Sterling, September 2026
A pump over 26 years old that wouldn’t come up: the threads on the pitless adapter were gone. New pitless adapter, new 3/4 HP pump, new pipe and wire.
Pumps, pressure tanks and switches
Well Pump Repair & Replacement in Northern Virginia
A new well pump on your existing pipe and wire is $2,781 to $4,000 installed, and a pressure tank is $2,200 to $2,950. Our plumbers test the pump, the wire and the tank first, so you replace only what failed, priced in writing before anything comes out of the well.
From about $46 a month at 0% APR for 60 months, the whole price financed, on approved credit. How financing works
No water? Tell us what the house is doing and what the gauge on the tank reads.
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- Pump, wire and tank tested first
- Our own licensed plumbers
- The price in writing before we pull it
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews
Two of our plumbers in a Northern Virginia mechanical room, where the well’s pressure tank usually lives.
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’s doing
What your well is telling you, and what usually failed
Six things people call us about, what each one usually turns out to be, and what to do until a plumber gets there.
| What the house is doing | What it usually is | Until we get there |
|---|---|---|
| No water at any faucet | The pump, its wire, the pressure switch or a tripped breaker | Check the well pump’s breaker in the panel. If it tripped once, you can reset it once. If it trips again, leave it off and call. |
| The pump clicks on and off every few seconds | A waterlogged pressure tank, the most common thing we find | Call soon. Every one of those starts wears the pump, and a pump that short cycles for months burns out early. |
| Pressure drops off in the shower, then comes back | A pressure switch, a tank losing its air charge, or a pump wearing out | Note what the gauge on the tank tee reads when it drops, and tell us when you call. |
| The breaker keeps tripping | A pump motor or wire going bad down the well | Leave it off. Resetting it over and over can finish off a motor that might have been worth testing. |
| Air spitting from the faucets, or sandy, cloudy water | A pump set too close to the bottom, a cracked drop pipe or a well running low | Run the cold water at one tap. If it clears, it can wait for a weekday visit. |
| No water after a storm or a power outage | Usually the pump is fine and just needs power back. Sometimes a surge takes out the switch or the control box | If the power is back and the water isn’t, check the breaker, then call. |
Start at the tank
The pressure tank is the part that kills pumps
Most well calls start in the basement, not down the well.
A pressure tank is waterlogged when it’s full of water and has lost the air that cushions the pump, and a waterlogged tank is often cheapest to replace rather than fix. A one to five horsepower pump shouldn’t start more than about six times an hour, and a waterlogged tank can make it start every few seconds. When the tank’s air cushion is gone, the pump starts every time anyone opens a faucet, and starts are what wear a pump out. That’s why a pump that’s clicking on and off every few seconds is worth a call this week, not next month. Source: what the tank makers say.
A tank alone is $2,200 to $2,950. A pump is $2,781 to $4,000. Catching the tank first is the cheaper of the two calls.
New copper piping, shutoff valves and a whole-house filter we installed and tagged in a Northern Virginia basement.
What it costs
What well pump repair and replacement cost with us
Our own prices, the span of what we’ve quoted and sold this year, not a national average. Depth, wire and what’s worn out move a job inside its span, and you see your number before anything comes out of the well.
Pressure switch replacement
$450 to $609
A new pressure switch at the tank, set to your system’s cut-in and cut-out pressures, and the system run through full cycles before we leave.
Pressure tank replacement
$2,200 to $2,950
or $37/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A new well pressure tank sized to the pump, a new tank tee with gauge and relief valve, the air charge set to the switch, and the old tank hauled away.
Well pump replacement
$2,781 to $4,000
or $46/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A new submersible pump on your existing drop pipe and wire: the old pump pulled, the new one set at the right depth, wired and tested for pressure and amp draw.
Well pump, new wire and drop pipe
$4,900 to $6,500
or $82/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
The pump plus new wire and drop pipe all the way down, for a well where the old wire failed its test or the pipe is worn through.
Well pump, pressure tank and switch
$6,200 to $8,000
or $103/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
The whole system at once: pump, pressure tank, tank tee and switch, matched to each other. The usual call when the pump and tank went in together 20 years ago.
Deep well or full system rebuild
$9,500 to $16,500
or $158/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Wells past about 600 feet, a new pitless adapter or trench, or a system rebuilt from the control box down. Priced at the well, in writing.
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
Every well visit
- The $49 plumbing visit, waived when you go ahead with the repair
- Testing the pump’s amp draw, the wire and the tank’s air charge
- The price in writing before we pull the pump
Priced separately
- Drilling or deepening a well (we’ll tell you who to call)
- Pulling and reinstalling a pump just to inspect it, $1,300 to $2,000
- Water treatment, if the test calls for it
Want your own number before anyone comes out? The well pump estimator prices it in a few questions.
How the visit goes
From the call to water at the faucet, in four steps
Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
- 1
Tell us what the house is doing
No water, low pressure, a pump that won’t stop clicking. What the gauge reads and how deep the well is, if you know, helps.
- 2
The $49 visit
The plumber tests the tank, the switch and the pump’s amp draw and wire from the house, before anything comes out of the well.
- 3
The price, in writing
The part that failed and what it costs. You approve it or you don’t.
- 4
Fixed, and run through
Water back on, the system run through full cycles and the pressure set. Virginia Cooperative Extension recommends shock chlorinating the well after any repair to it, then retesting for bacteria one to two weeks later. Virginia Cooperative Extension.
From our trucks this year
Well pump jobs our plumbers did in Northern Virginia
From the technicians’ own notes, with the town and the month.
Manassas, February 2026
A pump 580 feet down, and its wire failed the test. We pulled it and ran about 590 feet of new wire with the new pump.
Leesburg, August 2026
Pump, pressure tank and switch all original and tired. The whole system replaced at once, financed, with a seven year parts warranty.
Vienna, October 2026
A 14 year old pressure tank and a waterlogged gauge on the tank tee, found on a routine membership visit before it took the pump with it.
Gainesville, October 2026
A pressure tank 20 years old with a small leak at the union. Caught early, it’s a tank, not a pump.
Culpeper, August 2026
A 740 foot well. The new pump went in at 660 feet, deep enough to reach the water and well off the bottom.
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews
What a well customer said about our plumber
…Tyson came out to diagnose our well system and did so with ease! Within no time he had it figured out and provided a solution for us. Very reasonable pricing, phenomenal quality of work and knowledge can’t be beat!…
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After the pump
Test the water after any well work
Opening a well can stir things up, and a well’s water is yours to look after, not the county’s.
A private well isn’t regulated by the EPA or tested by any utility, so the testing is up to you. Virginia Tech’s household water program runs drinking water clinics around the state, and in 2021, 41 percent of the people who brought a sample had never tested their well water before. Source: the Virginia Household Water Quality Program.
If a test turns something up, we install whole-house filters and treatment too. Whole-house filter or softener: which one you need.
The SwiftPro plumbing team in front of three of our wrapped vans.
Where our plumbers work on wells
Well pump repair, town by town
Pick your town for what’s different about wells there: how deep they run, who looks after them, and the well work we’ve done nearby. Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
Fairfax County
Arlington County
Loudoun County
Prince William County
Fauquier County
Stafford County
Asked on the phone
Well pump questions, answered straight
How much does it cost to replace a well pump in Northern Virginia?
A new submersible pump on your existing pipe and wire is $2,781 to $4,000 installed with us. New wire and drop pipe with it runs $4,900 to $6,500, and the pump, pressure tank and switch together run $6,200 to $8,000. Those are the spans of what we’ve actually quoted and sold this year, and you get your number in writing before we pull anything.
How much is a well pressure tank replacement?
$2,200 to $2,950 installed, with a new tank tee, gauge and relief valve, the air charge set to your switch, and the old tank hauled away. The spread is the size of the tank.
How do I know if it’s the pump or the pressure tank?
A pump that clicks on and off every few seconds is almost always the tank: it lost its air, so it has no cushion left. No water at all, or a breaker that keeps tripping, points down the well. We test both, the tank’s air charge and the pump’s amp draw, before we price anything.
What wears out a well pump?
Starts wear a pump out more than years do. Franklin Electric rates its smaller single-phase submersible motors, up to 3/4 HP, for no more than 300 starts a day and the 1 to 5.5 HP ones for 100, because too much cycling damages the motor’s spline and bearings and overheats it. A pump that runs long, steady cycles off a healthy pressure tank outlasts one that starts every time a faucet opens.
Do I need a permit to replace a well pump in Virginia?
Not from the state for the pump itself. Under Virginia’s private well regulations, replacing a well pump, or a well cap or seal with an equivalent one, isn’t a well alteration, so it needs no Virginia Department of Health well permit. Building, deepening, altering or abandoning a well does, and that’s work for a well driller.
Can you fix a well pump the same day?
Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there. Most pump and tank swaps are done in one visit, and five of our last seven well jobs were sold and scheduled the same day or the next.
Do you drill wells?
No. Drilling a new well takes a drilling rig, and we’ll tell you who to call if that’s what your well needs. Everything from the pump down the well to the faucets in the house is ours: the pump, wire, drop pipe, pitless adapter, pressure tank, switch and the water line to the house.
Do you work on well pumps outside Fairfax and Loudoun?
Yes. This year our plumbers did well work from Great Falls and Leesburg to Manassas, Stafford, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania, and several of them live down that way.
No water, or a pump that won’t stop clicking
Get your well pump price in writing
Send the form at the top and the office calls or texts you back to set a time. No water at all? Call, and say so first.
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
