Furnace replacement in Warrenton.
A new gas or propane furnace in Warrenton runs $4,285 to $14,040 installed, keeping the AC you have. In town, six owner homes in ten burn natural gas.
- Installed price in writing
- Sized to the house, not the old nameplate
- Dedicated HVAC team
Get your furnace priced in writing
Columbia Gas in town, propane tanks past the limits, and a permit on both sides.
Inside the Town of Warrenton, 1,525 of the 2,509 owner homes heat with natural gas, and the town sits in Columbia Gas of Virginia’s service area. About one home in six in town went up before 1940, and the Town’s Historic District guidelines put its biggest concentration of houses along Winchester, Waterloo, Culpeper, Lee and Falmouth Streets. The 2000s were its busiest decade, about 950 homes.
A furnace alone is the right call when the air conditioner on it is clearly younger; the outdoor half lives in the weather and often goes first. The coil rests on the furnace cabinet, so the new furnace has to match its width and the airflow the coil was built for. If the two dates sit within a few years, price the pair too: $8,898 to $23,000 installed, opening the closet once.
In New Baltimore, which takes in Vint Hill, 534 owner homes burn propane from a yard tank, about one in seven. Most new furnaces ship set up for natural gas, so for propane one gets converted and the connection leak tested before it’s lit.
Where the old furnace shared a masonry chimney with a gas water heater, a wall-vented replacement leaves that flue to the water heater by itself, and it may need a liner sized to match. Repairs to a masonry chimney, its flue or its liner are on the Town’s always-permit list too, so get the liner priced or ruled out in writing.
The furnaces across Warrenton, place by place.
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what that usually means for the furnace that’s there now.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | The furnace there now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Baltimore | 1999 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, about 5 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses, many on their second furnace. |
| Warrenton | 1993 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses, many on their second furnace. |
Warrenton houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
The Town of Warrenton
Inside the town limits, a little over 4 of the roughly 110 square miles the two Warrenton ZIP codes cover: the Historic District around Main Street, Leeds Square, and the streets off Broadview Avenue and Alwington Boulevard.
- Median home built1993 Census
- Built before 1980about 4 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 3 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 5 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 6 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 4 in 10 Census
- Most heat here is gas, so the usual job is gas furnace for gas furnace, and the real choice is how efficient the new one should be.
The Fauquier County side
New Baltimore only. It’s the one Census place on the county side with mostly Warrenton mail, so the farms and lots beyond it aren’t in these figures.
- Median home built1999 Census
- Built before 1980about 3 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 5 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, nearly all Census
- Heated withgas, about 5 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 1 in 10 Census
- Propane heats a real share of homes here, and we replace propane furnaces too.
- A lot of furnaces here are the builder’s originals, coming up on twenty years.
What a new furnace costs in Warrenton.
The same price book our estimator runs on, for a gas furnace on its own, 2 to 5 tons, keeping the air conditioner you have. A single-stage furnace in a small house sits near the bottom; a modulating one in a big house, near the top.
- A gas furnace alone, keeping your air conditioner, installed$4,285 to $14,040
- A furnace and air conditioner together, installed$8,898 to $23,000
- Repair diagnostic visit, if it may be worth fixing$99
The HVAC replacement cost estimator narrows it to your house. Then a tech measures, and you get the installed price in writing, at no charge, before anything is ordered.
Natural gas or propane, in a house, a townhouse or a condo, we replace them all. Oil furnaces we don’t.
When a new furnace makes sense in Warrenton.
You want a high-efficiency furnace in a Historic District house
A high-efficiency furnace vents out a side wall in plastic pipe, not up the chimney. In the Historic District a new hole in an outside wall goes through the Town’s Certificate of Appropriateness process, and the guidelines call taking down a historic chimney inappropriate even once nothing uses it. Settle the vent route first.
It’s still the builder’s furnace
A house from the 2000s often runs the furnace it was built with. Around twenty years, inducer motors and control boards start to go, one after another.
You heat with propane
We replace propane furnaces as well as natural gas ones. The new furnace is set up for propane before it’s lit, and the quote is written for your house.
Who signs off on a new furnace in Warrenton.
Town of Warrenton
The Town lists replacing a gas furnace among the jobs that always need a Town permit. Source.
Fauquier County
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 the best furnace replacement company in Warrenton.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Did they show you where the new vent pipe exits?
A wall-vented furnace needs an exit clear of windows, doors and the gas meter, and in the Historic District one the Town can approve. Ask to see it marked before you sign.
Did they size it to your house?
Ask how they picked the size. Copying the old nameplate repeats whatever was guessed when the house was built.
Did they check the air conditioner you’re keeping?
A new furnace has to work with the coil and the outdoor unit already there. Ask whether they looked at both before quoting a furnace on its own.
Will they tell you if it’s worth fixing?
A good company puts the repair price next to the replacement range and lets you choose. Already holding somebody’s big number? Take the free second opinion first.
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Furnace replacement questions from Warrenton.
Does Columbia Gas pay anything toward a new furnace in Warrenton?
Columbia Gas of Virginia’s WarmWise program pays its residential customers a rebate on a natural gas furnace rated 90 percent AFUE or better, in an existing house heated mainly by gas. Funding is capped and first come, first served, so check the current terms before choosing a model.
On propane out in Vint Hill: should I look at a heat pump instead?
Price both. Close to three New Baltimore owners in ten already heat with electricity, and a heat pump backed by your propane furnace is the middle road. The HVAC replacement cost estimator gives a range for each; a furnace that may still be worth fixing gets a $99 diagnostic visit.
How much does a new furnace cost in Warrenton?
$4,285 to $14,040 installed for a gas furnace on its own, keeping the air conditioner you have; size and efficiency set where yours lands. A furnace and air conditioner together run $8,898 to $23,000. The HVAC replacement cost estimator gives your house its own number.
Should I repair it or replace it?
Fix the small parts on almost any furnace. Past fifteen years, with a repair over a third of the price of a new one, replacing usually wins. Not sure which you’re looking at? The diagnostic visit is $99, and the tech prices the repair before starting it.
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Call, or book online and pick a window. A tech measures the house and puts the installed price in writing before anything is ordered, and if the old furnace is worth fixing, you’ll hear that first.
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