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A Lovettsville plumber for frozen pipes, leaks and drains: drain cleaning for one fixture is $200 to $800, priced before any work starts.
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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 Lovettsville
The pipes that freeze in a Lovettsville house are rarely the buried ones. It’s the supply line in an outside wall, the hose bib on the north side, the run over the garage, and on a county lot the pipe out to a barn. The Purcellville station, the closest with normals, averages about 115 nights a year at or below freezing, and a Lovettsville weather station read five below zero on January 23, 2025.
December 2022 brought both troubles in about a day. Flooding closed Quarter Branch Road on the night of the 22nd, a spotter just east of town measured 2.24 inches of rain by the next morning, and by 11:40 that night the wind chill in Lovettsville was nine below. In June 2021, heavy rain washed out Rodeffer Road at Milltown Road and closed South Church Street near Fry Farm. After a storm like that, check the pipes on the outside walls as well as the basement.
Inside the town limits the water comes from the Town’s own wells, but two pieces are yours: the pipe from the meter into the house and the sewer lateral from the property line in, backups included. Miss Utility won’t mark either one, so know where they run before a fence post goes in. Out past the limits, plenty of 20180 houses draw from a private well, as about a quarter of Loudoun residents do. The well, pump and pressure tank go to a licensed well contractor; the pipes in the house are ours.
The oldest plumbing sits in the oldest houses. The Census counts 88 homes in town from 1939 or earlier and 78 from the 1950s, and a house that age often drains through cast iron and may still carry a run of galvanized steel. Corroded pipe has little give when water freezes inside it.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
What you’d notice
That’s usually a frozen pipe in an outside wall or a sink cabinet. Open the faucet, warm the spot with a hair dryer, never a flame, and shut the main if you see water. When a split hides in a wall, leak detection runs $200 to $500.
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.
Choosing a plumber
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
A pipe that froze once will freeze again in the same spot. Ask whether the repair moves it out of the cold wall, insulates it or adds a shutoff, and get that priced beside the patch.
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.
They managed to come the same day that I called about a leak which was helpful. They cut into my ceiling (where the leak was coming from), identified it, and was able to fix it there and then. Much appreciated and seemed a reasonable price.
Where we work
Next door to Lovettsville: Waterford, Paeonian Springs, Hamilton, Purcellville and Leesburg.
Questions
Loudoun County designs for a frost depth of 24 inches, so a buried water line should sit below that. The lines to a detached garage, a barn or a yard hydrant are the ones that sometimes end up shallower, and they’re the first to freeze.
Leave the heat on, no lower than the mid 50s, open the sink cabinets on outside walls, and shut the main valve so a split can’t run for days. On a well, switching off the pump’s breaker does the same job.
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 Lovettsville 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.