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For sewer line repair in McLean, a sewer line dug up and replaced is $7,500 to $9,000. Call SwiftPro, rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews, at (703) 997-9757, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Price range
$7,500-$9,000
8yrs @ 7.99%
$106/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$81/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
We install in McLean under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276, and SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Sewer and water line replacement in McLean and Tysons, where the lot is big, the line is long and the trench has to get past the trees and the driveway. A water service line from the meter to the house is $3,500 to $8,000. A camera down the line, added to a visit we’re already on, is $89; on its own it’s $500 to $1,700.
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An excavated trench in a Northern Virginia yard, the buried service pipes open for the repair.
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What it costs
From the same price book as our plumbing price list: the dig, the new pipe, the connections at both ends, the permit and putting the yard back.
Sewer line replacement, dug up
$7,500 to $9,000
or $125/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Water service line replacement
$3,500 to $8,000
or $58/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
Sewer camera inspection on its own
$500 to $1,700
Monthly figures: 60mo @ 0% APR on each starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. Longer plans lower the payment and cost more in total. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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Where you land in the range is mostly depth and length: how far the house sits from the main, how deep the line runs, and whether it crosses a driveway, a walk or a big tree’s roots.
Lining the old pipe instead of digging is quoted off the footage once the camera has been through it, so there’s no lining number on this page. When a line can be lined, we price both and you pick.
What’s different in McLean
About eight in ten homes in 22101 are detached, and the Census lists their median at nine or more rooms, the top bracket it has. Those are big houses set well back on big lots, which means a long walk from the front door to the street. That distance is the largest thing on a McLean quote, more than the age of the pipe. Fairfax County puts the whole lateral on the owner, under the road too, so you pay for every foot of it, and a state road such as Lewinsville Road or Chesterbrook Road adds a VDOT permit to the county’s.
The water line gets longer for the same reason. Fairfax Water’s rules make the service pipe on your side of the meter yours to repair or replace, and on a deep lot the meter box is often out near the street, so your side may be nearly as long as the sewer. A leak that long can run for weeks before the lawn shows it. Fairfax Water has an adjustment for an unknown underground leak, and the bill from the quarter you were losing water is what it asks about.
The trench runs through what a McLean yard is. Circular and long driveways, stone walls, irrigation lines and a mature tree every thirty feet all sit on the straight line from house to street, so we walk it with you and mark a route that misses what it can. Some streets sit above stream valleys: Pimmit Run and Little Pimmit Run have closed roads in storms, and ground near them can be wet when the trench opens. Ask what happens if it fills with water.
A hundred feet or more of lateral under a driveway is the case where dig and lining are worth pricing side by side. Where the camera says the pipe is still round and sound enough, lining it avoids opening the drive, and we’ll quote it from the footage. Where it has sagged or broken, the line has to come out. Our sewer line repair and replacement page shows how the two compare. The towers in 22102 don’t get this choice, since their pipes belong to the building.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what the buried pipe usually is in houses like them.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIPs 22101 and 22102 as a whole: every McLean address, Tysons included.
When it’s time
On a long McLean lateral, a third cleaning in two years usually means the problem is somewhere in the middle of the yard, not at the house. The camera shows how far out it is, which is what the replacement quote depends on.
If the main line has been cleared twice in a year and backs up again, the pipe itself is usually the trouble: a sag, a break or roots coming through a joint. Clearing it again buys time, not a fix.
A soft, green strip between the house and the street in dry weather, or a water bill that jumps with no leak inside, often means the water service line is leaking underground.
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Choosing who replaces it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you a line replacement, us included.
On a deep McLean lot the quote lives or dies on the route. Ask which trees, walls and driveway the line crosses, and whether the quote covers putting each one back.
A line replacement quoted without a camera is a guess at what’s down there. Ask to see the break, the sag or the roots, and where on the line they sit.
Some lines can be lined in place, some can’t. The installer who quotes only one way, without saying why the other won’t work, is the one to question.
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.
Plumbing system test and maintenance, including snaking the sewer line As a follow up, Tyson came out to check the system and gave us some good preventive maintenance tips.
Where we work
Next door to McLean: Vienna, Falls Church, Arlington, Annandale and Reston.
Questions
From the meter to the house, yes. Fairfax Water’s rules put the service pipe on your side on you. If you’re not sure where the meter sits, ask Fairfax Water or let us find it when we walk the yard.
Sometimes. It depends on what the camera shows: a pipe that has held its shape can often be lined, and one that has sagged or broken has to be replaced. We price both from the footage and you pick.
Dug up and replaced, $7,500 to $9,000, with the permit and putting the yard back in that number. A water service line from the meter to the house is $3,500 to $8,000. Where you land depends on depth, length and what sits on top of the line.
Yes. The camera shows whether it’s one bad joint we can repair, a run we can line, or a pipe that has to come out. Added to a visit we’re already on it’s $89.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. We run a camera, show you the footage and where the trouble is, and you get the price in writing before anyone digs.
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.