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Sump pump replacement in Burke: $697 installed in your existing pit. A new pit, a battery backup, outside drain work or new wiring is extra.
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What it costs
The same price as our sump pump replacement page: one flat number for a new pump in a pit that’s still sound, with what costs extra named right beside it.
Sump pump replacement, installed in your existing pit
$697
Sump pump and battery backup, installed together
$3,200
or $53/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A new or deeper pit, discharge line work outside, or a dedicated circuit
Priced in writing before we start
Monthly figures: 60mo @ 0% APR on each starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. Longer plans lower the payment and cost more in total. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
$697 covers a new cast iron pump, a quiet check valve, new PVC up to your existing discharge line, a battery water alarm by the pit, the old pump hauled away and a bucket test before we leave.
A battery backup keeps pumping through a power outage, and the outage usually comes with the storm. With a new pump, the pair is $3,200 installed. The sump pump estimator helps you decide whether you need one.
What’s different in Burke
The Census doesn’t count basements, so the houses have to tell us. More than 8 in 10 Burke homes went up in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the Burke Census place about two thirds are single-family houses, the kind builders here usually set over a basement in those years. Where one off Burke Lake Road or around Lake Braddock has a pit, it often went in with the house, so the pit can be near fifty years old even when the pump isn’t.
Burke Centre is nearly half townhouses, and more than half its homes date from the 1980s. Where a townhouse there has a pit, it’s often in the unfinished corner of the lowest level, and with the side walls shared on all but the end units, the discharge usually leaves through the back wall into a small rear yard.
That rear yard is where the Burke Centre Conservancy comes in. Its Architectural Standards require an approved application before anyone alters how stormwater drains on a lot. The drainage has to stay inside your lot lines, spread the water out, say with a pop-up emitter on a buried pipe, and never send it onto a neighbor’s lot, the cluster’s common area or Conservancy open space. White PVC from a sump pump is spared the earth-tone rule for whatever shows.
So in the Commons, the Landings, the Oaks, the Ponds and the Woods, a new pump in the same pit, pushing out the same pipe, is the $697 job and should change nothing the Conservancy reviews. Moving or burying the discharge is the part to clear with them first, which is why it gets its own line on our quote.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what to check on a sump pump in houses that age.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burke | 1979 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Older basements: check where the sump line empties. |
| Burke Centre | 1982 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | 1980s and 90s basements: an original pump is long overdue. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When it’s time
If the ground stays wet where the pipe comes out, or the water heads for the house next door, the discharge needs work as much as the pump. Inside Burke Centre, standing water or erosion on a neighbor’s lot is what the Conservancy’s drainage rules forbid.
The county’s Flood Mitigation Assistance Program pays back half of a battery backup, up to its cap, after the work is done and paid for. Not the pump itself, and not homes in the Town of Vienna, the Town of Herndon or the City of Fairfax.
Zoeller, who make a lot of the pumps around here, puts a sump pump’s life at seven to ten years. Past seven, replace it on your schedule instead of the storm’s.
After a heavy rain
Six checks you can make yourself once the rain lets up, none of them with your hands in the pit. Then call us and we’ll check it all.
Watch the pit during the rain or right after. The pump should start as the water rises, empty the pit and shut off. A full pit, or a pump that hums and moves nothing, isn’t keeping up.
Walk the basement: the corners, the walls, the floor by the pit, under the water heater and the furnace. Photograph any wet spot before you mop, so we can see where it came in.
Outside, find where the pump’s pipe ends. It should be open, not crushed, buried or full of leaves, and aimed away from the house so the water doesn’t run back to the foundation.
Listen when the pump shuts off. Water rushing back into the pit means the check valve isn’t closing, and the pump has to move that water again.
The pump stops when the power does, often at the height of the storm. If the basement took water during an outage, that’s the job a battery backup does.
If water is standing near the pit, an outlet or anything plugged in, don’t wade in to check. Call us, and only switch the power off at the panel from somewhere dry.
Not sure what you saw? Call us after a storm and we’ll check it all: the pump, the float, the check valve, the discharge line and where the water came in. If the pump can’t keep up, a new one is $697 installed in your existing pit; a new or deeper pit, a battery backup, discharge line work outside and a dedicated circuit are extra, priced in writing before we start.
Choosing who replaces it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
In Burke Centre the pump inside is your business and the water’s path outside is the Conservancy’s. A plumber who works here should say which side of that line the quote falls on before you sign, not after the trench is dug.
Ask what the number covers: the pump, the check valve, the pipe, hauling the old one off, a test before they leave. Then ask what costs extra, and get it in writing.
Cast iron, ideally. Plastic pumps cost less and are usually the ones that quit early. Ask before the old one comes out.
A discharge line that’s cracked, buried or frozen shut every January leaves the new pump pushing against a closed pipe. Whoever replaces it should check the outside end too.
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Where we work
Next door to Burke: Fairfax Station, Springfield, Annandale, Fairfax and Clifton.
Questions
Yes. The county’s Flood Mitigation Assistance Program covers Burke, since none of 22015 lies in the Town of Vienna, the Town of Herndon or the City of Fairfax. Finish the work, then apply with the itemized invoice, proof of payment and a photo of the finished install. If the job changed the drainage outside a Burke Centre home, include proof of the Conservancy’s approval.
It can be. If that pipe ends in the sanitary sewer, Fairfax County calls it an unpermitted connection and illegal: in a storm the extra water can overload the sewer and push sewage into streams, streets and basements. The county’s wastewater front desk takes questions about it at 703-324-5015. Rerouting it outside gets its own written price before any work.
Weather Service storm reports have Burke Road under water at Heritage Square Drive, by Pohick Creek, on nine days since April 2018, most recently July 31, 2025. Lake Braddock is one of six lakes the county says were built in the Pohick Creek watershed between 1970 and 1985 for flood prevention, but your basement depends on your own pump. When that road closes, go downstairs: watch the pump empty the pit and shut off, and check the walls for seepage. Then call us and we’ll look over the pump, the check valve and where the discharge ends.
$697 installed in your existing pit: a new cast iron pump, a quiet check valve, new PVC to your discharge line, a battery water alarm, the old pump hauled away and a bucket test. A new or deeper pit, discharge line work outside, a battery backup and a dedicated circuit are extra, priced in writing before we start. A new pump and a battery backup installed together are $3,200.
Yes. Pour five gallons of water into the pit. The float should rise, the pump should start within a few seconds, and it should shut off clean once the water’s down. If you hear water rushing back into the pit after it stops, that’s the check valve.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
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SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Burke and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,132 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.