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Falls Church boilers are a regular call for us: $99 for a tune-up, $9,900 to $16,500 for a new one, installed.
Price range
$9,900-$16,500
8yrs @ 7.99%
$140/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$106/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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Two of our heating technicians in a Northern Virginia basement. The same team tunes up, repairs and replaces boilers.
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 HVAC installersA dedicated heating and cooling team, separate from our plumbers
Price in writing firstYou see every option priced before anything is ordered
What it costs
A new boiler runs $9,900 to $16,500 installed, the range of our own boiler replacements; a condensing or combi boiler lands at $12,782 to $16,500. A tune-up is $99 a system.
High-efficiency condensing boiler or combi boiler, installed
$12,782 to $16,500
or $213/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Cast iron boiler on the chimney, replaced like for like, installed
$9,900 to $13,690
or $165/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Boiler tune-up, one system
$99
Boiler repair diagnostic visit
$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
A repair starts with the $99 diagnostic. If the fix is a circulator pump, a valve or an expansion tank, you get that price in writing before we start, and you decide.
Want a closer number before anyone comes out? The boiler estimator asks a few questions about yours and shows the range for that job.
What’s different in Falls Church
Falls Church is one of the two places, with McLean, where boilers are a regular part of our heating work. The housing explains it. In the City of Falls Church the typical owner home dates from 1964 and about one in three predates 1960; on the Fairfax County side, in the Idylwood count, the typical one is from 1975, with about three in ten older than 1960. Those are the decades a hot water boiler with radiators or baseboard was still a common way to heat a new house.
A Falls Church mailing address reaches far past the City limits: Merrifield, Seven Corners and Bailey’s Crossroads are Fairfax County. Inside the City, the permit counter is at City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, and any work on a natural gas appliance takes a gas permit, removing one included. On the County side, a gas boiler replacement needs a Fairfax County permit even like for like, plus a chimney vent certification.
Condos are a big share here, about four in ten owner homes on the County side and close to half in the City. A condo boiler can belong to the building rather than the unit, so check with the association before calling anyone. When it’s yours, it’s usually a closet unit, and a wall-hung Navien combi at $12,782 to $16,500 installed can replace the boiler and the water heater in one box.
Gas heats about seven in ten owner homes in the City and about six in ten on the County side, so a Falls Church boiler is most likely on natural gas. One from the 1960s usually vents up a masonry chimney, and the choice at replacement is whether to keep that chimney with a new cast iron boiler or move to a condensing boiler that vents through a side wall in plastic pipe. City residents can also book a home safety check from the Arlington County Fire Department.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what a boiler call there usually meets.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What a boiler call usually meets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Falls Church | 1957 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older houses, where cast iron boilers and radiators still turn up. |
| Bailey’s Crossroads | 1980 | condo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 | electricity, about 5 in 10 | Condo buildings: mostly electric heat; a central boiler belongs to the building. |
| Idylwood | 1975 | condo and apartment buildings, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | Condo buildings: a central boiler is usually the association’s. |
| City of Falls Church | 1964 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Condo buildings: a central boiler is usually the association’s. |
| Lake Barcroft | 1958 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | Older houses, where cast iron boilers and radiators still turn up. |
| Seven Corners | 1972 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Condo buildings: a central boiler is usually the association’s. |
| Pimmit Hills | 1961 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Older houses, where cast iron boilers and radiators still turn up. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
ZIP 22046, plus a few City addresses in 22042 and 22044.
22041 to 22044: West Falls Church, Idylwood, Lake Barcroft, Seven Corners and Bailey’s Crossroads.
What it’s telling you
A boiler that needs topping up every week is losing water somewhere: a weeping valve, a fitting on an old radiator, or the relief valve letting go. The fresh water that replaces it carries oxygen into the loop, and oxygen rusts cast iron from the inside, so a slow leak is worth finding in October rather than living with.
A new Weil-McLain gas boiler installed by SwiftPro in a Northern Virginia basement, with copper near-boiler piping and a bank of Taco zone valves feeding the heating loops.
Safety and paperwork
The City of Falls Church wants a gas permit for any work on a natural gas appliance, taking one out included, so a gas water heater swap is permit work even like for like. Rewiring for an electric one takes an electrical permit. Source.
In a single-family house in the City of Falls Church, an air conditioner or heat pump can be replaced without a permit. Source.
The Arlington County Fire Department, which offers home safety checks to City of Falls Church residents, asks on its home checklist whether a forced-air furnace’s filter is changed yearly and its venting cleaned, and whether the furnace sits clear of combustible walls and ceilings. Source.
Fairfax County requires a permit to replace any gas appliance, even like for like: a gas water heater, furnace or boiler. Replacing a fuel-burning appliance also needs a chimney vent certification. Source.
Fairfax County lists replacing a heating or cooling system as mechanical permit work. Source.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue names a faulty gas furnace or water heater as a carbon monoxide source, says to have gas appliances inspected every fall, and to put a CO alarm on every floor. Source.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue says to have the heating system cleaned and checked by a professional every year, and to keep anything that burns at least three feet from the furnace and the water heater. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who works on it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
A quote for a Falls Church boiler that never asks which side of the City line you’re on is guessing at the permit, and the City and the County each want their own.
A hot water boiler is half heating system (the burner, gas valve, flue and controls) and half plumbing (the water loop, circulator pumps, expansion tank, relief valve and zone valves). We hold a Virginia Class A license and run separate heating and plumbing teams, so each half gets a tech who does that trade every day.
A new boiler can stay on the chimney or vent out the wall in plastic pipe. A good quote says which, and whether the chimney needs a liner, because that’s where two quotes for the same boiler usually split.
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.
…excellent service when my boiler needed to be replaced during the polar vortex. Alex Hittle came quickly, … and replaced my boiler quickly. Alex even managed to change their schedule, with the kind permission of their other customer so that I could have heat again in the freezing weather.
Where we work
Next door to Falls Church: Dunn Loring, Arlington, Annandale, McLean and Vienna.
Questions
Yes. Pimmit Hills, where half the owner homes were up by 1961, and Lake Barcroft are among the older Falls Church neighborhoods, the kind where a gas boiler is likeliest. Fixing one begins with the $99 diagnostic.
With ducts already in for the air conditioning, a heat pump is a real option, and we’ll price it beside a new boiler. Without ducts, keeping the radiators and replacing the boiler is usually the simpler job.
No. We work on hot water boilers, the kind that heat radiators or baseboard, on natural gas or propane. If yours is steam or burns oil, we’ll tell you on the phone, and a switch to a heat pump or a gas or propane boiler is ours to price.
Ready when you are
Call any time: we run 24/7 emergency service. Or send the form at the top. A tune-up is $99, a repair starts with the $99 diagnostic, and a new boiler 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 Falls Church 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.