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AC replacement in Rectortown runs $5,942 to $14,450 installed, for the condenser and coil on a propane furnace that’s staying.
Price range
$5,942-$14,450
8yrs @ 7.99%
$84/mo
15yrs @ 9.99%
$64/mo
Monthly figures on the starting price, the whole price financed, on approved credit. The lender sets the final terms. How financing works
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One of our HVAC technicians moving a new condenser up a driveway, the van behind him.
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Our own HVAC installersA dedicated heating and cooling team, separate from our plumbers
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What it costs
The same price book our estimator runs on, for a central air conditioner on its own, keeping the furnace you have. A single-stage unit on a small house sits near the bottom; a variable-speed one on a big house, near the top.
A central air conditioner alone, keeping your furnace, installed
$5,942 to $14,450
or $99/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
An air conditioner and furnace together, installed
$8,898 to $23,000
or $148/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
A heat pump in the AC’s place, installed
$8,499 to $21,650
or $142/mo at 0% APR for 60 months
Diagnostic visit, if it may be worth fixing
$99
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
The HVAC replacement cost estimator narrows it to your house. Then a tech measures, and you get the installed price in writing before anything is ordered.
With Comfort+ membership at $199 a year, the diagnostic visit is included, and half of each repair bill is banked toward replacing that system, up to $1,500.
What’s different in Rectortown
Rectortown is too small for Census figures of its own: 66 of its 74 homes fall in ZIP 20115, so that ZIP stands in, Marshall included. Of the ZIP’s 2,109 owner homes, 1,357 heat with electricity and 424 with propane, while utility gas reaches 8. Most of those electric houses around the village run a heat pump, and swapping one is its own job, $8,499 to $21,650 installed. The air conditioner swapped alone belongs to a propane house, where the coil sits on the furnace and the condenser outside does nothing but cool.
Wood changes the math. The same ZIP counts 160 owner homes heating mainly with wood, and where a stove carries the winter, the propane furnace is the backup, lighting on the nights the fire burns low. A furnace that runs that little often outlasts the air conditioner on top of it, which works every July. When the condenser quits first, replacing it and its coil while the furnace stays is often the right size of job.
The House of Burgesses established Rectortown in 1772, making it the oldest town in the county, and the state’s register dates 25 of its 54 surveyed properties to 1880 through 1910. The newest are the likeliest to have been built with ducts: block ranches from about 1958 and 1965, a brick Colonial from about 1988, a frame house from about 2000. In that last one, a builder’s condenser still running would be past twenty summers, and most likely on R-22.
Warrenton 3 SE, at 500 feet to the village’s 514, averages about 21 days a year at 90 or above, while Mount Weather, ten miles north on the Blue Ridge, logs about a sixth less cooling load. On July 16, 2025 a large tree came down at Rectortown Road and Frogtown Road, under a mile out, and many village yards are edged in stone walls. Keep the new pad clear of heavy limbs, with room to work; a new spot is Fauquier County permit work.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey, owner-occupied homes unless it says otherwise.
Rectortown’s own ZIP, 20140, is post office boxes only, so the Census Bureau maps no area for it. These are ZIP 20115 as a whole, the Marshall ZIP area that holds nearly nine in ten of the Rectortown Census place’s homes, Marshall included.
When it’s time
That pairing turns up where a wood stove does the heating. The furnace may be old by its date and still light on wear, while the condenser has cooled every summer. Before anybody prices both, have the furnace’s heat exchanger and blower checked. If they’re sound, a new condenser and coil is the job.
An air conditioner put in before 2010 most likely holds R-22, which hasn’t been made since 2020. A leak on one of those usually ends the repair road.
It’s the pump at the heart of the outdoor unit and its costliest part. Out of warranty on an older unit, the repair can come close to half the price of a new AC, the point where Goodman says replacing may be the better money.
Permits, locally
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.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who installs it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
In an old village house the furnace and its coil often sit in a stone cellar, and the copper lines come through the foundation wall or a crawlspace. Ask whether the old line set gets reused or replaced, and how the new one passes through the stone.
Ask how they picked the size. Copying the old nameplate repeats whatever was guessed when the house was built.
The outdoor unit and the coil on the furnace are rated as a pair. Ask whether the quote replaces both, and what happens to the line set.
A good company puts the repair price next to the replacement range and lets you choose. Already holding somebody’s big number? Take the free second opinion first.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
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Alex was very professional and the 2 technicians Oscar, and Derek was fast and efficient. They replace my A/C unit within the next day
Where we work
Next door to Rectortown: Upperville, Marshall, Delaplane, The Plains and Broad Run.
Questions
It can. USGS gauges Goose Creek where Rectortown Road crosses it, 1.2 miles north-northwest, with a FEMA Zone A floodplain along it, and on September 27, 2012, high water closed Crest Hill Road at Rectortown Road. On a low lot by the creek, a raised stand keeps the wiring dry.
For central air, yes. The furnace’s blower pushes the cold air through the ducts and the coil sits in its cabinet, so it stays as long as the cooling does. If you’d rather be done with propane, a heat pump with its own air handler heats and cools, $8,499 to $21,650 installed, and the stove still takes the coldest nights.
$5,942 to $14,450 installed for a central air conditioner on its own, keeping the furnace you have; size and efficiency set where yours lands. An AC and furnace together run $8,898 to $23,000. The HVAC replacement cost estimator gives your house its own number.
It’s worth pricing. A heat pump cools exactly like an AC and also heats on mild days, so with your gas furnace it becomes dual fuel. A heat pump system runs $8,499 to $21,650 installed, and we’ll price it both ways.
Ready when you are
Call, or send the form at the top. A tech measures the house and puts the installed price in writing before anything is ordered, and if the old AC is worth fixing, 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
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 Rectortown and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,131 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.