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For shower repair in Round Hill, 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 Round Hill are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Shower repair in Round Hill, where the houses are newer, the well water is hard, and the cartridge behind the handle is what wears out first. 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.
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What it costs
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 Round Hill
If a shower handle rocks in your hand, start with the screw behind the button or cap. When it bites and the handle still turns without moving the water, the grip inside the handle, or the stem it sits on, has worn smooth. Either one is a part you can hold.
Close to six in ten homes in ZIP 20141 went up in 2000 or later, and another 28 percent between 1980 and 1999. Most of those showers have a single-handle pressure-balancing valve, so a drip or a wobble is usually a worn cartridge and not a wall full of old stems.
The Town’s own handbook calls its well water hard and high in calcium, and its 2025 water report puts hardness at 115 to 317 mg/L on the main system, roughly 6.7 to 18.5 grains per gallon. Scale at the top of that range is a likely reason a cartridge goes stiff, then starts to leak by.
The Town’s water also reaches the Villages of Round Hill, Mountain Valley, Fallswood, Greenwood Commons, Lake Point and Stoneleigh, so the same hard water runs well outside the town limits. The Town’s report adds that the pressure reducing valve at the house is yours to keep up, and a worn one shows up as a weak shower even when the cartridge is fine.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIP 20141 as a whole: every Round Hill address, the Town and the neighborhoods around it. The Census place for the Town alone has too few homes for steady figures.
The signs
Unscrew the showerhead and look at the face. White crust over the holes is scale, and a vinegar soak may be all it needs. If every tap in the house runs weak, ask about the pressure reducing valve before anyone pulls a cartridge.
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.
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
Questions to ask anybody who pulls your shower handle off, us included.
In hard-water country a cartridge can fail from crust, not from age. Ask to see the old one, and ask whether the new one is a brand you can buy again in a few years.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Where we work
Next door to Round Hill: Purcellville, Bluemont, Philomont, Hamilton and Middleburg.
Questions
Rarely. In a house from the 2000s the valve body is usually fine, and the loose part is a screw or a worn handle insert. If it drips too, $250 to $450 usually covers a new cartridge. A whole new valve, at $950 to $1,400, is for a damaged body.
A softener helps cartridges, heads and the water heater last longer, but a repair doesn’t depend on one. We fix what’s worn either way. The Town’s handbook says calcium builds up in water heaters too, so ask us to look at that on the same trip.
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.
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
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 Round Hill 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.