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Replacing a heat pump in Amissville, 20106, runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed. Electric heat warms a bit over a third of owner homes here.
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 Amissville
Census table B25117 sorts heat pumps under electricity, so ZIP 20106’s electric share is the nearest measure of its heat pump houses: a bit over a third of owner homes. Propane heats more, about four in ten, and that is the other side of the story here. A house with only a heat pump lives or dies by it. A house with propane behind it has a furnace to take the coldest nights while the heat pump handles the mild days.
This climate tests a heat pump. The Boston station’s January low averages 22.9 degrees, it logs about 120 nights a year at or below freezing, and the record goes lower: 3 degrees at Sperryville on January 27, 30 and 31 of 2026, and 4 on Christmas Eve of 2022. On nights like that the electric strips in the air handler carry the house, and they need the right breaker and wire behind them.
The median owner home in the ZIP is a 1993 build, and about three in ten date from 2000 or later, so a heat pump that came with its house is long gone or well into its twenties. Repair or replace? Start with the diagnostic at $99; the tech quotes the repair and the replacement range together.
If propane backs up your heat pump and the furnace is sound, the furnace can stay while a new heat pump goes in. When both are about the same age, ask for both quotes. The heat pump route comes to $8,499 to $21,650 installed, and the furnace-and-AC route to $8,898 to $23,000. About one home in six in the ZIP is a rental, and there the replacement is the landlord’s decision.
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.
ZIP 20106 as a whole: about half its homes are in Culpeper County, about four in ten in Rappahannock County, where the village is, and a few in Fauquier County.
When it’s time
A film of frost that melts during a defrost cycle is normal; a unit that stays wrapped in ice isn’t, and it points at the defrost controls, a sensor or low refrigerant. With about 120 nights a year at freezing or below here, ice is part of winter, so what matters is whether it clears.
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.
Most heat pumps installed before 2010 hold R-22, which hasn’t been made since 2020. A leak on one is usually where recharging stops making sense.
Permits, locally
Fauquier County counts swapping an electric appliance for a similar one in the same spot as an ordinary repair that needs no permit. Moving an appliance to a new spot takes one. Source.
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.
Where the heat pump carries the house through nights like Sperryville’s 3 degrees in January 2026, the strips are the safety net. Ask for the strip kit’s size in the quote, and for the amperage of the breaker that feeds it.
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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Questions
That depends on which county the house is in. Fauquier County treats an electric appliance replaced with a like one in the same place as ordinary repair work and wants a permit only when it moves. Rappahannock County’s Building Office sits at 311 North Gay Street in Washington, and Culpeper County’s Building Department at 302 North Main Street in Culpeper; ask the one that covers your address.
Neither wins everywhere. Propane leads ZIP 20106’s heating and electricity is next, so both are ordinary here. The deciding facts are in your house: how old the furnace is, what the ducts and the electrical panel can carry, and how cold you let it get. The quiz on the heating page prices each route for your address.
$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 Amissville 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.