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A furnace tune-up in Arlington is $99 a system. About six in ten owners here heat with gas, often in a house far older than its furnace.
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What it costs
$99 for one furnace, anywhere we work. The tech checks the gas pressure, the temperature rise, the safeties and the sequence of operation, which is the order the furnace lights, heats and shuts down in. A repair it turns up gets a written price first, and you decide.
Furnace tune-up, one system
$99
Heat pump, boiler or ductless mini split tune-up, one system
$99
Comfort+ membership, a heating maintenance visit every fall included
$199 a year
It’s priced per system, so a house with a second furnace for the upstairs is two tune-ups. A heat pump, a boiler or a ductless mini split is the same $99 a system.
With Comfort+ membership, $199 a year or $20 a month covers four visits every year: a heating maintenance visit in the fall, a cooling maintenance visit in the spring, a dryer vent cleaning, and a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection. We book each one when it’s due.
What’s different in Arlington
Most of Arlington’s gas furnaces are in the houses, and a lot of the houses are old: a third of Arlington’s homes went up before 1960, and the historic districts in Penrose, Cherrydale and Lyon Park reach back to the 1880s and 1890s. A furnace in a house like that is a newcomer, set in a basement corner and connected to a chimney that was there long before it.
The Arlington County Fire Department’s home safety checklist asks whether your forced-air heater’s filter is changed every year and its venting cleaned. In a 1920s or 1930s house, the venting is the half of that question nobody looks at. The furnace has been swapped, the chimney hasn’t, and whatever joins the two was fitted by whoever did the last swap. A tune-up runs the furnace through its cycle and checks the safety controls that stop the flame if the flue backs up.
Over half of Arlington’s homes sit in buildings of ten or more units, and a gas furnace in a Rosslyn or Crystal City high-rise is rare: the heat there usually comes from electric strips, a heat pump, or a fan coil warmed by the building’s boiler. If yours is a heat pump or a ductless mini split, its tune-up costs what a gas furnace’s does: $99 a system.
Close to six in ten Arlington homes are rented, and Virginia’s landlord and tenant law puts the heat on the landlord: keep the heating in good and safe working order, and supply heat in season. So a renter’s first call about the furnace goes to the owner or the manager. For an owner, a fall tune-up while the tenant still has the windows open is the easy way to keep that promise.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When it’s worth doing
Plenty of older Arlington basements became rec rooms long after the furnace went in, and the furnace ended up in a closet built around it, with paneling or a drop ceiling close by. The Fire Department asks that furnaces sit away from combustible walls and ceilings, and a gas furnace needs air to burn. Show the tech that closet; they’ll tell you if it’s too tight.
The heat in your closet is usually yours to look after, not the association’s. Check your documents, then book it like any house.
That’s the night every furnace in town gets asked to work at once. A tune-up in the fall finds a weak part while you still get to choose when it’s fixed.
Safety and paperwork
The Arlington County Fire Department says to have a trained professional inspect, clean and tune up furnaces, flues and chimneys every year, and to fix any leaks. Source.
The same page names gas furnaces and water heaters among the appliances carbon monoxide can escape from, and asks for at least one CO alarm near where people sleep. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who tunes it up
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
On the third or fourth furnace in the same spot, the pipe to the chimney may be older than the furnace attached to it. Ask whether the tech checks that connection with the burners lit before calling the visit done.
Ask before anyone comes out. Gas pressure and temperature rise are readings on a meter, so a real tune-up has numbers in it, not just a look at the filter.
Some tune-ups end in a list. Ask which items are failing now, which can wait a season, and what each one costs, before you agree to any of it.
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.
Showed up on time, worked quietly, recommended other maintenance procedures for my HVAC system. Good overall experience.
Where we work
Next door to Arlington: Falls Church, Alexandria, Dunn Loring, Annandale and McLean.
Questions
Usually not. Heat pumps went in when Fairlington’s garden apartments and townhouses were converted to condos in the 1970s, so a unit there usually heats with a heat pump and backup electric strips. A heat pump’s fall tune-up is the same $99 a system as a gas furnace’s, so whichever yours turns out to be, the price doesn’t move.
$99 for one furnace, and the same for a heat pump, a boiler or a ductless mini split. If it turns up a repair, you get the price in writing before any work, and you decide.
No. The furnace tune-up is its own visit at $99. The Heating Check and the Clean Heat deep clean, the one that takes the blower wheel out and cleans it, are separate offers with their own terms on our Clean Heat page.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. One furnace is $99, and anything it needs gets a written price before any work.
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 Arlington 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.