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A new heat pump system in Springfield runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed. In Newington Forest about three in four 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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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 Springfield
Electric heat, which in houses like these usually means a heat pump, covers roughly 40 percent of Springfield’s owner homes, and it bunches at one end of town. Newington Forest is about three in four electric and Newington close to six in ten; their typical owner homes date from 1984 and 1981, and in both, half or more of the homes are townhouses. Springfield proper and West Springfield sit near a third. Kings Park, North Springfield and Ravensworth are about one in ten or fewer.
A 1984 Newington Forest townhouse is past its first heat pump and very likely its second. If the current one was set during the 2000s, before 2010, R-22 is probably what’s in it. The usual job there is like for like: the condenser on the pad out back and a matched air handler where the old one stands, often a closet on the lowest level or a tight attic, with electric strips inside as backup heat.
The gas streets are different. A Kings Park or North Springfield house with a sound gas furnace can take a heat pump in the air conditioner’s spot out back, heating through the mild months and handing the cold snaps to the furnace. Dominion supplies the electricity across most of Fairfax County, and our dual fuel guide figures the outdoor temperature at which the furnace should take over at Dominion’s rates.
West Springfield can have both on one row of townhouses: about a third of its owners heat with electricity and two thirds with gas, so the unit next door can be a heat pump while yours is an air conditioner over a furnace. Read your own label before pricing anything.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield | 1968 | 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. |
| West Springfield | 1972 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older gas houses, where a heat pump pairs with the furnace once the ducts are checked. |
| Newington | 1981 | townhouses, about 6 in 10 | electricity, about 6 in 10 | Electric heat leads, which here means heat pumps: often a like-for-like swap. |
| Newington Forest | 1984 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | Electric heat leads, which here means heat pumps: often a like-for-like swap. |
| North Springfield | 1957 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Older gas houses, where a heat pump pairs with the furnace once the ducts are checked. |
| Kings Park | 1966 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | gas, about 9 in 10 | Older gas houses, where a heat pump pairs with the furnace once the ducts are checked. |
| Ravensworth | 1964 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, nearly all | Older gas houses, where a heat pump pairs with the furnace once the ducts are checked. |
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 some 1980s Newington Forest townhouses the outdoor half has been replaced once or twice while the air handler inside never was. A mismatched pair can heat weakly and ice up more often, and the cure is the matched set, not another outdoor unit.
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.
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.
A new air handler’s electric heat may not draw what the old one did. Ask whether the quote covers the breaker and wire size for the strips, so your panel and the inspector agree with the new equipment.
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
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Moises and Oscar did a superlative job doing a custom installation of a new HVAC unit in a tight basement space. And they then took the time to go over system operation. Top tier job and service in all respects!
Where we work
Next door to Springfield: Burke, Annandale, Fairfax Station, Lorton and Alexandria.
Questions
Usually not. Washington Gas ties that rebate to taking out a central air conditioner and putting in a qualifying heat pump; trading an old heat pump for a new one doesn’t count. So it’s a live question in the gas houses of Kings Park, North Springfield and West Springfield, and rarely for an all-electric townhouse.
Heat pump air leaves the registers cooler than a gas furnace’s, and the system runs longer to make up for it. That’s normal. Rooms that never reach the setting, or backup heat that stays on through mild weather, are the signs to call, and a $99 diagnostic visit finds the cause.
$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 Springfield 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.