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Heat pump replacement in Reston runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed. Around Hunters Woods and South Lakes, about six in ten owners heat with electricity.
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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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 Reston
The Census counts a heat pump as electric heat, and a bit over four in ten Reston owners heat with electricity. In 20191, the ZIP around Hunters Woods and South Lakes, it’s about six in ten, in a part of Reston where nearly half the homes went up in the 1970s and about a third are townhouses. In 20190 the figure falls to about three in ten, and in 20194 to about one in three.
A heat pump works every month of the year, so the one behind a 1970s cluster home has likely been replaced more than once. Its air handler, with the backup heat strips, sits in a closet, the attic or the basement, and getting the old one out of an attic or a tight closet is often the hard part.
Outside, Reston Association has its say. Its cluster guideline puts outdoor units against the house wall as a rule, and a screen RA asked for is meant to hide the unit without blocking service. A heat pump also drains meltwater each time it defrosts, and against a cluster wall that water can freeze on a shared walk, so we look at where it will run before the new unit is set.
In the gas homes of 20190 and 20194, a new heat pump can stand on the old condenser’s pad, carry the mild days and call on the gas furnace only when it’s bitter out, the pairing our dual fuel guide explains. In 20190’s condo buildings a heat pump is often the unit’s only heat, and the association decides where a new outdoor half goes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reston | 1981 | condo and apartment buildings, about 4 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | 1980s and 90s gas houses, most on a second air conditioner, the part a heat pump would replace. |
| Great Falls Crossing | 1993 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | 1980s and 90s gas houses, most on a second air conditioner, the part a heat pump would replace. |
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
In an all-electric Reston townhouse the backup strips draw more current than anything else in the house. A breaker that trips on cold mornings usually points at a strip, its relay or the wiring, which makes it a $99 diagnostic visit first. Replacement comes up only if the outdoor unit is worn out too.
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.
A heat pump can go where the air conditioner sat, heat on mild days and leave the cold nights to the furnace. That’s dual fuel.
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.
A heat pump moves more air at a lower temperature than a furnace, and some older returns were sized on the tight side. Ask whether they checked the return and the filter size before choosing the new system’s capacity.
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 Reston: Herndon, Great Falls, Oakton, Vienna and Sterling.
Questions
For central heat, practically yes. The other all-electric choice is the strips in the air handler on their own, an electric furnace. A gas furnace works only where gas service reaches your street, and its new vent would likely need RA’s approval as an exterior change.
It can, but the approved spot is the easy path. At a single-family house, a new location skips RA’s application only at the rear or side, hidden from other properties, at least 50 feet from neighboring buildings and 20 feet from the lot line. A cluster or condo may use another spot that meets its own standards; anything else needs an application.
$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 Reston 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.