Furnace and AC replacement in Remington.
Replacing a furnace and AC together in Remington costs $8,898 to $23,000 installed. In 22734 the pair means propane heat; most homes run heat pumps.
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Remington’s two building booms, and why its propane houses replace both halves.
Remington’s houses came in two booms with a lull between. ZIP 22734 has 287 homes from before 1940 and 213 from the 1950s, only about 120 from the 1960s and 1970s together, then 377 from the 1980s, the ZIP’s busiest building decade, and about 200 apiece from the 1990s and 2000s. A 1980s house is past its first system and often its second; a 2000s house may still have the builder’s pair, now around twenty.
Only some of those houses take this job. Electricity heats 639 of the 858 owner homes, and those mostly go to a heat pump and air handler instead, at $8,499 to $21,650. The furnace and AC pair is a job for the 92 owner homes on bottled or tank gas and the handful on a gas line, where the cooling coil rides on the furnace cabinet. When both halves share a birth year, one visit covers the matched coil, the propane conversion and the thermostat wiring.
Summer gets its say too. The NOAA normals from Warrenton 3 SE show roughly 21 days of 90 degrees or more in a normal summer, and NOAA logged heat indices past 115 for Southern Fauquier in July 2011. Winter still runs longer, about 98 freezing nights in an average year. So each half is sized on its own math: the furnace for Fauquier County’s 17 degree winter design night, the cooling for the heat the house picks up on a July afternoon.
Low ground decides where the outdoor half sits. When the Rappahannock at the Remington gauge passes 20 feet, the Weather Service expects water at a few homes south of town; in June 2018 it reached 23.1, and NOAA logged backwater flooding up Tinpot Run earlier that month. A new condenser can go on a raised stand or to higher ground, and moving it means a County permit.
Remington houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
The Fauquier County side
ZIP 22734 as a whole, the Town included: its own homes are too few for steady Census figures. About one home in fourteen in this ZIP is in Culpeper County.
- Median home built1989 Census
- Built before 1980about 5 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 2 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 8 in 10 Census
- Heated withelectricity, about 7 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 4 in 10 Census
- A few homes still burn heating oil. We don’t work on oil burners, but a switch to a heat pump or a gas or propane furnace is ours to price.
- Electric heat here usually means a heat pump with backup strips, which is priced as a heat pump system, not a furnace and AC.
What a new furnace and AC costs in Remington.
$8,898 to $23,000 installed for a furnace and air conditioner replaced together, 2 to 5 ton, from the same price book as our estimator. Where you land depends on the size of the house, the efficiency you pick, and what the ductwork and venting need.
- Furnace and AC together, installed$8,898 to $23,000
- Furnace alone, keeping your AC$4,285 to $14,040
- Heat pump system instead$8,499 to $21,650
The HVAC replacement estimator gives your house its own number. Then we measure, and the price is in writing before anything is ordered.
Two years of labor come with every install. Monthly plans are on our financing page.
When replacing both makes sense in Remington.
The basement took water and both halves are old
When the river or Tinpot Run comes up, the condenser outside and the furnace below can both sit in it. A furnace whose controls went under gets replaced, and a condenser packed with silt often fails early. Same age anyway? Price the pair once, not one half twice.
Your heat may not be a furnace
Where a lot of homes heat with electricity, the indoor half is often an air handler, and the like-for-like swap is a heat pump system, $8,499 to $21,650 installed.
The outdoor unit runs on R-22
The label on its side names the refrigerant. R-22 hasn’t been made or imported in the US since 2020, so a leak gets expensive. Replace it on your schedule, not in July.
Who signs off on a new system in Remington.
Town of Remington
Fauquier County’s Building office, in its Department of Community Development at 16 Courthouse Square in Warrenton, takes building permit applications for projects all over the county. Source.
Fauquier County
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 wants a permit for any fuel-fired appliance, so a gas or propane furnace replacement is permit work even in the same spot. Trade permits need no plans, and usually no zoning approval. Source.
How to pick who replaces your furnace and AC in Remington.
Ask every company that quotes the job, us included.
Did they size the furnace and the AC on separate numbers?
Here the heating load runs well past the cooling load, so the right furnace and the right air conditioner don’t come from one figure. Ask for the heat loss and heat gain behind each size.
Do they size it to the house, or copy the old label?
The old size is a guess somebody made years ago. Ask whether they measure the house and check the ductwork first. Too big short cycles; too small runs all afternoon in August.
Is the whole job in the written price?
Furnace, outdoor unit, matching coil, refrigerant lines, thermostat, permit and hauling the old one away. If it isn’t on the paper, ask.
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Furnace and AC replacement questions from Remington.
Which permits does a Remington furnace and AC swap need?
The propane furnace needs a Fauquier County trade permit even in its old spot, because the County wants one for anything fuel-fired, and an outdoor unit moved to higher ground needs one too. Inside the town limits that paperwork still goes to the County; the Town’s part is zoning. For your range before anyone visits, try the replacement estimator quiz; if the old pair might only need fixing, a $99 diagnostic visit comes first.
How much does a new furnace and AC cost in Remington?
$8,898 to $23,000 installed for the pair, by size and efficiency. A furnace alone, keeping your AC, is $4,285 to $14,040. The HVAC replacement estimator gives your house its own number.
Do I have to replace both at the same time?
No. If the AC is young and only the furnace failed, replace the furnace. If they’re the same age, do both: a new outdoor unit needs a matched coil, and one built for the old refrigerant isn’t rated for the new one.
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