Sump Pump Repair in Virginia
Sump Pump Repair across Virginia: the 624 ZIP codes and 350 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.
Free to homeowners in Virginia — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.
When it matters
Our sump pump repair coverage in Virginia runs to 624 ZIP codes in 350 cities. Large municipalities carry storm water in a built system, and a basement pump in one of them is usually fighting ground water and the capacity of that system at the same time — which is why failures arrive in clusters, on the same night.
Source: coverage area as published by our call partner; place and county names from the US Census Bureau.
We route sump pump repair calls in 624 ZIP codes across 350 Virginia cities, in 79 counties.
What this site is
Pit and Pump is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands, and a discharge connection is usually a permitted alteration — ask to see the permit. We carry out no work, we sell no equipment, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.Checking a credential in Virginia
Virginia licenses are issued by the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
19 of the 67 Virginia counties we cover, a cross-section, largest to smallest
- Charlottesville City County 6 ZIP codes
Charlottesville - Danville City County 3 ZIP codes
Danville - Emporia City County 1 ZIP code
Emporia - Fairfax County 64 ZIP codes
Fairfax, Springfield, Falls Church, McLean, Reston, Herndon, Vienna, Centreville, Chantilly, Burke, Lorton, Annandale and 7 more - Greensville County 2 ZIP codes
Jarratt, Skippers - Halifax County 5 ZIP codes
Alton, Halifax, South Boston, Sutherlin, Vernon Hill - Loudoun County 26 ZIP codes
Sterling, Ashburn, Leesburg, Hamilton, Middleburg, Round Hill, Upperville, Aldie, Lovettsville, Paeonian Springs, Purcellville, Waterford - Montgomery County 10 ZIP codes
Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Elliston, Pilot, Riner, Shawsville - New Kent County 1 ZIP code
Quinton - Newport News City County 11 ZIP codes
Newport News, Fort Eustis - Patrick County 7 ZIP codes
Ararat, Claudville, Critz, Meadows of Dan, Patrick Springs, Stuart, Woolwine - Petersburg City County 4 ZIP codes
Petersburg, Virginia State University - Pittsylvania County 13 ZIP codes
Blairs, Callands, Cascade, Chatham, Dry Fork, Gretna, Hurt, Java, Keeling, Long Island, Pittsville, Ringgold and 1 more - Shenandoah County 9 ZIP codes
Strasburg, Edinburg, Fort Valley, Maurertown, Mount Jackson, New Market, Toms Brook, Woodstock - Stafford County 3 ZIP codes
Stafford - Suffolk city County 8 ZIP codes
Suffolk - Sussex County 2 ZIP codes
Wakefield, Waverly - Virginia Beach City County 20 ZIP codes
Virginia Beach - York County 5 ZIP codes
Yorktown, Seaford
48 more Virginia counties are inside the coverage area and are not listed here. If your ZIP code is in Virginia, the call reaches a contractor.
What that coverage looks like
Of the 624 ZIP codes we cover in Virginia, 85 are in Fairfax County and 27 in Arlington. Storms do not respect that distribution: a single night's rain across 79 counties produces far more pump calls than any contractor can answer at once, which is the argument for testing yours in the dry.
How a sump pump repair job goes
A sump pump is tested by filling the pit, not by listening to it. The float has to lift, the pump has to start, the check valve has to hold and the discharge has to run clear of the house. Any of those four can fail silently and none of them announces itself until the night the pump is needed.
What the call asks about sump pump repair
- Whether the pump runs at all when the float is lifted by hand.
- Where the discharge goes, and whether it is frozen, blocked or running back into the pit.
- Whether there is a battery backup, and when it was last tested.
Every Virginia city we route in
49 cities, ordered by the share of housing built before 1970. Basements, and the groundwater under them, are a function of when and how the housing was built. Each page carries that city’s own numbers and the ZIP codes we route there.
- Richmond 58%
- Norfolk 57%
- Annandale 57%
- Portsmouth 56%
- Pulaski 56%
- Danville 52%
- Martinsville 52%
- South Boston 50%
- Falls Church 48%
- Chatham 48%
- Franklin 47%
- Bristol 46%
- Luray 46%
- Arlington 45%
- Bassett 44%
- Hampton 44%
- Petersburg 43%
- Alexandria 41%
- Emporia 41%
- Berryville 41%
- Ridgeway 39%
- Sandston 38%
- Gretna 37%
- Radford 37%
- Springfield 36%
- Woodstock 35%
- Newport News 35%
- Poquoson 34%
- Stuart 34%
- Henrico 32%
- Strasburg 31%
- Charlottesville 30%
- Winchester 29%
- McLean 28%
- Rocky Mount 28%
- Front Royal 27%
- Dublin 27%
- Hayes 27%
- Vienna 26%
- Floyd 25%
- Ashland 24%
- Amelia Court House 23%
- Christiansburg 23%
- Suffolk 22%
- Triangle 22%
- Fairfax 21%
- Smithfield 20%
- Virginia Beach 20%
- Warrenton 20%
Before you call
A pump is tested by pouring water into the pit, not by listening for it. The pages above say what to check and how often.
