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For heat pump repair in Fredericksburg, 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 Fredericksburg, 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 Fredericksburg’s Stafford County side, including Falmouth. We find the fault and price the repair 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 Fredericksburg
This is Fredericksburg mail on the Stafford County side, not the city proper. About 46 percent of owner homes heat with electricity and 42 percent with gas, close to even, so a street here can have a heat pump on one side and a gas furnace on the other. Almost eight in ten homes are detached, and townhouses are only about one in eight.
The two ZIPs are different towns by age. In 22405, the typical owner home dates to 1993; in 22406 it’s 2004. The first is full of pumps on a second round, with ducts older than the outdoor unit. The second has newer pumps with boards, sensors and variable-speed fans. Falmouth, across the river on 22405, has the older cluster, where the oldest houses can predate 1960 and a heat pump may have been added to a house built around an old furnace.
Where a house has gas, a heat pump often shares the system with a gas furnace as the backup. Those dual setups depend on a switchover point, and when it drifts the gas furnace ends up running on days the pump should handle. Check your thermostat’s outdoor sensor setting if your gas bill is higher than it should be; a misread sensor is a common reason the heat pump gets skipped.
Newer 22406 neighborhoods built since 2000 are mostly one-owner pumps now at the age where the first real repair comes. Capacitors, contactors, defrost boards and thermostats are the usual ones, and each has a flat price in our book. If you bought the house used, find the install year on the data plate; it tells us which parts to bring on the first visit.
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
ZIPs 22405 and 22406 as a whole: Fredericksburg mail on the Stafford County side, not the City of Fredericksburg.
What you’d notice
If your house has both and you hear the furnace burning on a 40 degree afternoon, the handoff setting is off or the outdoor sensor has failed. That’s usually a cheap fix at $300 to $640, not a new system.
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.
In a newer two-story house on one heat pump, the top floor lagging a few degrees can be ducts or the thermostat’s settings, not a failing unit. We check the system first and tell you which it is.
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Choosing who fixes it
Questions worth asking anybody who comes out, us included.
In a dual setup the repair can sit in the thermostat or sensor, not the outdoor unit. A tech who skips that check can replace a good pump and leave the real problem.
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.
Swiftpro did a great job fixing my heat pump to get my AC working again. They’re easy to work with and explained everything so that I was able to comprehend the issue well. They beat out other local competitors in price for the same service by 40%.
Where we work
Next door to Fredericksburg: Stafford.
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
Ducts sized for another system often whistle or rumble when a heat pump pushes more air through them. We check airflow first, and noise is sometimes a loose panel or a worn fan motor, not the pump.
Newer pumps usually fail on a board or sensor, not the compressor. A $99 diagnostic visit reads the code and prices the part at $550 to $1,180 range before anything is replaced, and a replacement only comes up if the unit really is done.
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 Fredericksburg 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.