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Leak detection in Stafford runs $200 to $500 and drain cleaning for one fixture $200 to $800, priced before the work, on County water or a well.
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5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews
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 Stafford
Stafford climbs from the water’s edge to the Piedmont: the USGS puts Aquia Harbour about 18 feet above sea level on Aquia Creek and the courthouse area near 183. The low ground floods. On December 18, 2023, high water closed more than a dozen roads between Stafford and Garrisonville, and the Weather Service’s gauge on Aquia Creek near Garrisonville puts flood stage at 15 feet, where the water nears a home off Hulvey Drive.
If a basement floor drain backs up, Stafford County Utilities wants the first call, and its crew checks the County’s main before anyone digs into yours. If the trouble is on your side, main sewer line cleaning runs $550 to $1,650, and a camera shows why it happened. If the sump pump ran nonstop and still lost ground, it’s too small or wearing out, and it’s time for a new one; our sump pump replacement page has the one price.
Freezes come often here, and late. The Fredericksburg weather station, about 10 miles south-southwest of the courthouse, records close to 101 nights a year at 32 or colder, and in half of all years the last one falls on April 6 or later. NOAA logged wind chills near 6 below at Stafford Regional Airport on New Year’s Day 2018. The pipes that split are the ones on outside walls, in crawlspaces and over garages, and the spigot left with a hose attached.
The County’s sewer crews publish what clogs their lines, and it’s what clogs yours first. Stafford County Utilities asks residents to pour cooking grease into a heat-proof container for the trash, or drop it at the Regional Landfill on Eskimo Hill Road. Grease cools in the pipe and catches whatever comes next, wipes most of all, and the County says never to flush those, even ones sold as flushable. A kitchen line packed with grease is a fixture drain cleaning, $200 to $800; a main full of wipes is $550 to $1,650.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for each place, and the pipe that usually goes with houses that age. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | The pipe you usually find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquia Harbour | 1984 | single-family houses, nearly all | electricity, nearly all | The polybutylene years: check the supply pipe; PVC drains. |
| Stafford Courthouse | 2005 | single-family houses, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Copper or PEX supply, PVC drains, original water heaters aging out. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIPs 22554 and 22556 as a whole: every Stafford address. The Census places in the table hold about one in seven of these homes.
What you’d notice
A pipe that froze overnight usually doesn’t leak until it thaws, so the water appears hours later. Close the main shut-off, open a faucet to drain the line, and call. Finding a leak inside a wall runs $200 to $500.
Polybutylene, often stamped PB, went into houses from about 1978 to 1995. It tends to let go at the fittings with no warning, so it’s worth knowing whether you have it.
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.
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.
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 Stafford: Fredericksburg, Quantico, Triangle, Dumfries and Midland.
Questions
Yes, with the house. Outside the County’s Urban Services Area, its comprehensive plan counts about 10,000 homes on a private well and septic tank, and we work on their water lines, drains, fixtures and water heaters the same as anyone’s. The well and the septic tank and drainfield go to the companies that do that work.
The County. Stafford County Utilities’ side of the line ends at the meter, and its outage page says to call its Field Operations office about water coming out of the meter barrel. Other signs of a main break it lists: low pressure, discolored water and gurgling in the pipes. A leak between the meter and the house is yours, and ours to repair.
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 Stafford 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.