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For pipe repair, a plumbing diagnosis visit in Fredericksburg is $49, or $250 after hours, and a person answers (703) 997-9757 day or night.
SwiftPro’s plumbers in Fredericksburg are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. Leaking or burst pipe in Fredericksburg, Falmouth or Ferry Farm? We find the leak, fix the pipe and quote the price before we 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 Fredericksburg
Start with the cold, because it is the biggest difference. The weather station in Fredericksburg records about 100 nights a year at or below freezing, against about 76 at Quantico, up the road. That’s more than a quarter of the year with an unheated crawl space or an outside tap at risk. In late January 2026 an Arctic outbreak pushed wind chills to near zero across the I-95 corridor, and a lot of pipes found out where they were weak.
Ferry Farm has its own story. Stafford County Utilities is replacing several miles of two-inch water line that a developer put in around the 1950s with six-inch line, house by house. Each home gets a new main, a new service connection and a new meter. While it’s underway, the County warns of short outages and discolored water. If a leak shows up in the weeks after your street is finished, check the first few feet of pipe inside the house, since old fittings can weep when the new pressure arrives.
The County’s side ends at the meter, so the pipe between the new meter and your wall is the owner’s. A long, buried 1950s service line to the house may be galvanized steel, and if it is, it’s worth a plumber’s look while the street is already open. Doing it between phases is easier than waiting for a leak.
The older houses here are common. ZIP 22405 has roughly 1,900 homes from the 1950s and 60s and about 2,500 from the 1970s. Falmouth’s median owner home is 1983, with half built before 1980. That’s copper with some galvanized, plus the grey polybutylene stretch of the 1980s. The 22406 side is a different place, with about six in ten built since 2000.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIPs 22405 and 22406 as a whole: Fredericksburg mail on the Stafford County side, not the City of Fredericksburg.
What you’d notice
Pipes in exterior walls, garages and vented crawl spaces are the ones that suffer in a cold snap. They can split quietly and only show it when the thaw comes. If a pipe ran cold and then went quiet, have it checked before the next cold week.
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
Stafford County Utilities’ side of the water service ends at the meter; the line from the meter to the house is the owner’s. On sewer the owner’s side runs to the cleanout, or with no cleanout, out to the VDOT right of way or utility easement. The County asks you to call Utilities before a plumber to sort out who owns the repair. 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.
A pipe that froze and didn’t burst is often weakened and fails on the second try. A plumber should check any section that had ice before, not only the part that is wet today.
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.
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Questions
Look at the first few feet inside the house for a damp spot or a drip at the shutoff, and read the meter with every tap closed. If it moves, call (703) 997-9757. The County replaces its line to the meter, but the pipe past the meter is yours.
Disconnect hoses, close and drain outside taps, and open the cabinet doors under sinks on outside walls. If the forecast drops into the teens, let a cold tap drip. Know where your main shutoff is before you need it.
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 Fredericksburg 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.