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A sewer camera inspection in Gainesville costs $89 if we’re already there for another job, or $500 to $1,700 as its own visit. Most lines here are PVC.
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Our plumbing team with the SeeSnake sewer camera, the drain machine and the jetter.
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
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 Gainesville
Almost nothing under a Gainesville yard is old enough for the pipe itself to fail. In the part of 20155 the Census counts as Gainesville, eight in ten homes date from 2000 or later and barely four in a hundred from before 1980, the era of clay, cast iron and tar paper Orangeburg. The lateral here is nearly always PVC with glued joints, so the camera checks workmanship and what the years did to it: the slope, each joint, any low spots.
What the years do depends on the ground. Sampled across the Census’s Gainesville, Prince William County’s soils map rates about half the land Category II, a class its standards tie to a high water table or shallow rock, and about four in ten Category III, its label for shrink-swell, compressible or floodplain ground. Backfill over a sewer trench in ground like that can keep settling for years, and pipe that dips with it holds a puddle of water and paper.
When a drain here backs up, the odds favor your own line. Prince William Water runs about 1,200 miles of sewer main and says backups from its mains happen fewer than ten times a year. If the neighbors’ drains are slow too, call its emergency dispatch. If not, look at your line: Prince William Water puts lines on private property on the owner.
Virginia Oaks holds the oldest of it. The community dates to 1994, and its 561 homes sit beside more than 170 acres of woods along Lake Manassas. Roots can’t get through sound PVC, but a joint that shifted in settling ground is an opening, and thirty years gives them time to find it. Heritage Hunt, zoned in 1997, sits outside the Census lines; in one of its four condominiums the drain beyond your unit is usually shared, so the association’s documents decide who books the camera.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When it’s worth a look
In a house that young the pipe is seldom the cause. Prince William Water says never to flush wipes, even ones sold as flushable, or pour grease down the drain. After clearing, the camera shows whether a clog washed through or a sag is waiting for the next one.
Plastic pipe doesn’t rust, but the trench it was laid in can settle and leave a sag that holds water and paper. If the line has never had a camera in it, nobody knows.
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.
Choosing who runs the camera
Questions to ask anybody who offers to put a camera down your line, us included.
Ask for the footage and the distance from the cleanout to anything wrong. Prince William Water permits and inspects any lateral repair outside the house, and a measured spot gets that repair priced as one hole, not a guess.
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
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
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 Gainesville: Catharpin, Haymarket, Broad Run, Bristow and The Plains.
Questions
Usually not. Prince William Water’s standards give each lot its own connection to the main, so a townhouse normally has its own lateral and its own capped cleanout near the property line. Find yours first; in a row of identical yards it can sit a few feet from the neighbor’s.
Then these prices don’t fit it: they’re for lines that run to Prince William Water’s sewer. SwiftPro does no septic work.
$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.
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 Gainesville 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.