Boiler repair and replacement in Broad Run.
Broad Run’s boilers burn propane, since none of its owner homes heat with utility gas: tune-ups are $69, new boilers $9,900 to $16,500.
Price range
$9,900-$16,500
8yrs @ 7.99%
$140/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$106/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
Book your boiler visit
- Hot water boilers, gas and propane
- Navien, Weil-McLain and Force
- Heating and plumbing teams
Broad Run boilers burn propane, and the tank in the yard is part of the job.
The Census counts 660 owner homes in ZIP 20137, all of them detached houses, and none of them heats with utility gas. Just over half use electricity, about 29 percent burn propane and about one in seven still burn oil. A hot water boiler out here usually burns propane delivered by truck, so the regulator and the line from the tank matter as much as the boiler does.
The oil burners in the one owner home in seven that still runs on oil aren’t ours to work on, but a propane boiler on the same radiators or baseboard, or a heat pump, is.
The typical owner’s house here went up in 1979, just over half are older than 1980 and about one in six is older than 1960. Those houses mostly vent their boilers up a chimney in metal pipe. Keeping the chimney means another cast iron boiler like the one coming out; going condensing, at $12,782 to $16,500, trades the chimney for a plastic vent through the wall.
Most of Broad Run is in Fauquier County, which wants a permit for any fuel-fired appliance, so a propane boiler swapped in the same spot still takes one; the Prince William side, where about one home in six sits, has the same rule for gas and propane. At about 415 feet near the Bull Run Mountains, January’s average low sits near 25 degrees and about 98 nights a year reach freezing, so a boiler here carries the house for months. Broad Run sits beside Thoroughfare Gap, 2.0 miles from the Bull Run Mountains, and Fauquier sizes heat for a 17 degree day. In April 2017 an EF0 tornado snapped trees along Airlie and Blantyre Roads near the hamlet, and a February 2014 storm left 14.0 inches of snow 2.9 miles south-southwest.
Broad Run houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
The Fauquier County side
ZIP 20137 as a whole: every Broad Run address. About one home in six of them is on the Prince William County side.
- Median home built1979 Census
- Built before 1980about 5 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 2 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, nearly all Census
- Heated withelectricity, about 5 in 10 Census
- Rentedhardly any Census
- A few homes here still heat with oil. We don’t work on oil boilers; a switch to a heat pump or a gas or propane boiler is ours to price.
- Some homes here run on propane, and a propane boiler gets the same tune-up, checked against propane’s gas pressure.
What boiler repair and replacement cost in Broad Run.
A new boiler runs $9,900 to $16,500 installed, the range of our own boiler replacements; a condensing or combi boiler lands at $12,782 to $16,500. A tune-up is $69 a system, regularly $99.
- High-efficiency condensing boiler or combi boiler, installed$12,782 to $16,50060mo @ 0% $213/mo
- Cast iron boiler on the chimney, replaced like for like, installed$9,900 to $13,69060mo @ 0% $165/mo
- Boiler tune-up, one system$69, regularly $99
- Boiler repair diagnostic visit$99
A repair starts with the $99 diagnostic. If the fix is a circulator pump, a valve or an expansion tank, you get that price in writing before we start, and you decide.
Want a closer number before anyone comes out? The boiler estimator asks a few questions about yours and shows the range for that job.
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
What your boiler is telling you in Broad Run.
The flame looks lazy or uneven
On propane, a tired regulator or low line pressure shows up as a soft, uneven flame and a loop that takes ages to heat. That’s a fix at the regulator or the line, not a reason for a new boiler. USGS says every private household in Fauquier County draws from a well, so a boiler’s fill water comes from yours, and a loop that keeps taking on water is leaking somewhere, with the oxygen in that fresh water rusting it from inside.
What the county says about boilers in Broad Run.
Fauquier County
Outside the town limits, Fauquier County issues the permit. It wants one for any fuel-fired water heater, propane included, and for any heater being moved; an electric one swapped for a similar unit in the same spot counts as an ordinary repair. Trade permits go out over the counter the day the application comes in. Source.
Fauquier County counts swapping an electric appliance for a similar one in the same spot as an ordinary repair that needs no permit. Moving an appliance to a new spot takes one. Source.
Fauquier County Fire Rescue takes requests for help getting smoke and carbon monoxide alarms through a form on its Public Education page. Source.
Prince William County
Prince William County requires a permit to replace a gas or propane furnace or a gas appliance such as a water heater, even like for like. Replacing an electric water heater with one the same size in the same spot needs no permit. Source.
Prince William County Fire and Rescue lists furnaces and water heaters among the household sources of carbon monoxide, and says to put a CO alarm outside each sleeping area and on every level of the home and to test it monthly. Source.
Prince William County Fire and Rescue says to have a qualified technician inspect the heating system and chimneys every year, to make sure nothing blocks the fumes from venting out of the house. Source.
How to pick who works on your boiler in Broad Run.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Will they read the propane pressure with the burner lit?
Ask for the gas pressure measured at the boiler while it fires, not a glance at the tank gauge. A propane boiler set to the wrong pressure runs badly however new it is.
Can they handle both halves of it?
A hot water boiler is half heating system (the burner, gas valve, flue and controls) and half plumbing (the water loop, circulator pumps, expansion tank, relief valve and zone valves). We hold a Virginia Class A license and run separate heating and plumbing teams, so each half gets a tech who does that trade every day.
Does the quote say how it vents?
A new boiler can stay on the chimney or vent out the wall in plastic pipe. A good quote says which, and whether the chimney needs a liner, because that’s where two quotes for the same boiler usually split.
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Boiler questions from Broad Run.
Can I switch my Broad Run oil boiler to propane?
Yes, that switch is ours to price, though we don’t work on the oil boiler itself. The quote names the new boiler, the line from the tank and the venting, and Fauquier County wants a permit for the new fuel-fired appliance.
How hard does winter work a Broad Run boiler?
Hard. About 98 nights a year reach freezing here and January’s average low is near 25 degrees, which is why the $69 tune-up belongs before that stretch: system pressure, the expansion tank’s air charge and the circulator, checked while it’s still mild out.
Do you work on steam or oil boilers?
No. We work on hot water boilers, the kind that heat radiators or baseboard, on natural gas or propane. If yours is steam or burns oil, we’ll tell you on the phone, and a switch to a heat pump or a gas or propane boiler is ours to price.
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Get the boiler looked at before the cold week.
Call any time: we run 24/7 emergency service. Or book online and pick a window. A tune-up is $69, a repair starts with the $99 diagnostic, and a new boiler gets a written price before any work.
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