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For heat pump repair in Amissville, the diagnostic visit is $99. Call SwiftPro, rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews, at (703) 997-9757, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For heat pump repair in Amissville, SwiftPro is rated 5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews and works under Virginia Class A contractor license 2705192276. We cover heat pump repair in Amissville and the farms around it. We find why it isn’t heating and give you the repair price in writing before work starts. A contactor runs $290 to $425 and a defrost board $450 to $1,150, from our published price book.
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A Trane heat pump on its pad in a Northern Virginia winter, the kind of morning the calls come in.
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What it costs
The same price book as the rest of our site. The diagnostic visit is $99, and the tech prices the repair before starting it.
Repair diagnostic visit
$99
Run capacitor replaced
$240 to $370
Contactor replaced
$290 to $425
Thermostat replaced
$300 to $640
Defrost board replaced
$450 to $1,150
Control board replaced
$550 to $1,180
Prices checked .
We answer day or night, and we will tell you honestly when we can get there.
With Comfort+ membership, $20 a month or $199 a year, the diagnostic visit is included, any service is 15% off, and a heating maintenance visit comes every fall.
What’s different in Amissville
Amissville is a rare spot where propane beats electricity: about 44 percent of owner homes in ZIP 20106 heat with propane and about 36 percent with electricity, mostly heat pumps. Gas lines don’t reach, almost every home is a detached house, and the houses sit across three counties. The heat pump is rarely the only heat. It carries the mild months and hands the hard cold to a propane furnace or to strips.
That sets the first question on any Amissville call: what’s the pump supposed to do and what’s the backup supposed to do? A propane furnace that fires on a 45 degree day means the pump has been skipped. A pump that runs hard on a 15 degree night with no furnace behind it means the house is leaning on strips. We read the thermostat settings and the outdoor sensor before we go near refrigerant.
The housing is a mix of ages. The typical owner home dates to 1993, but about one in eight predates 1960, and nearly three in ten were built since 2000. Older farmhouses often got a heat pump long after the house, with ducts added in places they could fit. Those pumps run long, ice up and complain about airflow. Newer homes down gravel roads have pumps with boards and sensors where the failure is a code on the display.
Distance changes how you call us. A tech comes a long way for an Amissville visit, so the more you can tell us, the better the first trip goes: the outdoor unit’s brand and data plate year, whether the indoor fan runs, whether the breaker is on, and what the tank gauge reads. A photo of the data plate does more than any description.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIP 20106 as a whole: about half its homes are in Culpeper County, about four in ten in Rappahannock County, where the village is, and a few in Fauquier County.
What you’d notice
If you burn through a tank faster than last winter, the furnace is picking up what the heat pump should be doing. The tank is the clue. A heat pump that has quietly stopped working shows up first in the delivery bill.
When the outdoor unit stops pulling its weight, the electric strips in the air handler carry the house. The house stays warm, and the bill tells you a few weeks later. A stuck contactor is a common reason, and one of the cheapest fixes on our list.
A little frost on a cold morning is normal, and the unit melts it off every so often by running backwards for a few minutes. Ice that builds for hours and covers the whole coil usually means the defrost board, a sensor, or low refrigerant.
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Choosing who fixes it
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
In a propane house the repair may be a thermostat or sensor setting. A tech who goes straight to the compressor without checking the handoff may fix the wrong half.
Anyone can check on the state’s license lookup. Ours is Virginia Class A contractor license, on every van.
Every heat pump repair on our list has a range, and you hear where yours lands before a part goes in. If someone can’t give you a number until it’s done, keep looking.
An older heat pump with a refrigerant leak is often a bad repair. A good tech says so, with the repair price and the replacement price side by side.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Excellent work done honestly and efficiently. Efrain the technician was great. Was able to diagnose the problem quickly and get my older Amana gas furnace system working again.
The system we put in first
Built to take a beating. Put in by our crew.
Heat lamps, snow and rain on one outdoor unit: that’s Trane’s own film. We’re a Trane Comfort Specialist, on Trane’s own dealer locator, and when you pick a Trane, our crew puts it in.
Films: Trane’s own.
Questions
Check the tank gauge first, then the breaker. If both are fine and the house is cold on a mild day, book a $99 diagnostic visit. We test the pump and the furnace together and say which one needs the repair.
A start part is. A refrigerant leak on an R-22 unit often isn’t, and we show you that before you spend on it, next to the cost of a replacement.
That’s defrost. The unit stops the outdoor fan, runs backwards for a few minutes to melt frost off the coil, and you see steam rising. It’s normal. Ice that stays is not.
The diagnostic visit is $99. From our price book, a capacitor is $240 to $370, a contactor $290 to $425, and a defrost board $450 to $1,150. You get the number before we start.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. The tech prices the repair from the book before starting, and if the system is at the end of its life 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
SwiftPro Plumber & Water Heaters
4200 Lafayette Center Dr, Suite N, Chantilly, VA 20151
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 Amissville and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,130 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.