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A sewer camera inspection in Dumfries is $89 added to a visit, or $500 to $1,700 on its own. Town lines run from pre-1960 pipe to 1990s PVC.
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Our plumbing team with the SeeSnake sewer camera, the drain machine and the jetter.
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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 Dumfries
Inside the Town of Dumfries about one owner home in ten went up before 1960, most on the older single-family streets. Town records date the houses on Whitehaven from 1930 on and Tripoli Heights from 1950 on, with newer ones in between. A line laid that early is usually clay or cast iron, and a 1950s or 60s house may drain through Orangeburg, pressed tar paper pipe that loses its round shape over the decades. On those lots the camera goes in before any cable does.
Most of the Town is younger. Close to half its owner homes date from 1980 through 1999, the townhouse rows among them: Williamstown from 1974 to 1991, Port O’Dumfries from 1974 to 1988, South Cove from 1988 to 1992. By then the pipe to the street was usually plastic. It won’t rust, but the Town’s plan lists shrink-swell clay and seasonal wetness among the soil problems here, and ground that swells and dries around a pipe can shift a joint or leave a low spot.
Then there are roots. The Town’s plan puts its woods between Main Street and Prince William Forest Park, with more along Dewey’s Creek and Cannonball Run. Prince William Water lists roots getting in through cracks among the reasons sewer lines overflow, and the camera finds the joint they came in by.
Past the town line, Montclair’s houses are mostly 1980s and 90s, median 1989, and Cherry Hill’s newer still, median 2005, so the camera there is checking grade and joints on plastic pipe. Some older lots in and around the Town still drain to septic systems older than the public sewer, the Town’s plan says. SwiftPro does no septic work; these prices are for lines that run to Prince William Water’s sewer.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and the sewer pipe houses that age usually have.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | The sewer line you usually find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair | 1989 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | electricity, about 5 in 10 | PVC to the street, mostly; a settled trench can leave a sag. |
| Cherry Hill | 2005 | townhouses, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | PVC throughout, worth a look before the house changes hands. |
| Dumfries | 1985 | townhouses, about 4 in 10 | electricity, about 5 in 10 | PVC to the street, mostly; a settled trench can leave a sag. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Nearly all of the Town sits in 22026, with a sliver in Triangle’s 22172. None of it is in 22025.
Montclair in 22025, where the Postal Service accepts Montclair as the town name; Southbridge and Cherry Hill in 22026, outside the town line.
ZIPs 22025 and 22026 as a whole: Montclair, Cherry Hill and the rest of Dumfries mail, the Town’s homes included.
When it’s worth a look
Drains that slow after a soaking rain and recover in dry weather point at water getting into the line: through a crack, or a downspout or area drain somebody tied in years ago. Prince William Water names both as causes of sewer overflows. The camera shows which.
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.
A main line that needs clearing every year or two has a reason, and clearing it again doesn’t find it. A camera down the line after it’s cleared does.
Choosing who runs the camera
Questions to ask anybody who offers to put a camera down your line, us included.
Prince William Water says the cleanout, a capped pipe into your line, usually sits near the property line. Starting there means nothing inside the house comes apart. Ask whether they’ll find yours first.
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
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We had Tyson out for our main line leaking underground, he explained the scope of work for replacement and set great expectations. They had the job done in a very timely manner and I couldn’t ask for more professionalism than he provided!
Where we work
Next door to Dumfries: Triangle, Quantico, Woodbridge, Lorton and Stafford.
Questions
Prince William Water puts the lines on private property on the owner, and repairing or replacing the lateral outside the house takes the utility’s own permit and inspection. Inside the town limits, the Town’s plumbing permit lists a building sewer too, by the 100 feet. For the stretch past your cleanout, ask Prince William Water.
On a lot from before 1960, yes. A line that old can be clay, cast iron or Orangeburg, and nothing in the listing will say which. The camera finds the pipe, the joints and any roots, we show you what it finds before you close, and on its own it runs $500 to $1,700.
$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.
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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 Dumfries 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.