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For pipe repair, a plumbing diagnosis visit in Calverton is $49, or $250 after hours, and a person answers (703) 997-9757 day or night.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Calverton are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Leaking or burst pipe in Calverton? We find the leak, fix the pipe and give you the price in writing before we cut anything. 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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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 Calverton
Calverton is small and old. The County counts 69 historic buildings in the Calverton Historic District, and more than half were built between 1920 and 1960, mostly along Bristersburg Road between Route 28 and Old Calverton Road. A house of that age that stayed in one family has probably had the kitchen redone and the pipes patched, and what’s behind the wall may be galvanized steel married to newer copper.
Galvanized steel corrodes from the inside out, so a drip at one threaded joint is a warning about its neighbors. The weak point is usually where an old run was cut and joined to copper through a brass adapter. Brown water after the tap’s been sitting is the early sign. We cut out the failed section, show you the inside of the pipe and let you decide between one repair and a bigger conversation.
The numbers table on this page is for the whole of ZIP 20119, because Calverton’s own ZIP, 20138, is post office boxes. It describes the farms and newer lots around the village better than Bristersburg Road. Across it the median owner home is from 1990, and about a third went up in the polybutylene years, 1980 to 1999. FCWSA has no water system in Calverton, so no house has a meter, and the line from the pressure tank into the house is the one a hard freeze finds.
Near Route 28 and Bristersburg Road the lots run about three homes to an acre, tight for a well community, and a wide floodplain crosses the middle of the village. Bastable Mill Road has closed to high water more than once. After a flood, look at the tank, the shutoff and any fitting that sat in water, and tell us if the pump has run nonstop since.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Calverton’s own ZIP, 20138, is post office boxes only, so the Census Bureau maps no area for it. These are ZIP 20119 as a whole, the Catlett ZIP area that holds nearly nine in ten of the Calverton Census place’s homes.
What you’d notice
Run the kitchen tap in the morning after a quiet night. If the first glass is rusty and clears in a minute, that’s rust coming off the inside of old steel pipe. That’s the pipe getting ready to leak, not a leak yet, and a good time to have it looked at.
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.
Choosing who fixes it
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
With 1920s plumbing, seeing a cut section of the pipe tells you more than any estimate. Ask to see it. If the inside is crusted shut, you’re looking at more than a single joint.
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.
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Questions
If it dates from 1920 to 1960 and the supply was never replaced, often yes, at least in part. A plumber can usually tell in minutes by scratching the pipe: gray and magnetic is galvanized, copper-colored is copper.
Shut every tap and listen. If the pump keeps starting, or the tank gauge slides down, water is leaving. Switch the pump off at the breaker before you start opening things up, and call (703) 997-9757 if you can’t find where it’s going.
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
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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 Calverton 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.