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For pipe repair, a plumbing diagnosis visit in Orlean is $49, or $250 after hours, and a person answers (703) 997-9757 day or night.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Orlean are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Leaking pipe or a burst line in Orlean? We find where the water is going, repair the pipe and give you the cost in writing before we cut a thing. 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
24/7 emergency serviceWe answer day or night, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
Our own plumbers, our own trucksNobody here is a subcontractor with a magnet on the door
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 Orlean
The usual leak story in the villages around here is age. In Orlean it’s chemistry. Virginia Cooperative Extension tested drinking water from Fauquier households over five years, and low pH, meaning acidic water, was the most common problem, showing up in almost half of the samples. Acidic water eats at copper from the inside, slowly, and at brass fittings too. Add a house built when copper was the standard and you get the classic Orlean call: a green crust, then a fine spray, then a stain on the ceiling below.
The numbers fit. The block group around the village has 576 homes, every one a detached house, and the middle one went up in 1982. Of those, 387 were built between 1970 and 1999, about two in three. That’s copper old enough to thin, plus a stretch from the late 1970s to the mid 90s when gray polybutylene was also in use, so a house here can have either. We look at the pipe, not the year, and tell you which you have.
Nobody reads a meter in Orlean. FCWSA runs sixteen water systems in the county and none are here, so every house has its own well and its own pressure tank, and every foot of pipe from the tank to the faucet is the owner’s. That also means the person to call is the same person who will fix it, and you only need one conversation. If a leak shows up in the yard, we trace it before anyone digs.
The village itself runs from the 1790s to the 1950s, log and stone and frame on stone foundations, with the Methodist church raised in the 1990s to put a full basement under it, kitchen and bathroom included. A house on a stone foundation like that often has a supply pipe running through a wall of rubble, which is where a stubborn leak hides. Out on Cliff Mills Road and Cabin Branch Road, the question after a flood is different: the Carter Run gauge went over flood stage in August 2020 and Cliff Mills Road flooded, so if a crawl space took on water, we check the pipes there for damage before you trust them.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Orlean’s own ZIP, 20128, is post office boxes only, so the Census Bureau maps no area for it. These are ZIP 20115 as a whole, the Marshall ZIP area Orlean sits in, Marshall included.
What you’d notice
That powdery green or blue-green crust is copper corroding at a leak, often from a pinhole too small to drip. Wipe it dry and check again an hour later. If it’s wet, a section has to come out, and with acidic water the pipe on either side of it is usually thinning too. We’ll show you how much.
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.
Polybutylene, often stamped PB, went into houses from about 1978 to 1995. It tends to fail at the fittings without much warning, so a drip at one joint is a reason to look at the rest.
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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
On FCWSA sewer, the service line from the main to the property line and the lateral from there to the house are the customer’s to clear. FCWSA clears its mains and fixes a service line under a public street, and it doesn’t reimburse a plumber. Source.
On FCWSA water (Bealeton, Catlett, Marshall, New Baltimore, Vint Hill and its other systems), FCWSA says it can’t guarantee uniform pressure, and that over 80 psi the customer should install a pressure regulating valve at their own expense. Homes on private wells aren’t covered by this. 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.
In Orlean they should. If the water is acidic, a repair that only replaces the leaking inch may last a year, and a plumber who has looked at your water test, or suggests one, is thinking past the visit. Ask what they’d do about the cause.
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.
Good first visit to do a diagnostic, helpful tips were given by the tech to fix the smell coming from drain pipes in my condo
Where we work
Next door to Orlean: Amissville, Marshall, Warrenton, Delaplane and Rectortown.
Questions
It can be. Fauquier tests found low pH in close to half of the water samples, and acidic water does wear copper. We can’t tell from the pipe alone, so get the water tested for pH. The result tells us whether to repair a section or talk about a bigger fix.
It can be. A pipe passing through an old stone wall gets cold first, and it’s hard to reach. If you see frost on it in winter or a damp patch where it passes, call us before the cold weather. Wrapping it is cheap; repairing it after a split isn’t.
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 Orlean 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.