A shower that sprays and drips
If the water hits hard and the shower still drips when it’s off, the pressure may be wearing the seals faster than normal. Replacing the cartridge without checking the pressure may mean replacing it again.
Purcellville, Virginia
Shower repair in Purcellville.
For shower repair in Purcellville, 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 Purcellville are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Shower repair in Purcellville: we pull the handle, show you the worn part, then price it, whether the house is on Main Street or in a new subdivision. 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 Purcellville.
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 Purcellville
Purcellville’s Town system runs at high pressure, and high pressure is hard on a shower valve’s seals.
A handle that rocks usually has a set screw backing out, small and easy to miss under the cap. Tighten it and test. If the handle still spins, the grip inside it, or on the stem it sits on, has worn smooth, and we replace the part that is rounder.
The Town’s own FAQ says people in new homes may use more water than they did before, possibly because of the high pressure in the Town system, and suggests a pressure reducer if the house doesn’t have one. That pressure is also pushing on every seal in your shower. A cartridge that sprays hard and drips after you shut it off may be worn because it was always working against more pressure than it was built for.
The Town’s water comes about half from a mountain-fed reservoir and half from wells, and its report doesn’t print a hardness figure, so we won’t give you one. About half the homes here were built since 2000 and the median owner home is from 2001. Those showers are single-handle pressure-balancing valves, and a cartridge swap is a $250 to $450-range job.
Around the downtown grid, roughly one home in eight predates 1960, and some of those baths still have two handles. Where that is the case, a stem swap is possible, and we tell you if a new valve is the better choice. About a fifth of homes here are townhouses, where a drip behind the trim lands in the room below, so don’t let one run.
By the numbers
Purcellville 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 Purcellville
Inside the town limits: the downtown grid around Main and 21st Streets, the historic corridors along Main, 21st, 23rd and 32nd Streets and Berlin Turnpike, and the newer neighborhoods such as Village Case.
- Median home built2001 Census
- Built before 1980about 2 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 5 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 7 in 10 Census
- Heated withelectricity, about 5 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 1 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 Purcellville 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 Purcellville.
Questions to ask anybody who pulls your shower handle off, us included.
Will they check the house pressure along with the shower?
A gauge on a hose bib takes a minute. If the number is high, a plumber should tell you, since a worn cartridge is likely to come back if the pressure stays that way.
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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Needed 2 faucets installed and both gentlemen did a nice job. Checked everything out prior to removing old faucets and QC’d everything upon completion of the job. Cleaned up and on their way. Thanks!
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Questions
Shower repair questions from Purcellville.
Why does my Purcellville shower spray hard and drip afterward?
The pressure in the Town system can be high, and that wears on cartridge seals. We check the pressure at the house, then replace the cartridge, a repair in the $250 to $450 range.
Is the shower in my old Purcellville house worth keeping, or should I replace the valve?
If it only drips, stems and washers usually fix it. If it jumps hot when someone flushes, a pressure-balancing valve is the fix, and that runs $950 to $1,400 with trim.
How much is shower repair in Purcellville?
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.
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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 Purcellville 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.