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Drain cleaning on one fixture in Catlett runs $200 to $800, and toilet repair $250 to $900. Cedar Run floods and hard freezes set the rest of the list.
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Part of our plumbing team, with the drain machine, the sewer camera and the jetter they bring to the house.
Licensed and insuredVirginia Class A contractor #2705192276
24/7 emergency serviceOften same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
Our own plumbers, our own trucksNobody here is a subcontractor with a magnet on the door
The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
What it costs
The same list as our plumbing page, every line a range because the house decides where it lands. You get the number before the work starts.
Drain cleaning, one fixture
$200 to $800
Main sewer line cleaning
$550 to $1,650
Sewer camera inspection, added to a visit
$89
Leak detection
$200 to $500
Toilet repair
$250 to $900
Pressure reducing valve replacement
$500 to $1,000
Water heater replacement
$2,757 to $10,486
or $46/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
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
A sewer camera inspection is $89 added to a visit we’re already making. It’s the cheapest way to know what a drain is doing before anybody talks about digging.
With Comfort+ membership, any service is 15% off, and a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection and a plumbing safety inspection comes every year.
What’s different in Catlett
Cedar Run’s floodplain spreads across the farmland around Catlett, and the Weather Service gauges it. At 15 feet water approaches a low spot on Flatwood Lane; at 21 the Route 806 bridge floods and water gets into buildings nearby. It crested at 18.2 feet on July 12, 2013, when flash flooding closed roads in Catlett, and at 15.91 feet on July 17, 2025. In November 2020 high water shut Elk Run Road between Tenerife Road and Sowego Road.
The ground doesn’t help. Catlett sits about 260 feet up in what the County calls a nearly flat basin, on “blackjack” soils its plan blames for decades of failed drainfields. Ground that won’t take a drainfield’s water is often slow with rain too. A sump pump that ran nonstop through the last storm and still lost ground is likely undersized or worn out; replacing it is one flat price on our sump pump page. After any big storm, call and we’ll inspect it all.
Then the freezes. NOAA’s Warrenton 3 SE co-op, about seven miles west-northwest, averages close to 100 nights a year when the low hits 32 or colder, and about 13 days when the high stays at 32 or under; it dropped to 3 on January 7, 2014. Fauquier County’s code puts the frost line 24 inches down, and pipe buried deeper rides out the cold. What splits is pipe that isn’t buried: a hose bibb, a supply line in an outside wall or a crawlspace, plumbing in an unheated outbuilding.
Much of the village drinks from FCWSA’s small Catlett system; past it, the water comes from a private well. Homes on the County’s sewer drain to a STEP tank out in the yard, while the rest still use septic. Our part is the house: every pipe past the well’s pressure tank, the fixtures, the water heater, the drains, and the building sewer out to the STEP tank, which the owner keeps. The well, its pump, the STEP tank and septic systems go to other trades or the County.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIP 20119 as a whole: every Catlett address, the village included. The Census place for the village alone has too few homes for steady figures.
What you’d notice
A supply pipe in an outside wall can split on a single-digit night and show nothing until it thaws. Close the main valve; if you can’t see where the water’s coming from, leak detection finds it, $200 to $500, before anybody opens a wall.
Galvanized steel supply pipe rusts from the inside, so the pressure falls slowly until a shower upstairs is a trickle. The fix is new pipe, not a new faucet.
A damp patch on a ceiling, a warm spot on the floor, a meter that keeps ticking with every tap off. A slow leak inside a wall does most of its damage before it ever shows itself.
One slow sink is a sink. Two slow drains on different floors are sharing the pipe out to the street, and a basement drain that gurgles while you run water upstairs is the main line talking.
After a heavy rain
Heavy rain finds the weak spots in a house’s plumbing. Four checks you can make yourself, then call us and we’ll look at the rest.
Clear water with no smell is usually groundwater. Gray water, or a sewer smell, means the main line is backing up: stop running water in the house and call us.
A main line with a cracked joint or roots in it can take in groundwater during a storm and slow down. A sewer camera inspection, $89 added to a visit, shows where.
If the house has one, watch it once: it should start as the pit fills, empty it and shut off. Our sump pump replacement page has the rest of the checks.
If floodwater got to a gas water heater’s burner or controls, leave it off. Don’t relight it until a plumber has checked it.
Call us after a storm and we’ll check it all: the floor drains, the main line, the sump pump and the water heater. Any repair gets its price in writing before the work starts.
Your pipes, your paperwork
On FCWSA water (Bealeton, Catlett, Marshall, New Baltimore, Vint Hill and its other systems), FCWSA says it can’t guarantee uniform pressure, and that over 80 psi the customer should install a pressure regulating valve at their own expense. Homes on private wells aren’t covered by this. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing a plumber
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
Anyone can check on the state’s license lookup in about a minute. It’s the one question that takes the guesswork out of the rest.
A sewer camera inspection is cheap next to any dig, and it shows whether the problem is a root, a sag or a break. A quote to dig without one is a guess.
Every plumbing job on our list has a range. A plumber who won’t say where yours lands until the wall’s open is asking for a blank check.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
My technician James gave an honest assessment of my situation, clearly laid out the scope of work, and provided different pricing options to resolve my concern. I will definitely call SwiftPro in the future for any plumbing needs!
Where we work
Next door to Catlett: Calverton, Casanova, Midland, Nokesville and Bristow.
Questions
Before the first hard freeze. The median first 32 degree night at the Warrenton station is around November 1, so about half of all autumns freeze sooner. Unhook the hoses, close the inside shutoff if there is one, and open the outside tap so it drains.
A well pump runs on electricity, so once the pressure tank empties, the faucets go dry. A STEP tank’s pump stops too, so go easy on water until the lights are back. And a sump pump quits just as a storm fills the pit: the case for a battery backup.
It depends on the job, and every one has a published range: drain cleaning for one fixture $200 to $800, main sewer line cleaning $550 to $1,650, leak detection $200 to $500, a pressure reducing valve replacement $500 to $1,000, toilet repair $250 to $900. A sewer camera inspection added to a visit is $89.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. You get the price before the work, and if it can wait, we’ll tell you that too.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
44679 Endicott Dr, Suite 211, Ashburn, VA 20147
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 Catlett 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.