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A new Midland water heater is $2,757 to $5,493 installed for an electric tank, $3,379 to $5,485 for propane. Permit and haul-away included.
Price range
$2,757-$5,493
8yrs @ 7.99%
$39/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$30/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 plumbers wheeling a new water heater up a Northern Virginia walkway, the van at the curb.
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 plumbers, our own trucksNobody here is a subcontractor with a magnet on the door
The price is settled before the workYou see the number in writing before anything is taken apart
What it costs
Installed, from our water heater estimator, which is the price book. Everything is in the number: the permit and the inspection, the expansion tank, the drain pan, hauling the old one away, and the labor.
Electric tank, installed
$2,757 to $5,493
or $46/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Gas or propane tank, installed
$3,379 to $5,485
or $56/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Power vent tank, installed
$5,957 to $7,494
or $99/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Tankless, installed
$8,886 to $10,486
or $148/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
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
How the house vents picks the row; where you land inside it is the tank size and the warranty. A hybrid heat pump water heater is quoted at the visit, never from a page.
Keeping the one you have? A yearly water heater flush slows the sediment down: $99 right now, normally $199. A tankless descale is $300, regularly $350. Or get the flush every year with Comfort+ membership, $199 a year, along with a dryer vent cleaning, a sewer camera inspection and heating and cooling maintenance visits.
What’s different in Midland
Utility gas heats about 1 percent of owner homes in ZIP 22728, so a Midland water heater almost always burns propane or runs on electricity. Electricity heats 58 percent of owner homes and propane 33 percent, and the water heater usually follows the heat. An electric tank is the simpler swap. A propane tank heater, often fed from the same yard tank as the furnace, prices on the gas row: $3,379 to $5,485 installed.
Wind is what usually takes Midland’s power. The Warrenton-Fauquier Airport’s weather station, inside the Midland service district, measured a 74 mph gust on August 13, 2021, as trees several feet thick came up near Midland Road and Airport Road, and two weeks later a large tree fell onto the wires on Rogues Road. When the lines come down, the well pump quits and so does an electric tank’s element. A plain atmospheric propane heater with a pilot keeps the tankful hot; a power-vent or tankless propane unit needs electricity for its blower and controls and sits idle until the power returns.
Water is the other storm risk. Marsh Run and Licking Run carry floodplains on opposite sides of the village, and the August 10, 2022 flash flood closed Route 610 in Midland. Underneath it all, the USGS county map puts the Culpeper Basin’s groundwater close to the surface, so cellars and crawl spaces here can stay damp long after the rain. A heater standing on a wet floor corrodes from the base up, which is why every replacement in our price book sits in a drain pan.
Cold finishes the list. Fauquier County’s building design criteria use a 17 degree winter and a 24 inch frost depth, and real nights go lower: the Warrenton 3 SE station read 3 degrees on January 7, 2014, and the late January 2026 Arctic outbreak brought Extreme Cold Warnings with wind chills of 0 to 10 below across the Piedmont. In a village I-house the heater may sit in a cellar, a crawl space or a back addition that was never heated, where the cold supply line and the drain valve freeze first.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIP 22728 as a whole: every Midland address, the village included. The Census place for the village alone has too few homes for steady figures.
What you’d notice
On a well, a check valve at the pump usually stops heated water from pushing back down the line, so as the tank heats, pressure climbs until the relief valve lets some out. An expansion tank gives that water room, and every replacement we price includes one.
An electric tank has two elements. When one fails the water still warms, just never all the way; it’s a common, fixable part.
A drip from a valve can be fixed. Water from the tank itself can’t; once the lining goes, the only fix is a new heater, and sooner beats later.
If the basement took water
A water heater usually sits on the lowest floor of the house, so it’s one of the first things standing water reaches. Three checks, then call us.
Leave it off and don’t relight it. The warning label on a gas water heater says not to use it if any part has been under water, and to have a service technician replace the gas control.
Shut its breaker off at the panel, but only from somewhere dry. The elements and the thermostats get checked before it heats again.
Mop it up and look again in an hour. Water that comes back with no rain is the tank or a valve, not the storm.
Call us after a storm and we’ll check it: the gas control or the elements, the burner, the venting and the drain pan. If it has to be replaced, you get the price in writing before anything comes out.
Permits and pressure
A burst tank doesn’t wait on paperwork: under Virginia’s building code the replacement can start first, as long as the permit application reaches Fauquier County’s Building office by the end of the next working day. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who installs it
Questions worth asking anybody who quotes you, us included.
If a generator backs up your Midland house, or you’re thinking about one, say so before choosing a heater. An electric tank and a fan-driven propane heater draw on it very differently, and the choice should fit what you’ll actually have running when the lines are down.
A gas water heater always needs a permit, an electric one often does, and skipping it tends to surface when the house sells. Ask whether the quote includes it and the inspection.
Most houses here have a check valve or a pressure reducer on the incoming line, so the heated water has nowhere to go. An expansion tank gives it somewhere, and leaving it out is how quotes come in low.
A thermocouple, an element or a valve is a repair, not a new heater. A good plumber says so, and saves the replacement talk for a leaking tank.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
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Questions
It can. Going from electric to propane means a gas line from the tank, a flue or a power vent, and a Fauquier County permit, so we price both rows, $2,757 to $5,493 and $3,379 to $5,485, and let you weigh them. A power-vent model is $5,957 to $7,494. The propane company handles the tank itself.
Not for a like-for-like swap. Fauquier County counts an electric heater replaced by a similar one in the same spot as an ordinary repair. Moving it, or switching to propane, makes it permit work, since the County wants a permit for any fuel-fired appliance. Either way, the price on our book already counts the permit when there is one.
Installed, with the permit, the expansion tank, the pan and the haul-away: an electric tank $2,757 to $5,493, a gas or propane tank on the flue you have $3,379 to $5,485, a power vent tank $5,957 to $7,494, and a tankless unit $8,886 to $10,486. The estimator gives your exact number in about a minute.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. The age on the label and what it’s doing tell us most of what we need, and you get the price before anything comes out.
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 Midland 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.