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For pipe repair, a plumbing diagnosis visit in Bristow is $49, or $250 after hours, and a person answers (703) 997-9757 day or night.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Bristow are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Leaking or burst pipe in Bristow or Linton Hall? We find the leak, fix the pipe and give you the price before anything gets cut. 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 Bristow
Bristow is new construction almost end to end. In the Linton Hall part of 20136, about three homes in four went up in 2000 or later, and hardly any before 1980. The supply pipe in your wall is usually PEX or copper, and neither tends to wear through in the middle of a run. The leaks we see here start at the edges: a fitting behind a vanity, the connection at the water heater, the hose bib on the back of the house.
About two homes in ten date from the 1980s and 90s, and in those a run of grey polybutylene could still be inside the wall. Out toward Brentsville, which the Linton Hall numbers don’t cover, houses can be a good deal older, and an old farmhouse may carry a little of everything, so ask us what’s in yours.
Victory Lakes shows how the neighborhoods mix. It has about 1,300 homes, a bit more than half of them single-family and the rest townhouses. A stain on a townhouse ceiling may have started in the unit beside or above yours. Close your own main and check the spot after a while. A stain that stops spreading was your water. One that goes on growing is a reason to knock on a neighbor’s door.
On the utility side, Prince William Water treats everything past the meter as the customer’s, including lines on private property. A wet patch of lawn between the meter box and the foundation is therefore yours to dig. The utility will also send someone out to check your meter for leaks if you ask, which tells you which side to look at.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
What you’d notice
On a house this new, a damp spot on the basement ceiling under a back-wall hose bib usually means the pipe behind it split the last time a hose stayed connected through a freeze. It looks small. It can run for weeks inside the wall. A brown ring on a garage ceiling below the back patio is the version we see most in Linton Hall.
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.
Turn everything off and watch the water meter for ten minutes. If the dial or the little leak indicator still moves, water is going somewhere, inside a wall, under a slab or out in the yard.
A bill that’s a third higher with nobody new in the house is often a running toilet, and sometimes a pipe. The meter test above sorts out which in a few minutes.
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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
Prince William Water requires its own Lateral Repair or Replacement Permit, and its inspection, before anyone repairs or replaces a sewer lateral outside the house. Source.
Prince William Water says the pressure reducing valve is the homeowner’s to install and keep up, that the plumbing code recommends one where pressure runs 80 psi or more, and that pressure rises with the height difference between your house and the water tank serving it. 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.
Newer PEX and copper rarely fail along their length. A plumber who goes straight to cutting out a long run in a 2000s house hasn’t looked at the crimp rings, the hose bib and the connections at the water heater, where the water is most likely getting out. Ask them to name the three spots they will inspect before they cut: the water heater connections, the nearest hose bib and the shutoff under the sink above the wet area.
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 Bristow: Nokesville, Manassas, Gainesville, Catharpin and Centreville.
Questions
Often, because it stretches where copper splits. The fittings and the hose bibs don’t stretch, and they’re on outside walls, so they’re still the first things to go. Disconnect hoses before the first hard freeze and shut the inside valve to each outdoor tap if you have one.
Close the main shutoff inside the house and watch the meter again. If it still moves, the leak is between the meter and that valve, out in the yard. If it stops, the water is leaving through the house. Either way, call us at (703) 997-9757 and tell us what the meter did.
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 Bristow 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.