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A new well pump on your existing pipe and wire runs $2,781 to $4,000 installed.
Price range
$2,781-$4,000
8yrs @ 7.99%
$39/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$30/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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Well pump repair in Catlett, 20119: the village drinks from FCWSA’s tower, the farms around it from wells of their own. We test pump and tank before we pull. The $49 plumbing visit that tests it first is waived when you go ahead with the repair.
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Two of our plumbers in a Northern Virginia mechanical room, where a well’s pressure tank usually lives.
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 span of what we’ve quoted and sold for well work in 2026. Depth, wire and what’s worn out set where yours lands, in writing before anything comes out of the well.
Pressure switch replacement
$450 to $609
Pressure tank replacement
$2,200 to $2,950
or $37/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Well pump replacement
$2,781 to $4,000
or $46/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Well pump, new wire and drop pipe
$4,900 to $6,500
or $82/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Well pump, pressure tank and switch
$6,200 to $8,000
or $103/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Deep well or full system rebuild
$9,500 to $16,500
or $158/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Plumbing visit, waived when you go ahead with the repair
$49
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
The $49 visit is waived when you go ahead with the repair. Pulling a pump just to look at it is $1,300 to $2,000, so we test the tank, the switch and the pump’s wire from the house first.
Replacing a pump needs no health department well permit in Virginia. We don’t drill or deepen wells; if yours needs that, we’ll tell you who to call.
Want your own number before anyone comes out? The well pump cost estimator asks what the water is doing and prices the likely fix.
What’s different in Catlett
Catlett’s public water is about the simplest system in the county. FCWSA’s two village wells, 270 and 264 feet deep, pump up into the elevated tank on Old Dumfries Road, and the height of that tank is the pressure at your tap. A house on those mains has a meter, no pump in the yard and no pressure tank in the basement. FCWSA itself calls the Catlett system fairly remote, slow to reach at times, which is why it put online monitoring on it.
The village is a small slice of the ZIP. The Census puts 138 homes in the Catlett Census place and close to 1,600 across 20119, nearly every one in Fauquier and a handful over the Prince William line. Most of those are on the roads out of town, toward Elk Run, Old Dumfries and the dairy farms the County’s plan says still operate here. Off the tower’s mains, the water at the sink comes up a well, through a submersible pump and into a tank in the house, and every piece of it is the owner’s to keep running.
The houses span a long time. Catlett grew up around a stop on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, built through in 1852, and its historic buildings run from the 1850s into the 1950s. Across 20119, about one owner home in six predates 1960, and every home the Census counts here stands on its own lot. That mix means we meet both a century-old house whose well has outlived several pumps and a 1990s place on acreage where the tank and switch are the builder’s. The first question is which parts have been changed and when.
Then there’s Cedar Run. Its gauge near Catlett crested at 18.2 feet in July 2013 and almost 16 feet in July 2025, and at 21 feet the Route 806 bridge floods and water gets into buildings nearby. If a well head in that floodplain went under, keep the pump off until the wiring dries, then shock the well with chlorine before anyone drinks from it. Virginia Cooperative Extension says to chlorinate after any repair to a well system too, so we bring it up every time a pump comes out.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
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.
When to call
On the village mains, low pressure at your neighbors’ houses too points at FCWSA’s tank or wells, so call the Authority. One house on its own well with weak or no water is a different story: the pump, its wire, the switch or the tank, and that’s ours to test.
Where most houses heat with propane or electricity, there’s usually no utility line running down the road at all, and the water comes from a well on the lot. That makes the pump the most important appliance in the house.
A pump that starts every few seconds usually means the pressure tank lost its air cushion. Every start wears the motor, so it’s worth a call this week, not next month.
When the power goes out
The Virginia Department of Health puts it simply: if your home is on a well, the pump won’t work when the power is out. Here’s what to do before, during and after.
When a big storm is coming, fill a few jugs and the bathtub. Once the pump stops, all you have is what’s left in the pressure tank, and toilets need water to flush.
Many well pumps run on 240 volts. Franklin Electric’s installation manual says a transfer switch must be used any time a generator backs up a well pump, and VDH says to have the hookup made by a licensed electrician.
Franklin’s minimum for a 1 horsepower two-wire pump is a 6 kW generator, and 4 kW for a 1 horsepower three-wire pump. Not sure which yours is? The control box on the wall in the basement means three-wire.
Give the pump a minute to refill the tank. No water? Look at the well pump’s breaker. A surge can also take out the pressure switch or the control box, which we can test from the house.
VDH says to treat a well that was under floodwater as contaminated, and not to run the pump until its wiring is dry. Then shock chlorinate the well and test the water one to two weeks later.
Virginia Cooperative Extension recommends shock chlorinating after any repair to a well system, then a bacteria test one to two weeks later. A well’s water is the owner’s to look after: the EPA doesn’t regulate private wells.
Power back and still no water? Check the breaker, then call us. We’ll test the switch, the control box and the pump from the house before anything comes out of the well.
Who keeps the well records
In Fauquier County, groundwater supplies every private household well and most public water systems, drawn from fractured rock: Blue Ridge rock in the northwest of the county, basin sedimentary rock in the southeast. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who works on it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Depth drives the price. A pump set a few hundred feet down means that much wire and drop pipe to pull, and possibly to replace. A good quote asks for the well’s paperwork, or explains how they’ll find out, before naming a number.
Pulling a pump is the expensive part of the job. Ask whether they check the tank’s air charge, the pressure switch and the pump’s amp draw and wire from the house first, so you don’t pay to pull a pump that was fine.
Ask for the part that failed and its price, written down, before the pump comes up. If the price can change once the pump is out, ask what would change it, like worn wire or a bad pitless adapter.
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.
“Tyson came out to diagnose our well system and did so with ease! Within no time he had it figured out and provided a solution for us. Very reasonable pricing, phenomenal quality of work and knowledge can’t be beat!”
Where we work
Next door to Catlett: Calverton, Casanova, Midland, Nokesville and Bristow.
Questions
If you have the papers from when the well was drilled, the depth is on them. If not, we learn it when the pump comes up. It matters because a deeper pump means more wire and drop pipe, which is the difference between a pump alone at $2,781 to $4,000 and a pump with new wire and pipe at $4,900 to $6,500.
Not for a well pump. Pressure on the Catlett mains comes from FCWSA’s tank, so a pressure problem everywhere is theirs. A leak, a bad valve or a failing water heater on your side of the meter is plumbing, and that’s work we do every day. See our plumbing page.
A new submersible pump on your existing pipe and wire runs $2,781 to $4,000 installed, and with new wire and drop pipe it’s $4,900 to $6,500. A pressure tank alone is $2,200 to $2,950 and a pressure switch is $450 to $609. You get the number in writing before we pull anything.
Not a well permit. Virginia’s private well rules say replacing a pump, or a well cap or seal with an equivalent one, isn’t a well alteration. Building, deepening or abandoning a well does need a health department construction permit.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. No water at all? Call, and say so first. Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
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4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
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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.