The median owner home in ZIP 20129 was built in 1997, which makes an original furnace and air conditioner nearly three decades old. Three in four owner homes date from 1980 or later, so a lot of pairs sit in that stretch. Replacing both at once is a single install, with the indoor coil matched to the new outdoor unit instead of an old coil carrying a new condenser. $8,898 to $23,000 is the range, and the estimator quiz prices your house.
The Purcellville station logs 4942 heating degree days a year against 1050 cooling degree days, so winter outworks summer by nearly five to one. Of the two machines, the furnace has the longer season. A heat pump system, $8,499 to $21,650, takes the cooling job and a good part of the heating. A furnace alone, keeping the AC you have, is $4,285 to $14,040.
Nearly half of the owner homes here heat with propane, about 35 percent with electricity and nearly one in five with oil, and natural gas registers at zero. With propane, a heat pump can pair with a propane furnace, the heat pump carrying the mild weeks and the furnace taking the coldest nights. With electric heat, a heat pump system replaces the old one. Oil burners are outside what we service, so an oil-heated house gets priced for a heat pump, or a propane furnace with a new AC.
The outdoor unit has to live through the weather. A trained spotter measured 13.0 inches of snow a mile southeast of town on February 21, 2015, and storm winds snapped large poplars along Tim Tact Court on June 19, 2017. A heat pump should sit high enough to clear the snow, and a condenser does better away from the limbs that come down in storms like that.