A water stain on the ceiling below
If the shower sits over another room and a stain shows up under it, the first suspect is a drip behind the valve trim. Shut the water off at the stop or the stack, and call before the drywall softens.
Reston, Virginia
Shower repair in Reston.
For shower repair in Reston, the plumbing visit is $49, or $250 after hours. 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 Reston are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover shower repair in Reston, from cluster townhouses by Lake Anne to condos near the Wiehle station. The written price comes after you’ve seen the worn part. A cartridge, stems or a diverter usually lands at $250 to $450. A whole new valve, trim included, runs $950 to $1,400, and a new tub spout runs $200 to $400.
- The worn part shown to you before the price
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- Run hot and cold, with a toilet flushed, before we leave
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What it costs
What shower repair costs in Reston.
These are the same numbers on our shower and tub repair page, from jobs we’ve billed. The visit fee matches our plumbing price list.
Plumbing diagnosis visit
$49
Plumbing diagnosis visit, after hours
$250
Shower valve repair (cartridge, stems, handle, diverter)
$250 to $450
Shower valve replaced, new trim included
$950 to $1,400
Tub spout or diverter spout replaced
$200 to $400
Prices checked .
Where a repair lands in that range depends on the valve brand and how stuck the old cartridge is. You see the number in writing before anything comes apart.
A dripping sink or kitchen faucet is a different repair, with its own prices on our faucet repair page.
What’s different in Reston
In Reston the shower is usually upstairs in a cluster or a condo, so a slow drip ends up on a ceiling.
Only about one Reston home in five is detached. A third are in condo buildings and three in ten are townhouses, so most showers here are on the second floor of a shared building, with a neighbor’s room or your own family room underneath. A leak behind the trim doesn’t announce itself, and a slow drip is worth fixing early.
Reston Association’s overview says its design guidelines cover exterior work. A cartridge or a handle swap happens inside the house, so as we read it, it isn’t an RA matter. Your cluster or condo association may still want to know when plumbing is open, so a quick note to the manager is cheap.
Lake Anne opened in 1965, and about four homes in ten here predate 1980, including the clusters around Lake Anne, Hunters Woods and South Lakes. Showers that old may have two handles, or an early single-handle valve that jumps hot when a toilet flushes. Newer ones, built since 2000 in nearly a quarter of homes, are single-handle valves, and a drip there is a cartridge.
Water comes from Fairfax Water, whose Corbalis plant ran 4.1 to 10.8 grains per gallon in 2025. Hard water collects on a cartridge and shower head, and in a unit that’s been lived in for years, that often explains a handle that has gone stiff.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
What wears out in showers across Reston.
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what usually wears out in the showers of houses that age.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What usually wears out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reston | 1981 | condo and apartment buildings, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | A worn cartridge in an older single-handle valve. |
| Great Falls Crossing | 1993 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | A worn cartridge or a loose handle on a pressure-balancing valve. |
By the numbers
Reston houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Reston
- Built before 1980about 4 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 2 in 10 Census
- Most homes arecondo and apartment buildings, about 3 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 5 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 4 in 10 Census
- Most homes here are townhouses or condos, where the shower often sits over somebody’s ceiling, so a drip behind the trim gets fixed before it shows up as a stain below.
The signs
When a shower in Reston needs a plumber.
The handle is loose or spins
Usually a set screw under the cap that backed out, or worn teeth where the handle grips the cartridge. Tightening the screw only lasts if the teeth are still good.
It drips after it’s off
On a single-handle shower that’s the cartridge. On an older two-handle or three-handle shower, it’s the washers or the stems. Either one comes out the front, and the wall stays closed.
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Choosing who does it
How to pick who fixes a shower in Reston.
Questions to ask anybody who pulls your shower handle off, us included.
Will they put the shutoff problem in writing for your association?
In a cluster or a condo, management often asks what was done and why. A plumber who writes up the worn part and the fix makes that conversation easy.
Did they pull the handle before quoting a new valve?
Most loose handles and drips are a cartridge or a screw. A plumber who prices a new valve without looking inside first may be selling you a wall you didn’t need opened.
Did they test it with a toilet flushed?
A shower that runs fine on its own can still jump hot when someone flushes. Ask them to run it both ways before they pack up.
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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Questions
Shower repair questions from Reston.
Does Reston Association have to approve a shower valve repair?
RA’s overview puts exterior changes under its design review, and a valve repair is inside the house. Your cluster or condo rules are a separate set, so check them. The repair itself runs $250 to $450.
My Reston shower mixes fine, except it jumps hot when someone flushes. Fixable?
Yes. That’s a valve that isn’t balancing pressure. If it has a cartridge, it can sometimes be swapped; on an older two-handle shower, a pressure-balancing valve is the real answer, at $950 to $1,400 with trim.
How much is shower repair in Reston?
Most shower valve repairs we do run $250 to $450, with the visit at $49, $250 after hours. A whole new valve with trim runs $950 to $1,400, and a tub spout runs $200 to $400.
Will you have to open the wall or break tile?
Not for a cartridge, a handle or a diverter. Those come out the front. A valve replacement goes in from an access panel when there is one, and when there isn’t, a larger trim plate can usually cover the opening so the tile stays.
Ready when you are
Get the shower back to normal.
Call, or send the form at the top. We pull the handle, show you the worn part, and you get the price in writing before we fix it.
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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 Reston 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.