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Sump pump replacement in Lovettsville: $697 installed in your existing pit. A new pit, a battery backup, outside drain work or new wiring is extra.
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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 Lovettsville
Inside the town limits the Town Code covers this twice. No cellar floor drain may be connected to the Town’s sewer, and roof, foundation and groundwater drains have to empty to a natural outlet or a storm sewer unless the town manager approves another connection in writing. A sump pump is a groundwater drain with a motor, so in Lovettsville its water belongs outside. If the pump you have now empties into the laundry tub or down a basement drain, the replacement is the moment to re-route it.
The Town has its reasons. Its plan calls wet-weather groundwater in the sewer a significant problem, and a basement pump tied into a house drain sends a storm’s worth of it straight to the plant.
Lovettsville sits in the Loudoun Valley between the Short Hill and the Catoctin Mountains, and the storms find it. In the December 2022 flash freeze, a gauge two miles east-northeast of town caught 2.24 inches of rain and Quarter Branch Road closed for flooding; by the night of the 23rd the wind chill in town read 9 below. That’s the worst pairing a sump can get: a full pit pushing water into an outside line that’s freezing. Loudoun builds to a 24 inch frost depth, and a discharge pipe lying shallower than that can ice shut.
Snow comes in big doses here too. A spotter two miles east-northeast of town measured 30 inches in February 2010, a storm that knocked out power across Loudoun under the weight of the snow, and western Loudoun took 30 to 36 inches in January 2016. A melt like that keeps a pit filling for days, sometimes while the power is still out, which is the job a battery backup is for.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When it’s time
In a cold snap that usually means ice in the outside line. A weather station in Lovettsville read 5 below on January 23, 2025 and again on January 27, 2026, and the Purcellville station nearby averages about 115 nights a year at or below freezing. Unplug the pump and call us to find where the line froze.
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.
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.
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Where we work
Next door to Lovettsville: Waterford, Paeonian Springs, Hamilton, Purcellville and Leesburg.
Questions
Not on your own say-so. The Town Code lets groundwater drains empty to a storm sewer, but nobody may connect to or alter a storm sewer in Lovettsville without the town manager’s written permit. Most sump lines simply end in the yard, downhill and well clear of the foundation.
Start with the Town’s floodplain map. Its rules work from FEMA’s flood map for Lovettsville, dated February 17, 2017, and let the Town map local ponding spots the federal map leaves out; the Town office keeps the map on file. A lot on either is a reason to keep the pump young and add a battery backup.
The end of the discharge line, first: a plow pile or a drift on top of it leaves the pump nowhere to send the water. Then watch the pit through the first warm afternoon.
$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.
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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 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.