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An AC tune-up in Alexandria is $99 per system, whether the condenser is up on a City rooftop or in a row behind Kingstowne townhouses.
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What it costs
One price per system, $99. We go through it before a Northern Virginia July finds the weak part for you. Anything it turns up is priced in writing before any work, and if it can wait, we say so.
AC tune-up, one system
$99
Furnace tune-up, one system
$99
Heat pump, boiler or ductless mini split tune-up, one system
$99
Comfort+ membership, a cooling maintenance visit every spring included
$199 a year
A house with two systems books two tune-ups, one for each, and a heat pump or a ductless mini split is the same $99 a system. The heating side, a furnace or a boiler, gets its own tune-up in the fall at the same price.
With Comfort+ membership at $199 a year, the cooling maintenance visit comes every spring, along with a heating maintenance visit, a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection and a dryer vent cleaning.
What’s different in Alexandria
A lot of the City of Alexandria was built before central air was. The median owner’s home there was built in 1970, and more than half the City’s homes are in condo and apartment buildings. In the older rowhouses and radiator houses, the air handler went wherever it fit, usually the attic or a top-floor closet, with the ducts squeezed into soffits. An attic unit sweats all summer above a bedroom ceiling, so its drain line, the pan underneath and the float switch that cuts the cooling before that pan overflows are where a City tune-up starts.
Plenty of City condensers sit on the roof, and the City’s zoning ordinance says anything up there has to be concealed by, or built from, the same kind of materials as the building’s walls. A screen built tight around a condenser can leave it breathing its own hot exhaust on the afternoons you need it most, so on a rooftop unit the tech checks the room around it as well as the coil. Tell us when you book how to get up there: a hatch, a ladder or the building’s key.
In Kingstowne, on the Fairfax County side, the median owner’s home went up in 1994, townhouses make up close to half its homes, and roughly 7 in 10 owners heat with gas. So the coil usually sits on a furnace in the basement or a utility closet, and the air conditioner rests on a pad behind the house, an arm’s length from the neighbor’s, packed with thirty-odd summers of clippings. Fort Hunt, Rose Hill and Hayfield run the same pairing in older single-family houses.
Franconia and Woodlawn are the exception. More than half the homeowners in each heat with electricity, which on these streets generally means a heat pump, and about half of Franconia’s homes are townhouses from the 1980s and 90s, so those heat pumps stand in the same rows. The spring visit is for cooling; come fall, the heating half earns a visit of its own.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what that usually means for the system we’d be tuning up.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What usually cools it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Alexandria | 1970 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Condo and apartment buildings: closet air handlers and fan coils, the drain line over a neighbor’s ceiling. |
| Rose Hill | 1969 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older houses on their third or fourth air conditioner, usually beside a gas furnace. |
| Franconia | 1986 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | Mostly electric heat: heat pumps, so the spring visit covers a system that runs all year. |
| Fort Hunt | 1963 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, about 8 in 10 | Older houses on their third or fourth air conditioner, usually beside a gas furnace. |
| Kingstowne | 1994 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Townhouse streets: condensers in a row out back, air handlers in a closet or the attic. |
| Woodlawn | 1976 | townhouses, about 4 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | Mostly electric heat: heat pumps, so the spring visit covers a system that runs all year. |
| Lincolnia | 1982 | single-family houses, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses, most on their second or third air conditioner. |
| Mount Vernon | 1967 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older houses on their third or fourth air conditioner, usually beside a gas furnace. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When to book it
In a City house whose air handler lives in the attic, that’s usually the coil’s water finding its way down: the drain clogs, the pan fills, and if the float switch is missing or stuck, the ceiling is next. Turn the AC off at the thermostat, then call us.
It cools all summer and heats all winter, so it piles up more hours in a year than an air conditioner that sits idle from October to May.
Central air in an older house was usually added later, often with a return too small for it. Checking the filter and the airflow in spring is how you keep the coil from icing up in July.
Choosing who tunes it up
Questions to ask anybody who books you, us included.
In the City, the condenser may be two floors up behind a screen. Ask whether the tech goes up to clean it. A tune-up that never leaves the top floor skipped half the system.
Ask what gets cleaned and what gets checked, and whether a second system costs extra. A number with no list behind it is hard to hold anybody to.
Ask for the findings in writing, with a price on anything that needs fixing and an honest word on what can wait. A tune-up you never see written down is one you take on faith.
An air conditioner doesn’t use up refrigerant. Low means it’s leaking somewhere, and a company that tops it up every spring is selling you the same refrigerant twice.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
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Hard to find service like this in Alexandria.
…we had swift and professional responses for multiple plumbing and HVAC needs in our Rosemont Alexandria condo
Great experience today with SwiftPro Cooling tech. After previous AC repair visit, recommended condenser coil cleaning for max ac efficiency. Finally scheduled. Same tech, same excellent experience. 100% recommend this independently owned shop.
Where we work
Next door to Alexandria: Arlington, Springfield, Falls Church, Annandale and Fort Belvoir.
Questions
April or May, before the cooling runs daily. For a rooftop condenser, sort out roof access first; condo buildings often want notice.
Yes. At that age it’s past the years most air conditioners run, and the written findings say whether this summer means a cleaning or pricing a replacement.
$99 per system, the same for a central air conditioner, a heat pump or a ductless mini split. A house with two systems books two. If the tune-up turns up a repair, you get its price in writing before any work, and you decide.
Once a year, in the spring, before the first heat wave. The heating side gets its own visit in the fall. The filter needs attention more often, every one to three months, and it’s the cheapest thing on the list.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. Anything the tune-up turns up gets priced in writing before anybody touches it, and if it can wait, you’ll hear that too.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
44679 Endicott Dr, Suite 211, Ashburn, VA 20147
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SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Alexandria 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.