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A sewer camera inspection in Clifton is $89 added to a visit, or $500 to $1,700 on its own, for a line to county sewer, a septic tank or the Town’s vault.
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Our plumbing team with the SeeSnake sewer camera, the drain machine and the jetter.
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The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
What it costs
Why we’re at the house decides which price you pay. On its own, the line often has to be cleared before the camera can see anything, and that’s what moves the number.
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
Sewer camera inspection on its own
$500 to $1,700
A locator on the camera head marks the spot and its depth on the ground, so if something needs fixing you know where. If the line is fine, nobody talks about digging.
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 Clifton
Inside the Town of Clifton the sewer is far younger than the houses. The Town’s plan says they drained to septic fields and privies until the late 1960s, when Fairfax County laid lines through the wettest, most crowded part of town for a treatment plant that was never built, and settled on a pump and haul station instead. New development was kept off those lines, so a house on them most likely got its own pipe when those first hookups were made.
Pipe laid then may be cast iron, clay or Orangeburg, pressed tar paper pipe still sold in those years that sags out of round as it ages. The plan notes significant stands of mature forest in town, and roots find any joint that has opened. Whatever slips into a cracked line, groundwater included, rides to one concrete vault that gets emptied by truck.
Out on the five-acre lots along Clifton, Compton and Yates Ford Roads, the county’s plan for the Occoquan watershed keeps public sewer away. The pipe runs from the house to a septic tank, and that stretch is the camera’s. The tank and the drainfield belong to a licensed septic contractor, and SwiftPro does no septic work, so when the footage says the pipe is sound, that’s who we’ll tell you to call.
Around Springstone Drive and Union Mill Road the 1980s subdivisions drain to county sewer, and about nine in ten homes in that Census tract went up in that one decade. Pipe that age is plastic, so the camera there reads slope and joints more than the pipe itself.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Clifton mail outside the town: five- to ten-acre lots in the Occoquan watershed on Clifton, Compton and Yates Ford Roads, mostly on septic, and the 1980s subdivisions off Springstone Drive and Union Mill Road on county sewer.
ZIP 20124 as a whole, the Town included: its own homes are too few for steady Census figures.
When it’s worth a look
Learn first whether it’s on the pump and haul or its own septic field, then put a camera down whichever line it has. The Town’s plan holds new hookups to a short list of eligible lots, so the sewer that comes with the house is very likely the one you keep.
Roots don’t break a sewer line. They find a crack or a loose joint that’s already there and grow into it, which is why a line under old trees is worth a look before it slows down.
When the washer empties and water rises in the basement floor drain, or a toilet gurgles while a sink runs, the main line isn’t carrying it all away. The camera shows why.
Who owns the line
The Town has no sewer main to a treatment plant. Since about 1970 a county pump and haul station at the end of Chapel Street has collected from the properties on its lines, and the county plan says public sewer should go no further; the Town’s plan counts every other property on its own septic field. Source.
In Fairfax County the homeowner owns the whole sewer lateral, from the house to the county main, including the stretch under the street. Replacing it takes a county plumbing permit, plus a VDOT permit under a state road. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who runs the camera
Questions to ask anybody who offers to put a camera down your line, us included.
On a septic lot a backup can be the pipe, or the tank and the field, and those are two trades. Ask whoever runs the camera to mark where the pipe meets the tank and to show you everything up to it.
Ask to see it and to keep a copy. “It’s roots” with nothing to show for it is a guess, and a guess is a bad reason to dig up a yard.
A company that only digs tends to see a dig, and one that only lines tends to see a liner. We do both, so the footage decides, not the truck.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
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Nii is the best. He’s been to the house twice – once for a galvanized to PVC piping change-out, and another time for a badly clogged kitchen line that wouldn’t budge with my snake and a good bit of effort. Super nice guy, very skilled, fair, calm, etc. Exactly what you want in a plumber.
Where we work
Next door to Clifton: Fairfax Station, Burke, Manassas, Centreville and Fairfax.
Questions
Yes, from the house to the tank: in at a cleanout, stopping at the tank’s inlet. Past that it’s septic contractor ground, and Fairfax County wants the tank pumped at least every five years whatever the pipe looks like.
Fairfax County first, at its 24-hour line, 703-323-1211, so its crew can rule out the county main. If the main is running, the backup is in the line from your house, and that’s where the camera comes in: $89 when we’re already there clearing it, $500 to $1,700 booked on its own.
$89 added to a visit we’re already making, $500 to $1,700 booked on its own. The difference is clearing: a visit just for the camera often has to clear the line first.
If the house is older or has big trees out front, yes. A standard home inspection usually doesn’t include one, and in most of Northern Virginia the line from the house toward the street is the owner’s to fix.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. You get the price in writing first, and if the camera says the line is fine, that’s what we’ll tell you.
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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 Clifton 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.