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A new heat pump system, the outdoor unit and the air handler inside, runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed.
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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Heat pump replacement in Bluemont, where electricity heats more than half of owner homes and winter on the slope runs long. The HVAC estimator narrows that to your house.
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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 Bluemont
Price first: a heat pump and air handler runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed, and our estimator quiz sorts out where your house lands. Electricity heats 54 percent of the owner homes in ZIP 20135, the largest slice, and heat pumps are filed under electricity in the Census. In those houses a heat pump is often the whole system, its outdoor unit working through summer and winter alike. Wood or another fuel heats 24 percent and propane 14.
Cold is the question on this slope. January lows average 22.3 degrees at Mount Weather and 24.5 at Purcellville, which stands in for the village, and the two stations log 104.7 and 114.7 days a year at or below 32. Heating degree days total 5,302 up the mountain and 4,942 in the valley. A heat pump carries the mild stretches well; on the coldest nights its electric strips, or a propane furnace beside it, finish the job, and the quote should name which.
Snow decides where the outdoor unit goes. The 2016 blizzard left 36.6 inches near Bluemont, and February 2010 left 30.1 inches in the village. A unit on a low pad can end up under a drift, where it cannot breathe or defrost. And with electricity as the only fuel, an outage like the ones Loudoun County saw in February 2010 takes the heat with it, so ask what the house has for backup.
About one owner home in seven burns propane, and there a heat pump usually joins the furnace in place of the air conditioner. A furnace and air conditioner pair runs $8,898 to $23,000 for comparison. If oil is what you burn now, about 4 percent of owner homes, the burner itself is not our work, but replacing it with a heat pump system is. Either way the first step is an honest look at the ducts the new air handler will use.
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 20135 as a whole: about seven in ten of its homes are in Clarke County, most of the rest in Loudoun around the village, and a few in West Virginia.
When it’s time
A heat pump’s outdoor unit needs clear air. After a storm like January 2016’s 36.6 inches near Bluemont, a unit on a low pad can sit under a drift. A coil with a light frost is doing its job; one wrapped in solid ice hour after hour has a defrost or refrigerant fault. That is a $99 diagnostic visit, and a taller stand may be part of the answer.
When the heat pump can’t keep up, the electric strips take over, and they cost far more to run. Aux heat on for hours is the sign.
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.
Choosing who installs it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Bad Bluemont winters have left 30 or more inches of snow, so a pad at ground level can end up under a drift. Ask how high the unit will sit, what keeps drifts off its coil, and what carries the house on the coldest nights, strips or a furnace. A quote that cannot answer all three was not written for this slope.
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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SwiftPro came today to install our new HVAC system and they were fantastic. They were super courteous and well organized and kept the whole place clean and tidy the entire time. The price was reasonable and the whole experience was amazing. Highly recommend them!
Where we work
Next door to Bluemont: Round Hill, Philomont, Purcellville, Upperville and Middleburg.
Questions
With a plan for the coldest nights, yes. Mount Weather’s January low averages 22.3 degrees, and the late January 2026 arctic outbreak brought forecast wind chills of minus 20 to minus 30 across the Blue Ridge. Systems typically lean on electric strips or a furnace then. Ask the installer which one yours will use, and how it switches over.
Usually it joins the furnace. In a propane house the heat pump takes the air conditioner’s place and carries the mild weather, while the furnace takes the cold. Propane is the fuel in roughly 14 percent of this ZIP’s owner homes. A diagnostic visit, $99, is the place to start if you are still deciding whether the system you have is worth saving.
$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 Bluemont 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.