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Sump pump replacement in Upperville, where old cellars and wet drainageways keep a pit busy. A new or deeper pit, a battery backup, discharge line work outside and a dedicated circuit are extra, priced in writing before we start.
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What it costs
The same price as our sump pump replacement page: one flat number for a new pump in a pit that’s still sound, with what costs extra named right beside it.
Sump pump replacement, installed in your existing pit
$697
Sump pump and battery backup, installed together
$3,200
or $53/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A new or deeper pit, discharge line work outside, or a dedicated circuit
Priced in writing before we start
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
$697 covers a new cast iron pump, a quiet check valve, new PVC up to your existing discharge line, a battery water alarm by the pit, the old pump hauled away and a bucket test before we leave.
A battery backup keeps pumping through a power outage, and the outage usually comes with the storm. With a new pump, the pair is $3,200 installed. The sump pump estimator helps you decide whether you need one.
What’s different in Upperville
A lot of Upperville is older than any sump pump. The state’s 2021 survey of the historic district counts 136 principal buildings, 40 of them up before 1861, in stone, brick and frame. A cellar under a house that old predates sump pumps by a century or more, so if it has a pit today, the pit was added to the floor later. The Census can’t count pits, and its sample for ZIP 20184 is small, so the age of the pump is something we read off the pump itself.
Water comes at this village from more than one side. Tanyard Branch, a branch of Panther Skin Creek, runs under Route 50 through a culvert in the village, and FEMA maps Zone A and Zone AE floodplain within a few hundred yards of its center. The County’s village plan warns that soils in the drainageways feeding Panther Skin Creek flood or hold a high seasonal water table. The nearest long rain record, at The Plains about ten miles southeast, averages 46 inches a year.
The postwar houses on Parker and Patrick Streets are a different case: four small Minimal Traditional houses, thirteen ranches and three split-levels, mostly one story. Many of that kind have a crawlspace in place of a cellar, and a crawlspace on damp ground can hold water at the low corner. Whether a pit is down there is something the visit settles. A pit in a tight crawlspace is a cramped job, and a new or deeper one is an extra, written down before work starts.
Storms take Upperville’s power along with its trees. NOAA records numerous trees and power lines down in and around the village on August 10, 2021, dozens of trees and wires on August 7, 2023, and half a mile of Route 50 shut by downed poles on May 20, 2026. A sump pump on household power stops with the rest of the house, and so does the well pump. A battery backup keeps the sump pump going; the well pump stays with your well company, since we don’t work on wells.
When it’s time
A pump can hold the pit down while water still seeps through a stone wall or along the edge of the floor. That is the ground carrying more water than the pit can see, and a new pump won’t stop it. We’ll tell you which one you have: a worn pump, or water the pump couldn’t reach.
Zoeller, who make a lot of the pumps around here, puts a sump pump’s life at seven to ten years. Past seven, replace it on your schedule instead of the storm’s.
Water is running back into the pit through a check valve that no longer closes, so the pump moves the same water again and again until it wears out.
After a heavy rain
Six checks you can make yourself once the rain lets up, none of them with your hands in the pit. Then call us and we’ll check it all.
Watch the pit during the rain or right after. The pump should start as the water rises, empty the pit and shut off. A full pit, or a pump that hums and moves nothing, isn’t keeping up.
Walk the basement: the corners, the walls, the floor by the pit, under the water heater and the furnace. Photograph any wet spot before you mop, so we can see where it came in.
Outside, find where the pump’s pipe ends. It should be open, not crushed, buried or full of leaves, and aimed away from the house so the water doesn’t run back to the foundation.
Listen when the pump shuts off. Water rushing back into the pit means the check valve isn’t closing, and the pump has to move that water again.
The pump stops when the power does, often at the height of the storm. If the basement took water during an outage, that’s the job a battery backup does.
If water is standing near the pit, an outlet or anything plugged in, don’t wade in to check. Call us, and only switch the power off at the panel from somewhere dry.
Not sure what you saw? Call us after a storm and we’ll check it all: the pump, the float, the check valve, the discharge line and where the water came in. If the pump can’t keep up, a new one is $697 installed in your existing pit; a new or deeper pit, a battery backup, discharge line work outside and a dedicated circuit are extra, priced in writing before we start.
Choosing who replaces it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
A pit that is cracked, silted or too shallow wears a new pump out early. Ask whether the tech checks the pit’s size and condition, the check valve and the discharge first, and whether any deeper pit or outside work is written down as its own item before it starts.
Ask what the number covers: the pump, the check valve, the pipe, hauling the old one off, a test before they leave. Then ask what costs extra, and get it in writing.
Cast iron, ideally. Plastic pumps cost less and are usually the ones that quit early. Ask before the old one comes out.
A discharge line that’s cracked, buried or frozen shut every January leaves the new pump pushing against a closed pipe. Whoever replaces it should check the outside end too.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
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Where we work
Next door to Upperville: Rectortown, Delaplane, Marshall, Bluemont and The Plains.
Questions
Only if there is a pit for it to sit in. A pump needs somewhere for water to collect. Where a damp crawlspace has no pit, cutting one is the first job and an item on the extras list, with its price on paper beforehand. The tech will also tell you if the damp looks like a plumbing leak, not groundwater.
By the Census Bureau’s rough survey, about seven in ten occupied homes in 20184 are rented. The pit and pump are part of the building, so replacing one is the owner’s call. Send the owner the written price, with whatever is extra beside it, and ask them to book. We’ll send the same written breakdown to whoever is on the account.
$697 installed in your existing pit: a new cast iron pump, a quiet check valve, new PVC to your discharge line, a battery water alarm, the old pump hauled away and a bucket test. A new or deeper pit, discharge line work outside, a battery backup and a dedicated circuit are extra, priced in writing before we start. A new pump and a battery backup installed together are $3,200.
Yes. Pour five gallons of water into the pit. The float should rise, the pump should start within a few seconds, and it should shut off clean once the water’s down. If you hear water rushing back into the pit after it stops, that’s the check valve.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. 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
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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 Upperville 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.