Matched system changeouts
Outdoor unit and indoor unit together, sized off a load calculation rather than off the sticker on the old one. The job most houses here need once the original equipment turns twenty.
Tell us what is being replaced, how big the house is and where the indoor unit sits. You get a real price range in about a minute. Then we do the load calculation, look at the duct and the electrical service, and confirm it in writing.
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Permit, inspection, a start-up report and the manufacturer registration are in every replacement we quote. We do not leave a system charged by feel.
Outdoor unit and indoor unit together, sized off a load calculation rather than off the sticker on the old one. The job most houses here need once the original equipment turns twenty.
A new circuit and disconnect, a condensate pump where gravity will not do it, new thermostat wiring for the backup heat and the old flue capped off properly.
The answer for the bonus room over the garage, the converted attic and the addition nothing else reaches. One head, one line set, no duct.
One room always wrong, or a system that whistles. Usually an undersized return, and usually cheaper to fix than to live with.
It will not start, it runs and never gets there, it ices up, it short-cycles. One trip charge however many systems we look at.
New duct in a finished house, zoning so the upstairs stops fighting the downstairs, a ground loop, a rooftop unit. We come and design it before we quote.
The form at the top of this page uses our real rates. It shows a range rather than a single number because the duct, the electrical service and where the condensate actually goes are things we can only settle standing in the house.
What is being replaced, how many tons the house needs, what you want putting in, where the indoor unit lives, and whether the duct needs help. The same questions we ask on the phone.
Midpoint plus or minus 8%. Nothing quotes under our $5,000 minimum, and a system still running on R-22 raises that floor to $8,400. Very large jobs get a site visit instead of a number.
Free assessment, load calculation, exact price, written warranty. Travel is priced from your ZIP, and the time of year moves the number — the two busy ranges are below.
These are dates, not a reaction to the weather. They run on the same calendar every year, they do not overlap, and there is a spring and an autumn either side of them when neither applies. A quote asked for in one of them carries the uplift; the same quote asked for in April does not.
Your ZIP code sets the travel line on your estimate. No surprises on the invoice, and no free hour on the Greenway that gets built into everyone else’s price.
3 tons, mid-efficiency, an attic you can stand up in, gas-to-heat-pump No, duct sealing Yes, R-22 No. Use ZIP 20176. Asked on 15 July 2026 the live pricing engine returns $14,374 – $16,873 with the disclaimer, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox. The $7,400 matched system, three tons at $1,150, the $850 efficiency step and the $1,450 duct package make $13,150; the one percentage answer, a stand-up attic at +9%, applies once to all of it for $14,333.50; then the cooling season adds its 9% for a midpoint of $15,623.52.--date=2027-01-15 returns the December figure. The two never compound, because the engine takes the first range that matches and stops — and on this account they cannot both match anyway, which is the whole reason this trade can show two.4 tons, gas-to-heat-pump Yes and no duct work: on 15 April the midpoint is $15,369.00 and it quotes $14,139 – $16,599; on 15 December the midpoint is $16,291.14 and it still quotes, $14,988 – $17,594; on 15 July the same house works out at $16,752.21, clears the $16,600 ceiling and routes rather than printing a number. Nothing about the house changed. The date did.1 ton, builder grade, a ground-floor closet, nothing else, ZIP 20176: the work itself is $3,550, under the $5,000 minimum, and it quotes $5,000 – $5,400 on any date at all. Note two things. The low end of the band is the floor, not 8% below it. And the season makes no difference to it whatever, because the floor is applied after the season and wins.2 tons, builder grade, ground-floor closet, on 15 April: the job’s own arithmetic is $6,500 and it quotes $5,980 – $7,020. Answer Yes to “is the system still running on R-22” and the same job comes back $8,400 – $9,072. Nothing was added: the floor moved, and because the low end of the band clamps to that floor after the range is drawn, the bottom of the published range goes flat. A quote with that answered Yes never comes back below $8,400.22030 (Fairfax) for the outer-ring fee: $14,452 – $16,965. Any ZIP outside the listed prefixes, whether 22314 (Alexandria) or 75001 (Texas), falls to the catch-all zone: $15,221 – $17,868, the percentage first and then the flat fee.99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.5 tons, variable-speed, a crawl-through attic, conversion Yes and duct work Yes, on 15 April: the midpoint works out at $25,114.00, clearing the service’s $16,600 ceiling, so the widget routes to “we’ll take a proper look” rather than printing a number. Because routing is tested on the midpoint and the band is drawn afterwards, that ceiling is set under $18,000 on purpose: the highest number this service can ever print is $17,928.1 system, a basement, no refrigerant history, thermostat fine, next opening. $232 – $296, and the $129 trip and diagnostic is inside that number rather than added at the door — it is the service’s base fee, so it is added once however many systems we look at. Answer “today, the house is at 88” instead and the urgency percentage takes it to $290 – $370. This service carries no season at all, deliberately: run it on 15 July and on 15 April and both return $232 – $296. What August does to a repair call is change how many of them there are, not what one costs. It has its own $1,400 ceiling: something loud and hot, eight systems, a crawl-through attic, refrigerant and thermostat both, same day works out at $1,411.25 and routes rather than pricing.