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SwiftPro tests and repairs backflow preventers in Bealeton, and the yearly test is $250 a home (normally $300). 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 Bealeton are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Backflow testing in Bealeton, from Liberty Run to Bealeton Station: we test the device, fix it if it fails and send FCWSA the report. Book it at (703) 997-9757 or online. We’re rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews, and we set the visit around the date on your notice.
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What it costs
The yearly test is $250 a home, normally $300, and you can pay for it online. HOA and condo communities that book their units together pay $175 to $225 a unit. A new preventer, installed and tested, runs $800 to $1,200. Those are for a home’s device up to 1 inch; where an HOA unit or a new preventer lands in its range is set at the house and quoted before we start.
Yearly backflow test, one home
$250 (normally $300)
HOA or condo units booked together, per unit
$175 to $225
New backflow preventer, installed and tested
$800 to $1,200
Repair or rebuild after a failed test
Priced in writing before any work
Prices checked .
A device that fails is priced in writing before any work. Most can be rebuilt with new springs, seats or rubber parts; a body cracked by a freeze gets replaced. Either way it’s tested again afterward, which Virginia requires.
Booking for an HOA, townhouse or condo community? Here’s what each unit pays when the community books one visit. And what a backflow test costs covers what moves the price up or down.
What’s different in Bealeton
FCWSA’s cross-connection plan, approved by the Virginia Department of Health in April 2026, says it doesn’t keep an inventory of single-family sprinkler systems. It sends reminders as staffing allows. That means a Bealeton yard with sprinklers can go years without a notice while the yearly test is still required. If you have heads in the lawn and can’t remember the last test, you’re probably overdue.
There’s also a check you’ll never see. Since 2009, FCWSA’s standard meter setup has included a dual check valve at the meter. It helps keep house water from running back to the main, but it can’t be tested and it can wear out, which is why FCWSA treats the sprinkler device as the real protection. Bealeton grew fast through the 2000s, so plenty of houses were hooked up before that change and plenty after. Either way, the meter check doesn’t stand in for a tested device on the sprinklers.
The newer subdivisions on the Bealeton water system, places like Meadowbrook, Ashley Glen, Tory Station and Liberty Run, are where builder sprinklers turn up most. About one owner home in five in Bealeton is an apartment or condo. In those buildings the lawn out front and the device that waters it belong to the association or the landlord, so a notice there usually isn’t yours to answer.
This past summer gave people a reason to forget. In June 2026 FCWSA was in a Drought Warning that banned watering with a sprinkler or irrigation system, so a lot of Bealeton systems sat off. The device was still on the line the whole time. Check FCWSA’s current restrictions before you run it again, and if you’ve stopped using the system for good, FCWSA’s advice is to disconnect it permanently and let them know. Our guide to winterizing a sprinkler backflow preventer covers putting it to bed for the cold.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When it’s time
FCWSA posts the names of contractors who have sent in test results before, and says plainly it endorses none of them. It’s a starting point for calling around, not a sign anyone on it was checked for price or follow-through.
In a newer subdivision the builder often put in the lawn sprinklers, and the backflow device with them. Nobody tells the next owner it needs a test every year until the first notice shows up.
Anything piped to the water supply that could push water back into it gets a device: lawn sprinklers, a pool fill line, a hot tub. More yard usually means more of them.
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Before the first hard freeze
A device that sits full of water all winter is the most common reason it fails the spring test. Around here, get this done by the end of October.
On most houses it’s outside by the foundation: a brass valve on two pipes standing out of the ground, with a cap on top. That’s a PVB. An RPZ or double check may sit in a basement or a box in the ground instead.
Turn off the valve that feeds the sprinklers, usually in the basement or utility room just past the main shutoff. Leave the rest of the house on.
Most systems here get blown out with compressed air so nothing sits in the lines or the device. If yours hasn’t been, that’s the step that matters.
Set the device’s two shutoff handles and its little test cocks about halfway, near 45 degrees, so no pocket of water stays trapped inside to freeze.
An insulated cover helps a PVB through the winter. On an RPZ, never block the relief valve opening underneath: it has to be able to dump water.
Some owners bring the device inside for the winter. Check the rules first: Loudoun Water wants a device that came off tested again when it goes back on, and Fairfax County wants it back on before your testing month.
Not sure it was drained, or saw water coming from the cap when the sprinklers ran? Call us. We’ll look at it, and if it cracked, you get the reason and a price before anything gets replaced.
Who sends the notice
The Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority says state code (12VAC5-590-580) requires it to make sure every backflow device on its system is installed, maintained and tested every year. It surveys residential customers too, with a residential water system questionnaire (Form CCCP-0003). Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing a tester
Questions to ask anybody who offers to test it, us included.
Yearly results go on FCWSA’s Form CCCP-0002, emailed to the cross-connection administrator or mailed to the office on Kennedy Road in Warrenton. Ask the tester to send it that way and hand you a copy for your files.
Since January 1, 2023, Virginia only accepts tests from a DPOR-certified Backflow Prevention Device Worker, and some places keep a list of their own on top. Ask to see the certificate before the gauge goes on.
Some utilities take it from the tester and some want it from you. Ask which, and keep a copy either way, so you can show the date if a second notice turns up.
Ask for the reason and a written price before anything gets taken apart, and whether the retest is part of it. A failed device runs on a deadline, so a tester who can also fix it saves you a second trip.
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From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Tyson was wonderful; professional, very knowledgeable, thorough and fast. He was great at telling me about what was needed, and I very much appreciated that. For the next plumbing problem we have, I will have SwiftPro on speed dial.
Where we work
Next door to Bealeton: Catlett.
Questions
FCWSA doesn’t keep a list of which single-family homes have sprinklers, and it sends reminders as staffing allows. A missing notice doesn’t change the rule: a sprinkler device on FCWSA water gets tested every year.
Homes set up since 2009 usually have a dual check valve at the meter. It helps, but it can’t be tested and can fail over time, so FCWSA still counts on the device on your sprinkler line.
SwiftPro does, all over Bealeton. We test the backflow preventer on your sprinkler system, fire line or pool in about 30 minutes, repair it on the same visit if it fails, and get the report where your water utility wants it. Call (703) 997-9757 or book online.
The yearly test is $250 a home, normally $300, and you can pay for it online. HOA and condo units booked together on one visit run $175 to $225 a unit. A new preventer, installed and tested, is $800 to $1,200. Where an HOA unit or a new preventer lands in its range is set at the house and quoted before we start, and a device that fails is quoted in writing before any repair. More in what a backflow test costs.
About 30 minutes a device. The water is off for a few of those minutes while the gauge readings are taken.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. Have the notice handy: how many devices it lists and the date on it are what we need. Or pay $250 online and we’ll call to pick the day.
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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 Bealeton 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.