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Sump pump replacement in Chantilly is $697, set in the pit you have now. A new or deeper pit, a battery backup, outside piping or a new circuit costs 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 Chantilly
The Census doesn’t count basements, so nobody can honestly say how many Chantilly houses have one. Fairfax County’s soil guide does explain what a basement here is up against: the county’s west end, along the Loudoun line, sits on the red sandstone, siltstone and shale of the Triassic Basin, where the soil over the rock is often shallow, 2 to 10 feet to bedrock, and large flat areas drain slowly and poorly.
The county even maps a soil named Chantilly: dark red ground mixed, graded and compacted as the subdivisions went in, and slow to let water through. On one natural soil of the basin’s level uplands, the guide puts a seasonal water table perched on the bedrock 18 to 30 inches down, and says foundation drains and waterproofing are often needed to keep basements dry. Those drains usually empty into the pit.
In 20151 the typical owner’s house went up in 1987, and about 1 in 4 homes is a townhouse. The county’s soil and water district says Virginia groundwater tends to run highest in February and March, after snowmelt and rain. That’s when a worn pump meets its hardest weeks, so a dry day in January is the time to find out it’s tired.
Both sides of Chantilly send the water the same way: out, never into the sewer. Fairfax County calls an unpermitted sump pump tied into the sanitary sewer illegal, since that water can overload the system and push raw sewage into streets, streams and basements. In South Riding, where the typical owner’s house dates from 2006 and nearly half the homes are townhouses, Loudoun Water says sump pumps shouldn’t connect to its sewer lines and wants the water out on the yard, far enough from the foundation that it can’t soak back into the drains. With a narrow townhouse yard and a neighbor close by, that takes planning.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Riding | 2006 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | Newer basements: the pump may still be the builder’s. |
| Chantilly | 1987 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 5 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
In ground this slow, foundation drains can keep feeding the pit for days after heavy rain, right when groundwater runs highest. A pump that used to keep the water well below the rim and now lets it climb while running flat out has usually lost strength. That’s a new pump, not a repair.
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.
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 Chantilly: Centreville, Catharpin, Herndon, Aldie and Oakton.
Questions
Not from the county. Loudoun County’s flood grant covers a single subdivision, and South Riding isn’t it, so on the 20152 side a backup is yours to pay for in full. The county program shown on this page is for the 20151 side. Installed with a new pump, the pair is $3,200.
Usually it isn’t today’s rain. In slow, compacted ground over shallow rock, water that soaked in days ago keeps reaching the foundation drains, and in late winter the groundwater itself is up. Steady running in February is normal. Short bursts every few minutes in a dry August usually point at the check valve or the float switch.
Summer too. The Weather Service’s storm records for 20151 include Walney Road closed by flash flooding on Flatlick Branch in October 2011, a water rescue on Old Lee Road at Stonecroft Boulevard in April 2014, and in 2025 water flowing across Lees Corner Road near Route 50 on June 15 and six to eight inches deep across Route 28 south of Westfields Boulevard on July 12. On this slow red ground, a cloudburst like those can keep the foundation drains running for a day or more, so once it passes, watch the pump empty the pit. If it can’t keep up, call us and we’ll check the pump, the float, the check valve and where the line comes out.
$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.
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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.