Furnace tune-ups in Arlington.
A furnace tune-up in Arlington is $69 a system, regularly $99. About six in ten owners here heat with gas, often in a house far older than its furnace.
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Arlington’s gas furnaces sit under old houses, and rarely up in the towers.
Most of Arlington’s gas furnaces are in the houses, and a lot of the houses are old: a third of Arlington’s homes went up before 1960, and the historic districts in Penrose, Cherrydale and Lyon Park reach back to the 1880s and 1890s. A furnace in a house like that is a newcomer, set in a basement corner and connected to a chimney that was there long before it.
The Arlington County Fire Department’s home safety checklist asks whether your forced-air heater’s filter is changed every year and its venting cleaned. In a 1920s or 1930s house, the venting is the half of that question nobody looks at. The furnace has been swapped, the chimney hasn’t, and whatever joins the two was fitted by whoever did the last swap. A tune-up runs the furnace through its cycle and checks the safety controls that stop the flame if the flue backs up.
Over half of Arlington’s homes sit in buildings of ten or more units, and a gas furnace in a Rosslyn or Crystal City high-rise is rare: the heat there usually comes from electric strips, a heat pump, or a fan coil warmed by the building’s boiler. If yours is a heat pump or a ductless mini split, its tune-up costs what a gas furnace’s does: $69 a system, regularly $99.
Close to six in ten Arlington homes are rented, and Virginia’s landlord and tenant law puts the heat on the landlord: keep the heating in good and safe working order, and supply heat in season. So a renter’s first call about the furnace goes to the owner or the manager. For an owner, a fall tune-up while the tenant still has the windows open is the easy way to keep that promise.
Arlington houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Arlington
- Median home built1960 Census
- Built before 1980about 5 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 3 in 10 Census
- Most homes arecondo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 6 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 6 in 10 Census
- In condo buildings the unit in your closet is usually yours to keep up; the flue and the gas line may belong to the building.
- Renting? The furnace is usually the landlord’s to keep up, so check with them before you book.
What a furnace tune-up costs in Arlington.
$69 for one furnace, regularly $99, anywhere we work. The tech checks the gas pressure, the temperature rise, the safeties and the sequence of operation, which is the order the furnace lights, heats and shuts down in. A repair it turns up gets a written price first, and you decide.
- Furnace tune-up, one system$69
- Furnace tune-up, regularly$99
- Heat pump, boiler or ductless mini split tune-up, one system$69
- Comfort+ membership, a heating maintenance visit every fall included$199 a year
It’s priced per system, so a house with a second furnace for the upstairs is two tune-ups. A heat pump, a boiler or a ductless mini split is the same $69 a system.
With Comfort+ membership, $199 a year or $20 a month covers four visits every year: a heating maintenance visit in the fall, a cooling maintenance visit in the spring, a dryer vent cleaning, and a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection. We book each one when it’s due.
When a furnace tune-up earns its keep in Arlington.
The basement got finished around the furnace
Plenty of older Arlington basements became rec rooms long after the furnace went in, and the furnace ended up in a closet built around it, with paneling or a drop ceiling close by. The Fire Department asks that furnaces sit away from combustible walls and ceilings, and a gas furnace needs air to burn. Show the tech that closet; they’ll tell you if it’s too tight.
You’re in a condo
The heat in your closet is usually yours to look after, not the association’s. Check your documents, then book it like any house.
Before the first cold night
That’s the night every furnace in town gets asked to work at once. A tune-up in the fall finds a weak part while you still get to choose when it’s fixed.
What the county says about furnace care in Arlington.
Arlington County
The Arlington County Fire Department says to have a trained professional inspect, clean and tune up furnaces, flues and chimneys every year, and to fix any leaks. Source.
The same page names gas furnaces and water heaters among the appliances carbon monoxide can escape from, and asks for at least one CO alarm near where people sleep. Source.
How to pick who tunes up your furnace in Arlington.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Will they look at the vent pipe, not just the furnace?
On the third or fourth furnace in the same spot, the pipe to the chimney may be older than the furnace attached to it. Ask whether the tech checks that connection with the burners lit before calling the visit done.
Do they say what the tune-up checks?
Ask before anyone comes out. Gas pressure and temperature rise are readings on a meter, so a real tune-up has numbers in it, not just a look at the filter.
Will they tell you what can wait?
Some tune-ups end in a list. Ask which items are failing now, which can wait a season, and what each one costs, before you agree to any of it.
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Furnace tune-up questions from Arlington.
Does a Fairlington condo have a furnace?
Usually not. Heat pumps went in when Fairlington’s garden apartments and townhouses were converted to condos in the 1970s, so a unit there usually heats with a heat pump and backup electric strips. A heat pump’s fall tune-up is the same $69 a system as a gas furnace’s, regularly $99, so whichever yours turns out to be, the price doesn’t move.
How much is a furnace tune-up in Arlington?
$69 for one furnace, regularly $99, and the same for a heat pump, a boiler or a ductless mini split. If it turns up a repair, you get the price in writing before any work, and you decide.
Is this the Heating Check or the Clean Heat?
No. The furnace tune-up is its own visit at $69. The Heating Check and the Clean Heat deep clean, the one that takes the blower wheel out and cleans it, are separate offers with their own terms on our Clean Heat page.
Furnace tune-ups in the towns next door.
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Get the furnace looked at before you need it.
Call, or book online and pick a window. One furnace is $69, and anything it needs gets a written price before any work.
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