Where the cable stops tells you the cause
A clog that clears and returns in the same month stopped the cable at the same distance both times. That distance, on a house you know, points to the spot. Ask for it.
Stafford, Virginia
Drain cleaning in Stafford.
For drain cleaning in Stafford, one clogged fixture drain is $200 to $800. 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 Stafford are rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and work under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover drain cleaning in Stafford, from Aquia Harbour’s 1980s houses to the townhouses and rentals around the courthouse. We price it before the machine runs. A main line backing up into the house is $550 to $1,650. Adding a camera look while we’re there is $89.
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What it costs
What drain cleaning costs in Stafford.
Where the clog sits decides the price. A sink, tub or shower drain is one fixture. When every drain in the house is slow or water comes up the lowest one, it’s the main line, and that’s a bigger machine and a longer run.
Drain cleaning, one fixture
$200 to $800
Main sewer line cleaning
$550 to $1,650
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
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If the main line clogs again inside a year, or the cable comes back with roots, a camera look for $89 on the same visit tells you whether it’s a clog or a broken pipe. We show you the picture either way.
Comfort+ membership is $199 a year for four visits: a dryer vent cleaning, a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection, a heating maintenance visit and a cooling maintenance visit.
What’s different in Stafford
Stafford is mostly houses from the 1980s and 90s, with a rental core around the courthouse.
Aquia Harbour is the plainest picture of the county: 2,332 owner homes, the median built in 1984, and 99.6 in 100 of them detached houses. Roughly two thirds went up between 1980 and 1999. Those are decades of one family in one house, a kitchen drain taking twenty-five years of dinners, and a hall bath that was never the one anybody used. A house like that clogs where its use has been heaviest, not where a pipe is oldest.
Around Stafford Courthouse the mix turns. The median owner home there is from 2005, and of the area’s roughly 1,570 occupied homes, 811 are rented. A rental clog is a different call. The person on the phone may not know where the cleanout sits, or whether the last tenant poured a pan of grease down the sink, and the owner may be across the county. We ask who’s paying before we start, and send the price to whoever approves it.
The 1980s and 90s houses run the same way almost everywhere in this county, and that’s useful. Builders then put in plastic drains, with one long main under the slab or floor and branches that turn at the same few places. When a cable stops at the same spot twice, that is usually a bad joint or a sag, not a bigger clog, and that’s when we’d rather look with a camera than clear it a third time.
The newest stretch, 9,388 of ZIP 22554’s 21,005 homes, was built since 2000 and has the most fixtures per house: three bathrooms, a laundry up on the second floor, a basement bath nobody planned for. More than a quarter of the homes here are not detached, and 3,410 in 22554 are attached. In a row, a gurgle in the lowest bath can come from next door. Mention it on the call and we’ll check before we cable.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
What’s under the floors across Stafford.
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and where houses that age usually clog.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | Where it usually clogs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquia Harbour | 1984 | single-family houses, nearly all | electricity, nearly all | Wipes and grease in PVC; a low spot outside. |
| Stafford Courthouse | 2005 | single-family houses, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | The kitchen line, from grease. |
By the numbers
Stafford houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Stafford
ZIPs 22554 and 22556 as a whole: every Stafford address. The Census places in the table hold about one in seven of these homes.
- Built before 1980about 2 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 4 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 7 in 10 Census
- Heated withelectricity, about 6 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 2 in 10 Census
- Houses from the 80s and 90s mostly drain through PVC, so a main line clog there is usually what went down it, or a low spot in the yard.
Which clog it is
One slow drain, or the whole house backing up in Stafford.
Only one sink or tub is slow
If the kitchen sink backs up but the bathroom drains fine, the clog is in that branch, usually grease or food in the kitchen, hair and soap in a tub. That’s a one-fixture clearing.
Water comes up the lowest drain
When the washer drains and water shows up in a basement shower or floor drain, or flushing a toilet bubbles the tub, the clog is past the branches in the main line. Stop running water until it’s cleared.
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Choosing who clears it
How to pick the best plumber for drain cleaning in Stafford.
Questions to ask anybody who offers to clear a drain, us included.
Do they tell you how far in the cable went?
A number of feet from the cleanout or fixture tells you where the problem sits and gives the next plumber a place to look. Without a number, you can’t tell a cleared line from a bored-through one.
Do they price it before they run the cable?
You should hear whether it’s a one-drain clearing or the main line, and the price for it, before anybody feeds a cable in. A price that shows up after the work is a bad sign.
Do they push chemicals or a new line on the first visit?
A clear drain doesn’t need a bottle of anything, and a single clog is not a reason to dig. If someone jumps to replacing the sewer line without a camera picture, get a second look.
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What our customers say.
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On July 3, I called to have a clogged floor drain cleared. Thankfully they arrived on July 4th which was greatly appreciated. No one else would come out do to the holiday. Thank you
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Questions
Drain questions from Stafford.
My Stafford kitchen drain clogs every few months. Is that normal?
Not after a good cable run. A repeat clog every few months points to one spot, usually a joint or a low section. Ask the plumber how far the cable went, then add a camera, $89 on the same visit, to see why.
Where does the County’s responsibility end?
At the meter on the water side. The sewer from your house to its connection is yours to maintain, so a clog that backs up into the house is yours to clear, and the County’s Utilities office is the one to call if the cable gets into the main.
How much does drain cleaning cost in Stafford?
One clogged sink, tub or shower drain is $200 to $800. A main line backing up into the house is $550 to $1,650. Where the clog is and how far down it sits moves the number inside that range.
Should I pour a drain cleaner in first?
Better not. The strong ones can sit in the trap, damage older pipe, and splash back on whoever opens the drain next. Try a plunger on a sink or tub, and if that doesn’t move it, call.
Ready when you are
Get the water moving again.
Call, or send the form at the top. You get the price in writing before the machine runs, and if it’s a pipe problem and not a clog, we’ll show you.
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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 Stafford 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.