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AC replacement in Burke runs $5,942 to $14,450 installed, for the gas houses that pair a central air conditioner with a furnace.
Price range
$5,942-$14,450
8yrs @ 7.99%
$84/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$64/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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Price in writing firstYou see every option priced before anything is ordered
What it costs
The same price book our estimator runs on, for a central air conditioner on its own, keeping the furnace you have. A single-stage unit on a small house sits near the bottom; a variable-speed one on a big house, near the top.
A central air conditioner alone, keeping your furnace, installed
$5,942 to $14,450
or $99/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
An air conditioner and furnace together, installed
$8,898 to $23,000
or $148/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A heat pump in the AC’s place, installed
$8,499 to $21,650
or $142/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Diagnostic visit, if it may be worth fixing
$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
The HVAC replacement cost estimator narrows it to your house. Then a tech measures, and you get the installed price in writing before anything is ordered.
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 Burke
Burke splits almost down the middle on heat. Just over half the owner homes heat with electricity, which here mostly means a heat pump doing the cooling too, and a heat pump house replaces a heat pump, not an air conditioner. This page is for the other half: a gas furnace inside and a plain condenser out back. More of those sit in the Burke Census place around Lake Braddock and Burke Lake Road, where about six in ten owners burn gas, than in Burke Centre. The label on the outdoor unit tells you which kind you have.
Age decides the rest. The typical owner home went up in 1979, half of them before 1980 and nearly all the others by 1999, so very few Burke houses still cool with the builder’s AC. What’s out back is a replacement, and its own date is what counts. If yours has stood on that pad through fifteen-plus Burke summers, odds are it’s charged with R-22, and production of R-22 ended in 2020. A younger one runs on the refrigerant that replaced it, which can still be serviced, so it’s usually worth repairing until a big part fails.
Inside Burke Centre, the Conservancy has a say about the outdoor half. Its Architectural Standards let you replace a like air conditioner in the same location with no application at all. Moving it, adding a second unit or switching to ductless takes an approved application first, and units belong in the rear yard unless the original stood in a side yard. A ground unit the street or a parking lot can see gets screened. A new condenser can come in a different size than the old one, so ask whether yours fits the same pad before it’s ordered.
Close to four in ten Burke homes are townhouses, and on a row the condensers stand in small rear yards a few steps apart. The Conservancy asks for a new unit’s decibel rating when one is moved or added, and on a row that number is worth comparing anyway. If the old AC dies in July and the right replacement doesn’t match it, the Standards allow an Emergency Permit from the Executive Director, with the full application due within 30 calendar days. Each of the 65 clusters can add rules of its own.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Census figures for the owner-occupied homes in each place, and what that usually means for the AC that’s there now.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | The AC there now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burke | 1979 | single-family houses, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Gas furnaces with central air, often on the second or third AC. |
| Burke Centre | 1982 | townhouses, about 5 in 10 | electricity, about 7 in 10 | Mostly electric heat, so the cooling is usually a heat pump. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
When it’s time
In a 1970s Burke house with a gas furnace, the AC out back is usually somebody’s replacement already, and an older one is probably on R-22. When it starts blowing warm, the fix is often a leak repair plus a recharge with a refrigerant that’s getting scarcer every year. Put the repair price and this range side by side, and decide on numbers.
An air conditioner put in before 2010 most likely holds R-22, which hasn’t been made since 2020. A leak on one of those usually ends the repair road.
The new coil sits on the furnace and uses its blower. When the furnace is the same age, replacing both usually costs less than two jobs a few years apart: $8,898 to $23,000 for the pair.
Permits, locally
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who installs it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
In Burke Centre that’s the difference between no application and a wait for approval. A like unit in the same spot needs nothing from the Conservancy; one that has to move does. Ask the installer for the new condenser’s dimensions and decibel rating before you sign, and compare them with what stands there now.
Ask how they picked the size. Copying the old nameplate repeats whatever was guessed when the house was built.
The outdoor unit and the coil on the furnace are rated as a pair. Ask whether the quote replaces both, and what happens to the line set.
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.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,131 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Alex was very professional and the 2 technicians Oscar, and Derek was fast and efficient. They replace my A/C unit within the next day
Where we work
Next door to Burke: Fairfax Station, Springfield, Annandale, Fairfax and Clifton.
Questions
Not if it’s a like replacement in the same spot: the Architectural Standards say no application for that. Moving the unit, adding one or going ductless takes an approved application, and your cluster may have rules on top. Fairfax County is separate. It treats the swap as mechanical permit work either way, with a certification for the A2L refrigerant today’s units carry.
Burke heats both ways. Just over half the owners here heat with electricity, mostly with a heat pump that cools and heats from one outdoor unit; the rest mostly have a gas furnace and a plain AC. On gas, you replace the AC by itself, and a heat pump in its place is an option we’ll price beside it at $8,499 to $21,650.
$5,942 to $14,450 installed for a central air conditioner on its own, keeping the furnace you have; size and efficiency set where yours lands. An AC and furnace together run $8,898 to $23,000. The HVAC replacement cost estimator gives your house its own number.
It’s worth pricing. A heat pump cools exactly like an AC and also heats on mild days, so with your gas furnace it becomes dual fuel. A heat pump system runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed, and we’ll price it both ways.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. A tech measures the house and puts the installed price in writing before anything is ordered, and if the old AC is worth fixing, 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 Burke and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,131 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.