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Orlean heating repair begins with a $99 diagnostic visit, whether the house runs on a heat pump or on propane brought in by truck.
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Two of our technicians in a Northern Virginia utility room, between the furnace and the water heater.
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
The same price book as the rest of our site. The diagnostic visit is $99, and the tech prices the repair before starting it.
Flame sensor cleaned
$95 to $180
Igniter or flame sensor replaced
$240 to $410
Blower wheel pulled and cleaned
$300 to $440
Thermostat replaced
$300 to $640
Control board
$550 to $1,180
Blower motor
$670 to $2,400
Repair diagnostic visit
$99
Often same-day, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
With Comfort+ membership, $20 a month or $199 a year, the diagnostic visit is included, any service is 15% off, and a heating maintenance visit comes every fall.
What’s different in Orlean
Thirty years of NOAA averages from a co-op station just southeast of Warrenton, 12 miles off, give January a mean low near 25. Close to a hundred nights a year dip to freezing or below, about five reach 10 or below, and roughly 13 days stay at or below 32 from morning to night. The County’s code has installers size heat for a 17 degree outdoor day. The village itself sits near 610 feet, three miles south-southwest of Thumb Run Mountain’s summit.
Most of that cold falls on a heat pump. The Census counts Orlean in Marshall’s ZIP, 20115, and there 64 percent of owners heat electrically; in farm country that usually means a heat pump, backed by resistance strips for the bitter nights. Below 17 the strips are supposed to help. If they’re carrying the house on a 40 degree afternoon, or the outdoor coil is caked white and never clears, something in the defrost or the controls has failed.
About one owner in five there burns propane from a yard tank, and a propane furnace is still electric at heart: no power, no igniter, no inducer fan, no blower. The nor’easter of March 2, 2018 left trees and wires down across northern Fauquier, with roughly 1,100 reports to the County’s 911 center. When the lines come back, a propane furnace that won’t fire has often lost its igniter, $240 to $410 to replace, or its control board to the surge, $550 to $1,180.
During the late January 2026 Arctic outbreak the Weather Service had extreme cold warnings up on the worst nights, and on February 1 the Hume weather station, four miles northwest, read a wind chill of minus 8. That’s the kind of night a squealing blower motor picks to quit for good, $670 to $2,400 to replace.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Orlean’s own ZIP, 20128, is post office boxes only, so the Census Bureau maps no area for it. These are ZIP 20115 as a whole, the Marshall ZIP area Orlean sits in, Marshall included.
What you’d notice
Check the side wall before the phone. A high-efficiency propane furnace pulls in air and pushes out exhaust through a pair of white plastic pipes there, and snow drifted over them makes it shut down on purpose. Sweep them clear, cycle the furnace switch and wait a few minutes.
A few minutes of cool air in winter is a defrost cycle, and that’s normal. Cool air all the time, or emergency heat running all day, is a call.
Dust burning off the heat exchanger smells for the first few minutes of the season, then stops. A gas smell is different: leave the house and call your gas company from outside.
Safety and paperwork
Fauquier County Fire Rescue takes requests for help getting smoke and carbon monoxide alarms through a form on its Public Education page. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who fixes it
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
On a design-day night, the strips or the propane furnace do part of the heating. Have the tech fire the backup and confirm each stage works, so a burned-out strip shows up on a mild day, not at 2 a.m. in January.
Flame sensors, igniters and control boards all have a going rate. A tech who can’t tell you the number before starting is asking you to find out afterwards.
Getting the burners lit is half a heating call. Ask whether they check the flue and test for carbon monoxide while the panel’s open.
A big repair on a furnace past 15 or 20 years deserves a replacement price next to it. A good tech puts both numbers in front of you and lets you choose.
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.
Best heating and ac company in Northern Virginia. Very honest, very thorough, great prices. Will not use any other company again and I’ve used most of them over the years.
Where we work
Next door to Orlean: Amissville, Marshall, Warrenton, Delaplane and Rectortown.
Questions
Not the way it sounds. Wind chill is about how quickly skin loses heat; the outdoor coil only responds to the true air temperature. Wind does strip heat from a drafty old farmhouse faster, so expect longer run times. A coil that stays iced over is a separate problem, and a call.
Refill first. Propane suppliers usually want to test the lines for leaks before the gas goes back on. After that the furnace may need its safety lockout reset, and sometimes its flame sensor cleaned, $95 to $180.
The diagnostic visit is $99. A flame sensor cleaned is $95 to $180; an igniter or flame sensor replaced, $240 to $410; a control board, $550 to $1,180; a blower motor, $670 to $2,400.
Fix the small parts on almost anything. Before a big repair on an old furnace, look at the replacement number: a furnace alone, keeping the air conditioner you have, runs $4,285 to $14,040 installed, and the HVAC estimator gives your number in about a minute. From about $71 a month at 0% APR for 60 months, the whole price financed, on approved credit.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. The tech prices the repair from the book before starting, and if the furnace is at the end of its life 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 Orlean 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.