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A sewer camera inspection in Delaplane suits a house tied to a public sewer. A home on a septic tank needs a septic contractor instead.
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Our plumbing team with the SeeSnake sewer camera, the drain machine and the jetter.
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
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 Delaplane
Delaplane’s housing numbers say when the houses went up, not how they drain. ZIP 20144 counts 424 owner homes, nearly all detached, with a median build year of 1986. About half went up between 1980 and 1999, about one in four since 2000, and about one in seven before 1960. Plastic pipe is the usual story in the newer houses; the oldest farm dwellings can hide something far older. The camera reads whichever you have, once there is a line it can enter.
No water utility serves this ZIP, so the homes draw from their own wells. Outside the public water and sewer areas, the Fauquier County Health Department, a local office of the Virginia Department of Health, permits wells and septic systems. A lot outside a sewer area has a tank and drainfield of its own. We camera the first kind of line and not the second: SwiftPro does no septic work, so we won’t run a camera toward a tank.
If your address is on FCWSA sewer, the camera has a clear job. FCWSA puts two pieces on the owner: the service line running from its main out to your property line, and the lateral that carries on into the house. It clears its mains and fixes a service line under a public street, without paying a plumber’s bill. That rule covers its own sewer customers only. If the footage shows a break, the trenchless sewer repair page explains how a fix gets quoted from it.
Ground and weather leave their mark on a buried line. NOAA lists trees down at Cobbler Mountain Road in June 2022 and near Delaplane Grade Road in July 2025, and roots find the joints in a drain. FEMA maps a Zone A flood hazard within a few hundred yards of the village center, and a flash flood put water over Winchester Road in January 2013. Fauquier County’s design criteria give a frost depth of 24 inches, so a drain laid shallower can heave. Footage shows the sags and offset joints those stresses leave.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
ZIP 20144 as a whole: every Delaplane address.
When it’s worth a look
On a public sewer, a stoppage that returns within weeks usually means a root at a joint, a sag that holds water or a crack, not just a clog, and the camera finds which. If a tank sits in your yard, a backup points at the tank or its drainfield first, and that call goes to a septic contractor before it comes to us.
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
On FCWSA sewer, the service line from the main to the property line and the lateral from there to the house are the customer’s to clear. FCWSA clears its mains and fixes a service line under a public street, and it doesn’t reimburse a plumber. 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.
In a village of wells and septic systems that question comes first. A plumber who books a camera without asking is guessing. Ask what the visit covers if there’s a tank, and ask for the distance from the house to anything the camera finds, so you know where the dig would be.
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
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Plumbing system test and maintenance, including snaking the sewer line As a follow up, Tyson came out to check the system and gave us some good preventive maintenance tips.
Where we work
Next door to Delaplane: Rectortown, Upperville, Marshall, The Plains and Orlean.
Questions
Look for a sewer bill. A bill for sewer service means a main; a septic pumping receipt, or a lid in the yard, means a tank. Still unsure? The Health Department permits septic systems outside the public areas, so it is the office to ask about a lot with a tank.
Virginia’s 2004 survey of the Crooked Run Valley, Delaplane included, described a share of its recent houses as weekend or seasonal homes. If the house is on public sewer, footage before closing shows its lateral. If it has a tank, you need a septic inspection from a septic company, not a camera from us. Either way, find out which first.
$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.
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 Delaplane 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.