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Heat pump replacement in Purcellville runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed. Close to half the owners in town heat with electricity, mostly by heat pump.
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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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 Purcellville
About 49 owner homes in 100 inside the Town of Purcellville heat with electricity, and in houses built from the 1980s on that usually means a heat pump with electric strips in the air handler. With natural gas at about one home in twenty, there’s no gas furnace behind most of them. The heat pump is the whole heating system, so replacing it means a new outdoor unit and air handler on the ducts already there.
The town’s median owner home dates to 2001, and about half its homes went up since 2000. A heat pump original to one of the early ones is past twenty now, and if it went in before 2010 its label most likely says R-22, a refrigerant no longer produced, so a leak on it is usually where repairs stop paying. About one home in five in town is a townhouse, where the air handler tends to live in an attic or a closet and the new one has to fit the same way in.
On the county side the order flips: propane heats close to half the homes and electricity about a third. Where a heat pump sits in front of a propane furnace, it’s usually the heat pump that wears out first, since it runs in every season. Replacing it leaves the furnace in place, the new outdoor unit has to match the coil on top of that furnace, and the thermostat’s switchover temperature gets set again for the new equipment.
Under Virginia’s building code, a heat pump in a house replaced like for like needs no building permit, because it burns no fuel. Moving the outdoor unit to a new spot inside the town limits is a zoning question; the Town’s Community Development staff at (540) 338-2304 can say what the new spot needs.
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.
Inside the town limits: the downtown grid around Main and 21st Streets, the historic corridors along Main, 21st, 23rd and 32nd Streets and Berlin Turnpike, and the newer neighborhoods such as Village Case.
When it’s time
A heat pump frosts up on cold, damp days and clears itself with a defrost cycle. One that stays a block of ice has a defrost or refrigerant problem, and on a unit past twenty years, that’s the time to price a replacement next to the repair.
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.
A heat pump from a 2000s house that’s still original has run every summer and winter since. Once repairs start, price the replacement before the next one.
Choosing who installs it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Here a heat pump might be the whole heating system or the front half of a pair with a propane furnace. The setup differs, so ask that the quote name which one it replaces.
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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Where we work
Next door to Purcellville: Round Hill, Hamilton, Philomont, Waterford and Lovettsville.
Questions
Usually, if the electrical service has room for an air handler with backup strips, which a propane house may never have needed. Ask that the panel be checked before the quote is final, so a needed upgrade shows up on paper, not on install day.
A properly sized one with backup strips can carry most houses. In an older farmhouse, though, the ducts were often added later and run small, so we measure them before quoting, and if they can’t carry a heat pump’s airflow, you’ll hear that first.
$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 Purcellville 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.