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Rectortown boilers lean on propane far more than gas, with tune-ups at $99 and new boilers $9,900 to $16,500 installed.
Price range
$9,900-$16,500
8yrs @ 7.99%
$140/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$106/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 heating technicians in a Northern Virginia basement. The same team tunes up, repairs and replaces boilers.
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
A new boiler runs $9,900 to $16,500 installed, the range of our own boiler replacements; a condensing or combi boiler lands at $12,782 to $16,500. A tune-up is $99 a system.
High-efficiency condensing boiler or combi boiler, installed
$12,782 to $16,500
or $213/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Cast iron boiler on the chimney, replaced like for like, installed
$9,900 to $13,690
or $165/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Boiler tune-up, one system
$99
Boiler repair diagnostic visit
$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
A repair starts with the $99 diagnostic. If the fix is a circulator pump, a valve or an expansion tank, you get that price in writing before we start, and you decide.
Want a closer number before anyone comes out? The boiler estimator asks a few questions about yours and shows the range for that job.
What’s different in Rectortown
Rectortown shares ZIP 20115 with Marshall, and across that ZIP about two in three owner homes heat with electricity and one in five with propane, with utility gas close to absent. A house here with radiators or baseboard is a distinct setup in a village of heat pumps and forced air, and its boiler most likely burns propane. The 2,109 owner homes in that ZIP are about eight in ten detached houses, and about one in five went up before 1960.
At about 514 feet, Rectortown gets the cold Fauquier plans for: the County’s design temperature for heating is 17 degrees. The 2016 blizzard dropped 24 to 36 inches of snow here; a boiler that quits in a storm like that leaves a house cold until the roads open, which is the argument for a fall tune-up at $99 a system. Late January 2026’s Arctic outbreak put Piedmont wind chills at 0 to 10 below.
For a propane or gas boiler, Fauquier’s permit rule covers any fuel-fired appliance going in. An electric boiler replaced with a similar one in the same spot counts as an ordinary repair and needs none, while moving a boiler to a new location takes a permit either way.
Going from a chimney-vented cast iron boiler to a condensing one changes the vent: the chimney stops being the path, and the new boiler needs a clear way out through a wall in plastic pipe. A condensing or combi boiler runs $12,782 to $16,500 installed, and the written price says where the vent goes and what it means for the siding. Goose Creek, gauged at Route 710 1.2 miles north-northwest, has a FEMA-mapped Zone A floodplain, and in September 2012 flash flooding closed Crest Hill Road at Rectortown Road. The March 2018 nor’easter’s 55-knot winds put trees and wires down across the county, many on houses, and a boiler is only as dependable as the power to its circulator.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Rectortown’s own ZIP, 20140, 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 that holds nearly nine in ten of the Rectortown Census place’s homes, Marshall included.
What it’s telling you
Air that collects at the high points of a closed loop stops the water moving. Opening each radiator’s bleed valve releases it; if it keeps coming back, the fill valve or the expansion tank is usually at fault, and that’s a repair.
An aging Peerless cast iron boiler in a Northern Virginia basement, chimney vented, on a SwiftPro service call.
Safety and paperwork
Outside the town limits, Fauquier County issues the permit. It wants one for any fuel-fired water heater, propane included, and for any heater being moved; an electric one swapped for a similar unit in the same spot counts as an ordinary repair. Trade permits go out over the counter the day the application comes in. Source.
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.
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 works on it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
A condensing boiler needs a wall to vent through. Ask the installer to point to the spot before you sign.
A hot water boiler is half heating system (the burner, gas valve, flue and controls) and half plumbing (the water loop, circulator pumps, expansion tank, relief valve and zone valves). We hold a Virginia Class A license and run separate heating and plumbing teams, so each half gets a tech who does that trade every day.
A new boiler can stay on the chimney or vent out the wall in plastic pipe. A good quote says which, and whether the chimney needs a liner, because that’s where two quotes for the same boiler usually split.
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.
…did a great job recommending a new system for a Condo that did not previously have one at all (Old Boiler System). The installation went great.
Where we work
Next door to Rectortown: Upperville, Marshall, Delaplane, The Plains and Broad Run.
Questions
Not when a similar electric boiler goes into the same spot; Fauquier County counts that as an ordinary repair. A propane or gas boiler swap does need one.
With about 98 freezing nights a year at the Warrenton 3 SE station, hot water heat earns its keep, and the yearly tune-up is what keeps it reliable. A repair on an otherwise sound boiler is usually cheaper than the switch.
No. We work on hot water boilers, the kind that heat radiators or baseboard, on natural gas or propane. If yours is steam or burns oil, we’ll tell you on the phone, and a switch to a heat pump or a gas or propane boiler is ours to price.
Ready when you are
Call any time: we run 24/7 emergency service. Or send the form at the top. A tune-up is $99, a repair starts with the $99 diagnostic, and a new boiler gets a written price before any work.
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 Rectortown 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.