7 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 4 in 10 Census
- In a condo, the drain inside your unit is usually yours and the stack in the wall is the building’s. Check before anyone clears a shared line.
Which clog it is
One slow drain, or the whole house backing up in McLean.
Only one sink or tub is slow
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.
Water comes up the lowest drain
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
How to pick the best plumber for drain cleaning in McLean.
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
Do they ask about the tub or the kitchen before the cable?
Fixtures in newer McLean houses are bigger and run farther. A plumber who asks what’s on the line brings the right head the first time.
Do they price it before they run the cable?
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.
Do they push chemicals or a new line on the first visit?
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.
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What our customers say.
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On July 3, I called to have a clogged floor drain cleared. Thankfully they arrived on July 4th which was greatly appreciated. No one else would come out do to the holiday. Thank you
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Questions
Drain questions from McLean.
My McLean soaking tub drains slowly. Is it a clog?
Probably, and it’s likely at the trap or the first few feet of the drain, where soap and hair build up. We clear it with a small cable from the fixture. If it returns in a month, a camera look shows why.
Does a new McLean house still need drain cleaning?
Yes, sooner than you’d expect. New plastic doesn’t fail, but what goes down it does. A first clog in a house under 25 years old is almost always grease, hair or a wipe.
How much does drain cleaning cost in McLean?
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.
Should I pour a drain cleaner in first?
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
Get the water moving again.
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
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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 McLean 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.