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For pipe repair, a plumbing diagnosis visit in Springfield is $49, or $250 after hours, and a person answers (703) 997-9757 day or night.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Springfield are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Leaking or burst pipe in Springfield? We find the leak, fix the pipe and give you the price in writing, whether the house is from 1955 or 1995. Finding a hidden leak is $200 to $500, and most water pipe repairs run $450 to $650, from our published price list.
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Licensed and insuredVirginia Class A contractor #2705192276
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The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
What it costs
The same numbers as our pipe repair page, each a range because the house decides where it lands. You hear the number before the work starts.
Plumbing diagnosis visit
$49
Plumbing diagnosis visit, after hours
$250
Leak located (hidden or behind a wall)
$200 to $500
Water pipe repair, one section replaced
$450 to $650
Drywall opened for the repair
Priced in writing before we cut
Prices checked .
Most repairs are one section of pipe: the split or pinhole cut out and a new piece put in. Where the pipe sits decides most of the price. Exposed in a basement ceiling is the low end; inside a finished wall is higher, and we tell you before the drywall comes open.
With Comfort+ membership, any repair is 15% off, and every year includes a plumbing safety inspection that looks at the supply pipe you can see.
What’s different in Springfield
Once the wall is open, every leak comes down to one choice: mend the spot, or replace the run. In Springfield the right answer changes with the street. Two thirds of North Springfield’s homes date to before 1960, and nearly all are detached, so a weeping galvanized joint usually has company close by. A new run in copper or PEX costs more today and spares you the next two calls.
Kings Park sits at the other end of the age scale: almost every home predates 1980, with a median of 1966. The pipe there is copper, and the sign is a green crust or a damp ring on a pipe near the furnace or the water heater. Old copper thins from the inside until it sprays through the wall of the pipe against the nearest joist. If the same run weeps twice, we price a new run beside the mend.
West Springfield, mostly 1960s and 70s, is nearly four in ten townhouses, and the Springfield CDP itself is more than a quarter condos. A stain on a shared wall there can be the neighbor’s, so run the meter test first. Ravensworth is all detached houses, nearly all older than 1980. Newington Forest, mostly 1980s and 90s and half townhouses, falls in the years of gray polybutylene, so look for gray plastic with crimp rings near the water heater.
Pressure ties the neighborhoods together. Fairfax Water promises 20 psi at the main and no steady figure above it, and the reducing valve that evens it out is the customer’s to keep up. Old pipe with high pressure behind it leaks sooner, so if faucets bang when you shut them, a gauge on the hose bib tells you in a minute.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for each place, and the supply pipe that usually goes with houses that age. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | The supply pipe you usually find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield | 1968 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Copper supply, old enough for pinholes. |
| West Springfield | 1972 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Copper supply, old enough for pinholes. |
| Newington | 1981 | townhouses, about 6 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | The polybutylene years: check the supply pipe at the fittings. |
| Newington Forest | 1984 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | The polybutylene years: check the supply pipe at the fittings. |
| North Springfield | 1957 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Galvanized supply on the oldest streets; leaks at the fittings. |
| Kings Park | 1966 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Copper supply, old enough for pinholes. |
| Ravensworth | 1964 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, nearly all | Galvanized supply on the oldest streets; leaks at the fittings. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
What you’d notice
Rust at a threaded elbow on galvanized pipe is the giveaway. Dry the joint, tape a paper towel under it, and look again in an hour. A joint that wept once will weep again, and we can show you how far the rust has gone.
Galvanized steel pipe rusts from the inside, and the threads at each fitting go first. Brown water after the tap sits, or a damp drip at a joint in the basement, usually means more of that pipe is close behind.
Old copper fails in pinholes: a fine mist or a green crust on a pipe in the basement ceiling. One pinhole is a repair. Several in a year on the same run is the pipe telling you it’s thinning everywhere.
A brown ring under a bathroom, or a soft spot in the drywall, is water that’s been finding its way down for a while. A supply pipe leaks all the time; a drain only leaks when somebody runs water upstairs, and that difference tells us where to look first.
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Before the first hard freeze
A pipe usually bursts in the hours after a cold snap, when the ice inside it thaws and the split starts to run. Five things to do before it gets that cold, then call us if something already looks wrong.
Disconnect every garden hose. A hose left on traps water in the spigot, and that’s the most common split we see. If the spigot has a shutoff inside the house, close it and open the outside tap to drain it.
A kitchen or bathroom sink on an outside wall gets the coldest air in the house. On the coldest nights, open the cabinet doors so room heat reaches the pipes, and let that tap drip.
Close crawl space vents and the garage door for the winter. Pipes that run through a crawl space, a garage ceiling or an unheated room over the garage are the ones that freeze first.
Find it now, before you need it: usually where the water line comes through the basement or crawl space wall, near the meter or the water heater. Make sure it turns. When a pipe bursts, that valve is the difference between a mop and a contractor.
Keep the thermostat at 55 or higher while you’re gone, and ask someone to look in if a cold snap comes. A frozen pipe that thaws with nobody home runs for days.
Find a pipe that’s frozen, or water where it shouldn’t be? Shut the main off and call us at (703) 997-9757. A diagnosis visit is $49, or $250 after hours, and you get the repair price before we cut into anything.
Your pipes, your paperwork
In Fairfax County the homeowner owns the whole sewer lateral, from the house to the county main, including the stretch under the street. Replacing it takes a county plumbing permit, plus a VDOT permit under a state road. Source.
Fairfax Water promises 20 psi at the main and no uniform pressure, and the pressure reducing valve on your side of the meter is yours to buy and keep up. Over 80 psi, the Virginia Residential Code calls for one, and an expansion tank with it. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who fixes it
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
Ask for both numbers. Someone who only quotes the quick mend leaves you waiting for the next leak. Someone who quotes both lets you decide with the age of the house in view.
Anyone can check on the state’s license lookup. Ours is Virginia Class A contractor license, on every van.
A good leak call starts at the meter and the shutoffs, then narrows it down with pressure and moisture readings. The drywall comes open in one spot, not five.
Every repair on our list has a range, and you hear where yours lands before anything is cut. If someone won’t say until the job is done, keep looking.
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.
Had a ceiling leak. I had very good communication with the company both by phone and text. My technician, Zabi, was terrific. He took the time to check all the likely plumbing culprits and walked me through the possible causes and solutions.
Where we work
Next door to Springfield: Burke, Annandale, Fairfax Station, Lorton and Alexandria.
Questions
Not necessarily. Rust at one fixture often points to one worn run. If the water runs brown everywhere after it sits, the galvanized is flaking throughout, and that’s the bigger job. We’ll put the cost on paper before anything is opened.
If it’s gray with PB stamped on the side and crimp rings at the joints, yes. It tends to fail at the fittings, not in the middle of a run. We’d look at the other joints while we’re there and put the price in writing.
Storm water in the basement is not a pipe leak, but it can hide one. The Weather Service logged Old Keene Mill Road closed at Rolling Road, with water two feet deep, in August 2023, and flood water sits against low pipes and the water heater. Once it’s pumped out, shut the main and check the meter. If the dial still moves, call us.
Shut off the main water valve, then turn off the water heater (gas to pilot, or the breaker for electric). Open a faucet at the lowest point of the house to drain what’s left in the pipes. Then call (703) 997-9757: a person answers day or night, and our emergency plumbing team is on 24/7.
A plumbing diagnosis visit is $49, or $250 after hours. Finding a leak you can’t see is $200 to $500, and most water pipe repairs run $450 to $650. You get the number before we start.
Ready when you are
Shut off the main, then call, or send the form at the top. You get the price before the work, and if it can wait until morning, we’ll tell you that too.
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.