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For drain cleaning in Springfield, 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 Springfield are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Springfield, from North Springfield’s 1950s houses to Kings Park, Ravensworth and the Newington Forest townhomes. Priced before we start. 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 Springfield
Springfield was built over about forty years, so ask where in town you live. North Springfield is the old end: the median home there dates from 1957. A house that old is often on a slab or over a basement with its drains tied together under the floor, and that single run to the street carries the whole house. A slow tub there is rarely the tub alone. We cable from the cleanout outside when there is one, so nobody has to pull a fixture.
Kings Park and most of West Springfield went up in the 1960s and 70s. The median owner home across the whole town is 1968, and 56 in 100 homes are detached. In those houses the kitchen drain is the one that gives out first, because it carries the heaviest load of grease and starch, and scale has been narrowing the pipe for decades. If a cable clears it and it comes back by spring, we’d rather put a camera in than keep clearing it.
Ravensworth is all single-family houses, mostly from the mid 1960s, with big trees. Fairfax County’s wastewater office says roots get into open joints and cracks and, in time, can break the line, and in an old yard that is the cause of a repeat clog more than any habit in the kitchen. After a root clearing, the county asks you to let it know so its own crew can clean the main.
Newington Forest and Newington are the 1980s end, with more than half townhouses. Those lines are plastic, so a clog there is almost always what went down, and wipes sold as flushable are the usual one. In a row of townhouses the clog can be yours, or it can be in the pipe the row shares. Run water in the lowest bathroom and tell us if a neighbor’s drain acts up too.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield | 1968 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| West Springfield | 1972 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| Newington | 1981 | townhouses, about 6 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | Wipes and grease in PVC; a low spot outside. |
| Newington Forest | 1984 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | Wipes and grease in PVC; a low spot outside. |
| North Springfield | 1957 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Roots in clay joints out in the yard. |
| Kings Park | 1966 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Scale in cast iron under the floor. |
| Ravensworth | 1964 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, nearly all | 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.
Which clog it is
Springfield kitchens get the worst of it: cooking grease, rice, pasta water. If the sink drains slowly and everything else in the house runs fine, the clog is in the branch behind that sink, and that is the cheapest kind to clear.
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.
Townhouse rows often share a line before it reaches the street. If a neighbor is fighting the same clog, tell us, because the fix may be on common pipe the association handles.
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Choosing who clears it
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
Pulling a toilet to get a cable in is a last resort. A cleanout outside the house is a cleaner way in. A plumber who goes looking for one first is saving you a reseal and a wax ring.
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
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Where we work
Next door to Springfield: Burke, Annandale, Fairfax Station, Lorton and Alexandria.
Questions
It can be. A kitchen line in a house from the 1960s or 70s often has a root-grown joint or scale buildup at one point, and a spring of wet weather and new growth is when it tightens. Clearing it works. If it returns, a camera, $89 on the same visit, shows whether it’s one joint or the whole run.
Yours if it’s behind your own fixtures. If your neighbors’ drains slow down at the same time, the clog may be in the pipe the row shares, which the association handles. Tell us when you call and we’ll say where the cable stopped.
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 Springfield 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.