The water goes cold in the middle of a shower
If it runs steady, then fades cold after a few minutes, that’s often the water heater, not the valve. If it swings hot to cold in seconds, the valve isn’t balancing. We run both before pulling anything.
Bealeton, Virginia
Shower repair in Bealeton.
For shower repair in Bealeton, 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 Bealeton are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Shower repair in Bealeton, in the subdivisions around Meadowbrook and Station Drive and the apartments between them: a drip, a loose handle, or no heat. 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 Bealeton.
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 Bealeton
Bealeton is young, and almost every shower here is a single-handle valve built in the last forty years.
Almost half of Bealeton’s homes were built from 1980 through 1999, and nearly as many since 2000. That’s a lot of single-handle, pressure-balancing valves, and on those, a loose handle usually points to the cartridge, or to a handle whose set screw was never snugged. We start by pulling the cap, then the handle, and look at the stem.
When one of these showers drips, the cartridge is the repair at $250 to $450, and it comes out through the front. Two decades of use on a builder-grade valve is about where we see them wear. A replacement cartridge from the same maker keeps the trim you have.
FCWSA’s Bealeton wells are 320 to 520 feet down, and four of them feed a microfiltration plant in Meadowbrook that adds a phosphate to control color and sediment and cut corrosion. The report prints no hardness figure. After one of FCWSA’s flushing runs, run the cold tap until it clears before you judge a shower. Discolored water from the main usually isn’t a valve problem.
About one home in five here is an apartment or condo, and that changes how a repair goes. A cartridge swap needs the unit’s water off, and sometimes the building’s. We schedule with the owner, the manager, or the association, and we tell you which shutoff we’re using before we touch it.
By the numbers
Bealeton houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Bealeton
- Median home built1996 Census
- Built before 1980about 1 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 5 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 7 in 10 Census
- Heated withelectricity, about 7 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 2 in 10 Census
- Many houses here were built since 2000 with single-handle pressure-balancing valves, where a loose handle or a drip is almost always a cartridge.
- Most homes here are detached houses, where the shower valve can often be reached from a closet or a panel behind the wall.
The signs
When a shower in Bealeton 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 Bealeton.
Questions to ask anybody who pulls your shower handle off, us included.
Will they swap just the cartridge, or sell me a new valve?
On valves this young, a cartridge fixes most of them. Ask what they found in the old one. A new valve at $950 to $1,400 only makes sense if the body itself is damaged.
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.
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What our customers say.
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Questions
Shower repair questions from Bealeton.
I rent a Bealeton apartment and the shower handle is loose. What do I do?
Tell your landlord or property manager first. Most of the time they want it fixed, and we can work with them on scheduling the water shutoff for the building.
My Bealeton shower sputters just after a flush day. Is it the valve?
Probably not. After FCWSA flushes, air and sediment can sit in the line. Run the cold tap until it clears and try again. If it still sputters, we’ll look.
How much is shower repair in Bealeton?
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.
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 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.