The bill climbs and the meter keeps spinning
On Town water, a bill that jumps with every tap off means a leak past the meter. In a copper line it is often one failed stretch, so find out how long it runs before you decide on a full replacement.
Vienna, Virginia
Sewer line repair and water lines in Vienna.
For sewer line repair in Vienna, 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.
$125/mo60mo @ 0% APR
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 Vienna under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276, and SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Sewer and water line replacement in Vienna, Town or county side, with the camera run and the right-of-way and permits worked out before a price. 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.
- Camera first, then the price
- Our own licensed plumbers
- Dug or lined, your call
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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
What sewer and water line replacement costs in Vienna.
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
Prices checked .
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 Vienna
In Vienna, the Town’s own agreement decides where your new water line starts.
Sign up for Town water and sewer and you sign an agreement, and it is short. You keep up the sewer connection from the Town’s main to your building, and the water connection from the main to the building, or from the end of the meter yoke to the house. Where your meter sits decides which. A meter at the curb means the whole run past it is yours. A meter closer to the house shortens the stretch we replace, and we will find the yoke before we measure anything.
The water line is the easier call here than in most older towns. The Town checked every service line in its system in 2024 and found no lead and no galvanized pipe, almost all of it copper. So a failing line in Vienna is usually a pinhole or a bad joint in copper, not a pipe rusting shut, and sometimes a repair of one stretch does it. We would tell you that before quoting a full replacement, since the dig is where the money goes.
The dig is the other half. Windover Heights and the streets off Maple Avenue and Church Street are nearly all detached houses, close to four in five town homes, on established lots where the line runs under a lawn, a walk and a driveway. Where the trench crosses the Town’s right-of-way the Town’s manual wants the patch to meet the state highway standard, and the agreement has street cuts repaired to Town specifications. Plan on the street patch being its own line item.
Permits are split in a way that surprises people. The Town has no plumbing inspector of its own, so Fairfax County issues the plumbing permit for work inside the town, and the Town still wants its say on the right-of-way. Out in Wolf Trap, on the county side, nearly every house is detached and from around 1980, and the county rule applies: you own the lateral to the county main, under the street too, with a VDOT permit under a state road.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
What a line replacement looks like across Vienna.
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what the buried pipe usually is in houses like them.
By the numbers
Vienna houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
The Town of Vienna
Nearly the whole town sits in 22180, which it shares with county streets toward Dunn Loring and Merrifield.
- Median home built1972 Census
- Built before 1980about 7 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 3 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 8 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 8 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 2 in 10 Census
- Houses from before 1980 usually went in with clay or cast iron sewer pipe and galvanized or copper water lines. Clay joints let roots in; galvanized rusts from the inside until the pressure drops.
- Most homes here are detached houses, each with its own line to the street, so a longer front yard means a longer line and a bigger dig.
The county side, around Wolf Trap
Vienna mail outside the town line: Wolf Trap and the Tysons edge in 22182, the Oakton side of 22181, Dunn Loring. The figures are Wolf Trap’s, the biggest piece.
- Median home built1980 Census
- Built before 1980about 5 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 1 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, nearly all Census
- Heated withgas, about 7 in 10 Census
- Rentedhardly any Census
- Houses from the 80s and 90s mostly went in with PVC sewer pipe, which doesn’t rust and resists roots, so trouble there is usually a sag or a joint that shifted.
When it’s time
When a Vienna sewer or water line needs replacing.
The pipe is as old as the house
Lines laid before 1980 were often clay, cast iron or galvanized steel. Each of those wears out on its own clock, and by now many of them have been in the ground fifty years or more.
The trees have grown up
A maple planted when the house was new is now big enough to send roots after the water in a sewer line. Roots get in at the joints and keep coming back after every cleaning.
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Choosing who replaces it
How to pick who replaces a sewer or water line in Vienna.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you a line replacement, us included.
Did they ask where your water meter is?
In Vienna that is the first question, because the meter yoke can mark where your part of the line starts. A quote that doesn’t mention it was written without looking at the yard.
Did they show you the camera footage before the price?
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.
Did they price sewer line repair by digging and by lining, side by side?
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.
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We had Tyson out for our main line leaking underground, he explained the scope of work for replacement and set great expectations. They had the job done in a very timely manner and I couldn’t ask for more professionalism than he provided!
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Where we work
Sewer and water line replacement in every Northern Virginia town we serve
Next door to Vienna: McLean, Fairfax, Reston, Falls Church and Annandale.
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Questions
Sewer and water line questions from Vienna.
Does the Town of Vienna replace the water line to my house?
Not past the main. Under the Town’s agreement the owner keeps up the water connection from the main to the building, or from the meter yoke in. The Town owns the main and, in most cases, the meter.
Who issues the permit for a line replacement in Vienna?
Fairfax County issues the plumbing permit inside the town, since the Town has no building official of its own. A cut in the Town’s street also has to meet the Town’s specifications, and we handle both.
How much is sewer line replacement in Vienna?
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.
Do I need a camera inspection before replacing 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
Find out what’s wrong with the line first.
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.
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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 Vienna 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.