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Marshall, Virginia

Heat pump repair in Marshall.

For heat pump repair in Marshall, 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 Marshall, 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 Marshall, from the townhouse rows and apartments to the farms around them. We find why it isn’t heating and price it in writing. A contactor runs $290 to $425 and a defrost board $450 to $1,150, from our published price book.

  • Prices in writing, first
  • Heat pumps and air handlers
  • Dedicated HVAC team

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What it costs

What heat pump repair costs in Marshall.

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 Marshall

Marshall mixes townhouse pads, apartments and farm lots, and each one fails differently.

Marshall is the one village around here with a real mix of housing. In ZIP 20115 the Census counts roughly four in five owner homes as detached, but about one in nine is a townhouse, and a few more are in small apartment buildings or condos. Heat pumps carry about two in three owner homes, the highest share of any Fauquier village outside Bealeton, and nearly three in ten households rent.

In the townhouse rows, the outdoor units sit in a line on pads behind the units, and the air handler is in a hall closet or the attic. A noisy pump next door is an easy comparison: if a neighbor’s fan is spinning on a cold day and yours is quiet, that tells us something before we open a panel. The wall you share with the next unit also means the breaker panel is small and the circuit for the strips is shared with other load, so a long run of backup heat can trip a breaker that looks fine.

In the apartments and condos, the question is access. A unit on a shared pad or a roof needs the association’s or landlord’s go-ahead, and a tenant can’t authorize a repair on their own. If you are renting, your landlord is the one to call, and we can give them the findings in writing so the decision is quick. If you own, tell your manager a tech is coming so the gate or the roof is open.

Out on the farm lots, it is the other end of the same village. About a third of ZIP 20115’s homes went up between 1980 and 1999, so many of these are second or third systems. A June 2022 storm hit the Marshall area hard, and a pump that tripped then and has run oddly since may have a damaged contactor or control board.

A SwiftPro heating technician carrying an electric heat strip assembly through a Northern Virginia home on a heat pump repair

By the numbers

Marshall houses, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.

Marshall

ZIP 20115 as a whole: every Marshall address, the village included. The Census place for the village alone has too few homes for steady figures.

  • Median home built1986 Census
  • Built before 1980about 4 in 10 Census
  • Built since 2000about 2 in 10 Census
  • Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 8 in 10 Census
  • Heated withelectricity, about 6 in 10 Census
  • Rentedabout 3 in 10 Census
  • A lot of homes here heat with electricity, most of them heat pumps, so a failing outdoor unit shows up on the power bill before it shows up as a cold house.

What you’d notice

What a heat pump in trouble in Marshall usually does.

The strips run and the electric bill keeps climbing

In a Marshall townhouse the backup strips can carry the whole house for weeks while the outdoor unit does little. If the house is warm and the bill is up, check the outdoor fan on a cold day: no fan, no heat pump, just expensive strips.

Aux or emergency heat that never goes off

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.

The outdoor unit is a block of ice

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

How to pick a heat pump repair company in Marshall.

Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.

  1. Can you work with my association or landlord on access?

    Ask whether the company will coordinate the visit with your manager or owner. In Marshall’s attached homes that single call decides whether the repair happens this week or next month.

  2. Is the company licensed in Virginia?

    Anyone can check on the state’s license lookup. Ours is Virginia Class A contractor license, on every van.

  3. Do they price the repair before they start?

    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.

  4. Will they tell you when it’s not worth fixing?

    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 SwiftPro technicians going over a work order on a tablet in front of the van fleet in Northern Virginia

Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.

From our Google reviews

What our customers say.

5.0 stars across 1,130 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.

Excellent work by Tyler and Team. Right from pricing to performing professional installation of new Heat Pump.

koshal p., Google review, December 2024
The SwiftPro crew in front of three wrapped SwiftPro vans in Northern Virginia, with their drain machine, sewer camera and water jetter
Some of the SwiftPro crew: the people behind these reviews.

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.

Trane's film: a Trane outdoor unit on a dark lab stage under the Trane logo and "It's Hard To Stop A Trane."
Trane's film: a Trane outdoor unit under a spotlight against a bare wall.

Questions

Heat pump questions from Marshall.

My neighbor’s heat pump works and mine doesn’t. Is it the same part?

Not necessarily. The same noise can be a capacitor in one unit and a failed contactor in the other. We test it, and our heat pump repair page explains the usual causes.

What does a Marshall diagnostic include?

The diagnostic is $99. We test the outdoor unit, the air handler and the thermostat, tell you what failed and what it costs, and start work only once you’ve said yes.

Why does my heat pump in Marshall steam and go quiet in the cold?

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.

How much does heat pump repair cost in Marshall?

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

Tell us what your heat pump is doing.

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 Marshall 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.

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