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Drain cleaning for one fixture is $200 to $800 in Fredericksburg’s 22405 and 22406, and main sewer line cleaning is $550 to $1,650, priced first.
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Part of our plumbing team, with the drain machine, the sewer camera and the jetter they bring to the house.
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24/7 emergency serviceOften same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
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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 Fredericksburg
Claiborne Run is the creek that keeps flooding on the Falmouth side. NOAA’s storm records show Harrell Road, or Deacon Road where it meets Harrell, under water on 14 separate days between 2010 and 2021, six of them in 2018. Tropical Storm Irene shut Harrell between Forbes Street and Deacon in August 2011, and it closed again at the Claiborne Run crossing in August 2021.
The river is the other. The National Weather Service’s Fredericksburg gauge calls 15.5 feet flood stage; at 16.5 feet water reaches River Road, and at 19.5 a home on the Stafford side takes water. In June 2021 the river closed River Road beside Pratt Memorial Park. Falmouth’s village sits about 59 feet above sea level, the middle of the two ZIPs near 222, so the low ground by the river and creek is where hard rain most likely puts water where it doesn’t belong.
Most yards have a short capped pipe, the sewer cleanout. Stafford County Utilities asks owners to keep that cap on at all times, since an open cleanout can lead to a sewer backup. After a storm, walk out and check it: a cap knocked off by a falling limb lets rainwater and debris into your line. The County also says to check your trees, because roots can block a sewer lateral.
Freezing is the winter risk. The Fredericksburg station averages about 100 nights a year at 32 or colder, and late January 2026 brought wind chills of zero to 10 below. Stafford County Utilities’ list: drain the hose bibs before the first hard freeze, open sink cabinets on outside walls in a cold snap, and drip the faucet farthest from your main shut-off. A frozen pipe gets warm, wet towels, never a flame, and one that split usually shows itself as it thaws; leak detection runs $200 to $500.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIPs 22405 and 22406 as a whole: Fredericksburg mail on the Stafford County side, not the City of Fredericksburg.
What you’d notice
Stafford’s utilities FAQ points at a dry trap first: a floor drain or spare shower left dry for weeks lets sewer gas through. Pour a pitcher of water down it and run the fixtures. If the smell keeps coming back, the trap or a vent needs a look.
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.
Lukewarm showers, hot water that runs out halfway, banging or rumbling from the tank. Rumbling is sediment, and it’s the noise a water heater makes in its last couple of years.
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.
Your pipes, your paperwork
Stafford County Utilities’ side of the water service ends at the meter; the line from the meter to the house is the owner’s. On sewer the owner’s side runs to the cleanout, or with no cleanout, out to the VDOT right of way or utility easement. The County asks you to call Utilities before a plumber to sort out who owns the repair. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing a plumber
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
When every drain backs up at once, the cleanout tells the story. Sewage standing in it usually means the blockage is past it, toward the County’s side; an empty one points at the pipe between it and your house.
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.
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Questions
Often not without a rider. Stafford County Utilities says the County pays for backup damage only when its own act or negligence caused it, which it calls rare, and that most homeowner policies leave sewer backups out unless one is added. It also warns that a $5,000 cap won’t cover a serious backup.
No. Stafford calls a sump pump piped into the sanitary sewer a prohibited connection. If the pump can’t keep the pit down in a hard rain, replace it; our sump pump replacement page has the price.
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 Fredericksburg 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.