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A new heat pump system in Burke costs $8,499 to $21,650 installed. About half of Burke heats with electricity, more of it outside Burke Centre than in.
Price range
$8,499-$21,650
8yrs @ 7.99%
$120/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$91/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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One of our HVAC technicians with an electric heat strip kit, the backup heat inside a heat pump’s air handler.
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What it costs
The same price book as our heating page and the HVAC estimator, for a heat pump and air handler, 2 to 5 ton.
A heat pump system, outdoor unit and air handler, installed
$8,499 to $21,650
or $142/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A gas furnace and air conditioner together, installed
$8,898 to $23,000
or $148/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Diagnostic visit, when a repair may do
$99
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
Might it be a repair? The diagnostic visit is $99, and the tech prices the repair and the replacement side by side. Financing is available, subject to approval.
With Comfort+ membership at $199 a year, the diagnostic visit is included, and half of each repair bill is banked toward replacing that system, up to $1,500.
What’s different in Burke
The Census counts a heat pump as electric heat, and by that measure Burke is half heat pump country: just over half of its owner-occupied homes heat with electricity, which here mostly means a heat pump. Burke Centre has the higher share, about 7 in 10. But the Burke Census place around Lake Braddock has about two and a half times as many owner homes, so its roughly 4 in 10 adds up to more houses: about 5,200, against about 3,400 inside Burke Centre. A heat pump job in Burke is as likely to be a 1970s single-family house as a Burke Centre townhouse.
In a Burke Centre townhouse the outdoor unit sits on a pad behind the row, often a few steps from the neighbor’s, with the air handler and its electric strips in a closet or utility room. A like unit back on the same pad needs nothing from the Conservancy. A different spot, or a second unit, takes an approved application, and the Conservancy asks for the new unit’s dimensions, color and decibel rating with it.
Outside Burke Centre a little over half the owners burn gas, and in those houses a heat pump usually takes the old air conditioner’s spot on the pad, wired to the furnace inside. It carries the heating until the weather turns properly cold, then hands off to the gas; our dual fuel guide walks through how that works.
Burke Centre is also 65 clusters, and the Conservancy’s standards let a cluster add supplemental rules of its own. If a new heat pump won’t go back exactly where the old one stood, ask the Conservancy office about your cluster’s rules before you choose the unit, and in a condo building, about 1 in 8 of Burke Centre’s owner homes, ask the condo association too.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what that usually means for a heat pump.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What a heat pump job usually looks like |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burke | 1979 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Older gas houses, where a heat pump pairs with the furnace once the ducts are checked. |
| Burke Centre | 1982 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | Electric heat leads, which here means heat pumps: often a like-for-like swap. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise. A heat pump counts as electric heat.
When it’s time
Near Lake Braddock that’s the common heat pump decision. Instead of another air conditioner, a heat pump can take its place and share the heating with the furnace. Price both before the old condenser leaves the pad.
When the heat pump can’t keep up, the electric strips take over, and they cost far more to run. Aux heat on for hours is the sign.
It heats all winter and cools all summer, so it piles up hours an air conditioner never sees. Past 15 years, price the replacement beside any big repair.
Permits, locally
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who installs it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
In Burke Centre a moved or added unit’s application lists its decibel level, and on a townhouse row the neighbor’s window may be a few steps away. Ask for the rating of every unit you’re quoted, side by side.
Copying the old nameplate repeats whatever guess was made when the house was built. The wrong size runs worse in both seasons.
A heat pump system is the outdoor unit plus the air handler inside. Ask whether the quote covers both, matched, in writing.
Set wrong, the electric strips run on mild days. Ask who programs the thermostat and at what outdoor temperature the strips may come on.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
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Where we work
Next door to Burke: Fairfax Station, Springfield, Annandale, Fairfax and Clifton.
Questions
Check the thermostat and the equipment inside. A heat pump system usually has an Aux or Em Heat setting and an air handler where a furnace would be; a plain air conditioner sits beside a gas furnace. The label on the outdoor unit settles it, since a heat pump says so there.
A properly sized one is, with the electric strips in the air handler as backup on the coldest mornings. In a gas house the furnace is the backup instead.
$8,499 to $21,650 installed for a heat pump system, the outdoor unit and the air handler, 2 to 5 ton. A small single-stage system lands near the bottom, a big variable-speed one near the top. The HVAC estimator narrows it to your house.
A heat pump system runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed; a gas furnace and air conditioner together, $8,898 to $23,000. No gas line usually means a heat pump. With gas, you can keep the furnace and add one; our heat pump vs gas furnace guide runs the numbers.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. The price is in writing before the old unit comes out, and if a repair makes more sense, you’ll hear that 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
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Burke 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.