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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 Orlean, where every house pumps its own water out of granite. We test the pump, its wire and the tank before anything gets pulled. 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 Orlean
Nobody in Orlean is on a water main. The Fauquier County Water and Sanitation Authority’s 2025 water report covers 16 public systems, and none of them is here, so every house from the crossroads out to the farm lots along Thumb Run and Cabin Branch draws from a well on its own ground. The rock under the village is mapped as Marshall Metagranite, a granite more than a billion years old. Water in rock like that collects in cracks instead of a bed of sand, so one well can run strong while another a field away works hard for every gallon.
Virginia Cooperative Extension tested 97 Fauquier County wells from 2012 through 2017, most of them drilled, between 50 and 705 feet deep. The finding at the top of its list was low pH: 46 percent of samples came in under 6.5. Extension’s reading is simple. Water that acidic is corrosive, and inside the house it works on brass fittings and copper pipe. On a well system the brass is bunched at the tank, in the tee, the gauge and the nipples under the pressure switch, so that’s the first place we look in an Orlean basement. Green crust or a slow weep at those joints tells you what the water has been doing for years.
Most houses out here are younger than the village. The Census block group centered on Orlean spreads across about 26 square miles and 576 homes, every one detached, with a median build year of 1982; 387 of them went up between 1970 and 1999. A house that age has likely worn out more than one pressure tank, maybe a pump too, while the wire down the hole is often original. Extension’s Fauquier clinic turned up wells as old as 67 years, so on an older farm the hole in the ground can be decades older than anything hanging in it.
Then there’s the power. On June 22, 2022, the National Weather Service estimated gusts of 80 to 90 mph on a path that reached Orlean, with thousands of trees down, and every house that lost power lost its water with it. When the lights return and the faucets stay dry, the usual culprits are a breaker that tripped on the restart or a pressure switch with burned contacts. Both get a meter on them in the basement before anybody hauls a pump up out of the granite.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Orlean’s own ZIP, 20128, is post office boxes only, so the Census Bureau maps no area for it. These are ZIP 20115 as a whole, the Marshall ZIP area Orlean sits in, Marshall included.
When to call
More than half the Fauquier well owners in Extension’s clinics had some treatment on the line, and the most common piece was a sediment filter. A cartridge packed with grit drops the pressure at every faucet the way a worn pump does, so on an Orlean call the filter housing comes open before the well cap does.
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.
On acidic water the tee and the switch fittings wear out alongside the tank. Ask whether the quote includes them, and what the old ones looked like coming off. A new tank bolted onto corroded brass is half a repair.
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 Orlean: Amissville, Marshall, Warrenton, Delaplane and Rectortown.
Questions
Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Culpeper office keeps a wait list for its next drinking water clinic and publishes results for Fauquier, Culpeper and Rappahannock wells. Knowing your pH tells us what should go back on the tank.
It can. Fauquier’s clinic wells ran from 50 to 705 feet, and the deeper a pump hangs, the more wire and pipe come up with it. A pump on your existing pipe and wire is $2,781 to $4,000; if the wire tests bad on the way up, that’s $4,900 to $6,500. If the well itself has run short, that’s a drilling rig, not a plumber, and we’ll tell you who to call.
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.
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 Orlean 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.