Heating, cooling and plumbing in Burke, heat pump or gas furnace.
Burke Centre mostly heats with electricity and the rest of Burke mostly with gas. What we find in 22015 homes, what it costs, and who signs off.
- Prices in writing, first
- Dedicated HVAC and plumbing teams
- Virginia license #2705192276
Get your price in writing
One ZIP code, two ways of heating a house.
22015 holds two Census places, Burke Centre and Burke, and the line between them is mostly a line between heat pumps and gas.
Burke Centre is the planned community the Burke Centre Conservancy has looked after since 1976: 5,862 homes across five neighborhoods, the Commons, the Landings, the Oaks, the Ponds and the Woods. About half its homes are townhouses, about 6 in 10 went up between 1980 and 1999, and about 7 in 10 heat with electricity. In practice that usually means a heat pump outside and an air handler in a closet or utility room.
The rest of Burke, Lake Braddock included, is older and more single-family: about 6 in 10 homes built before 1980, and about 6 in 10 heated with gas. That’s a furnace in the basement, a separate air conditioner out back, and a water heater that often shares the furnace’s flue.
The age gap reaches the pipes too. The pre-1980 houses mostly drain through cast iron, and much of Burke Centre was plumbed in the years grey polybutylene supply pipe went into houses, about 1978 to 1995.
Heat pumps, furnaces and the pipes between them.
A dedicated HVAC team and a dedicated plumbing team, so one call covers a heat pump in the Oaks and a water heater near Lake Braddock.
Heating
In a Burke Centre townhouse, heating usually means a heat pump with electric strips as backup. In the older houses around it, it’s mostly a gas furnace. Our Burke furnace repair page prices the common repairs on both, and our Burke heat pump write-up sorts the normal winter noises from the ones worth a call.
Cooling
Where the house runs a heat pump, the outdoor unit is the air conditioner and the heater at once, so a July repair is also a January one. AC repair, duct cleaning and dryer vent cleaning in Burke each have a page of their own, and the Comfort+ membership covers the yearly visits.
Plumbing
Older Burke houses bring cast iron drains; Burke Centre brings the polybutylene question, so it’s worth knowing what your supply pipe is made of. Water heater replacement and the yearly flush are priced on our Burke pages, and our polybutylene guide covers repiping.
Burke prices, in writing before the work.
Every town we serve pays the same, read off one price book, and you have the number in writing before anyone starts.
- AC run capacitor replaced$240 to $370
- Refrigerant topped up$190 to $740
- Condensate drain cleared$175 to $420
- Repair diagnostic visitabout $99
- Drain cleaning, one fixture$200 to $800
- Main sewer line cleaning$550 to $1,650
- Leak detection$200 to $500
- Pressure reducing valve replacement$500 to $1,000
- Water heater, tank, installed$2,757 to $7,494
These lines come from the price book on our plumbing page and our AC repair page. For a new water heater, the water heater estimator prices yours with the permit in the number.
For a new heat pump, furnace or air conditioner, the HVAC estimator gives the installed range for your house size first.
One county, one water company, and the Conservancy.
Your water
Burke drinks Fairfax Water, which supplies 97 percent of Fairfax County residents. Its 2025 lab figures ran from 3.0 to 10.8 grains per gallon depending on the plant and the month: moderately hard to hard, and hardest late in the year.
Reports: Fairfax Water, 3 to 10.8 gpg.
Your permit office
Fairfax County, for all of Burke. A gas furnace or gas water heater needs a permit even like for like, plus a chimney vent certification. Inside Burke Centre the Conservancy has its own say outdoors: a like unit in the same spot needs no application, but a moved unit, an added one or a ductless system does.
Permit pages: Fairfax County.
Your sewer line
Fairfax County puts the whole lateral on the homeowner, from the house to the county main, including the stretch under the street. Under a state-maintained road, a replacement also needs a VDOT permit, and the Conservancy publishes which Burke Centre streets VDOT maintains.
Sources: Fairfax County Code 65-6-5 and the Conservancy’s list of VDOT-maintained streets.
What neighbors say.
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All of 22015, inside Burke Centre and out.
In Burke Centre: the Commons, the Landings, the Oaks, the Ponds and the Woods, along Burke Centre Parkway and Roberts Parkway. Outside it: Lake Braddock and the rest of 22015. Next door:
Questions we get from Burke.
Is Burke Centre all heat pumps?
Mostly, not entirely. About 7 in 10 owner-occupied homes in the Burke Centre Census place heat with electricity, usually a heat pump, against about 4 in 10 in the rest of Burke, where gas furnaces lead. SwiftPro works on both, and on a heat pump the outdoor unit is your air conditioner as well.
Does the Burke Centre Conservancy have to approve a new heat pump?
Not for a like unit in the same location; the Conservancy’s Architectural Standards say no application is needed. Adding a unit, moving one or installing a ductless system needs an approved application, and outdoor units belong in the rear yard unless the original sat in a side yard.
Who owns the sewer pipe under my street in Burke?
The homeowner. Fairfax County Code makes the whole lateral yours, from the house to the county main, street included. Replacing it takes a county plumbing permit, and a VDOT permit too if the street is state-maintained, so SwiftPro runs a camera through it before anyone talks about a trench.
Is the water hard in Burke?
Moderately hard to hard. Burke is on Fairfax Water, whose 2025 figures ran from 3.0 to 10.8 grains per gallon, and it reads harder in fall than in spring. That leaves scale in a tank or a tankless heater over the years, which is what a yearly flush or descale is for.
Do I need a permit to replace a water heater in Burke?
For gas, yes, even like for like: Fairfax County issues it, with a chimney vent certification. Virginia’s code exempts an electric tank swapped in place, but Fairfax County’s own permit list still names water heater replacement, so we pull the permit and it’s in the price. In a Burke Centre home heated with electricity, the water heater is usually electric too.
Burke Centre or Lake Braddock, tell us your street.
Call with your street and what the system is doing. We’ll tell you what that usually means in a Burke house and what it costs, before anyone comes out.
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In Burke, SwiftPro repairs and replaces heat pumps, furnaces, air conditioners and ductless mini-splits, cleans air ducts and dryer vents, and handles plumbing from drains and leaks to water heaters and sewer lines, in Burke Centre and the rest of 22015.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing, 4230 Lafayette Center Dr, Suite N, Chantilly, VA 20151, (703) 997-9757. Every town we serve is on the town-by-town guide.