Heat Pump System Repair Costs

Compare Repair Parts Prices, Service, Maintenance and Installation Costs

In this section of the Heat Pump Price Guides, we’ve compiled a listing of the most common heat pump service, maintenance, and repair costs. The figures are gathered from our own experience in the HVAC service and repair industry, as well as valuable feedback from homeowners like yourself, who have agreed to share the heat pump repair costs they paid for a licensed company to maintain, troubleshoot, or fix their heat pump system. Comparing repair costs to replacement systems, can help you decide whether to repair or replace your heat pump system.

Updated January 2024 – Repair costs, replacement part prices and supplies tables, as well as visitor submitted repair costs updated for latest pricing.

Jump to These Sections

• Service Call and Maintenance
• Furnace or Air Handlers
• Evaporator Coil (indoor coils)
• Heat Pump Condenser Units (outside unit)
• Related Parts and Services
• Cost Variables
• Visitor Submitted Repair Costs

HVAC Service Call and Annual Maintenance

When your heat pump breaks down, you need to have a local HVAC service technician come out to diagnose the problem and fix it. In most cases, homeowners cannot even buy the repair parts at their local hvac supply house without a licensed account. This first table covers the general cost of hvac service calls, hourly rates commonly charged, as well as maintenance and service contracts for heat pump systems.

Air Handler or Furnace Repairs

The air handler or furnace (gas, oil, or electric) is the fan unit that provides the forced air, and backup heat for your heat pump system. In most cases, they are installed in a basement, utility room, crawl space, attic, or interior closet of the home, and connect to your duct system.

Indoor Coil Repairs

The indoor coil, or evaporator coil, can be a V, N, or Slab coil design that is installed to the air handler unit. It’s connected to the outdoor condenser with a copper refrigerant lineset.

Heat Pump Condenser Repairs

A heat pump condenser, or condensing unit, is the large box-like unit that is located outside your home. They have a large fan on the top or side of the side of the condenser, and if you live in an area where you get snow on occasion, the heat pump condenser may be elevated onto small risers, to keep snow from accumulating onto the sides.

Related Expenses

Other costs related to heat pump repair are the general items needed to either make it work, or make it work more efficiently.

Variables

As you can imagine, there are many factors that determine how much heat pump repair costs. Some are within your control, but they are very few.

• Seasonality – If you need repairs in the middle of a heat wave or the coldest day of the year, you’ll pay a premium due to supply and demand.
• Age of System – Older heat pump systems are harder to locate parts for. They also use older refrigerants which are higher priced.
• Size of Unit – Higher capacity, generally means bigger and more expensive parts as well.
• Brand of System – Higher quality brand names spend more money on R&D and parts development, so their parts are likely priced a bit higher.
• Location of Unit – If a technician needs to crawl under your home, versus walking into a utility closet, everything they do is likely to take a bit longer, and thus more hours on the job.
• Maintenance to Date – A poorly maintained unit may take several repairs just to get to the broken part. For instance, if your blower motor fails, but you have never had the unit cleaned or serviced, you may also need to replace the squirrel cage wheel due to it being rusted onto the shaft.
• Extent of Related Damages – Assume the unit was affected by a nearby lightning strike, and the circuit board failed. By the time you replace the circuit board, you may find that the electrical breaker in the disconnect box also took damage, or that the compressor also suffered.
• Discounted Related Repairs – In the previously mentioned “extent” paragraph, it’s also safe to assume that if you have several items replaced at the same time, you won’t pay full cost for each of them. Since much of the work is done at the same time, labor would not double-charge.
• Condition of the Broken Unit – Whether we agree with it or not, there is quite a bit of information on the web that will help a homeowner try to diagnose or complete their own heat pump system repair. Many times, this can result in further damage to your system and turn what would be a simple repair, into a much more lengthy diagnostic process. If your system is broken, don’t try to repair it yourself, request the help of a professional, and make sure it’s done right the first time.

Visitor Submitted Costs or Estimates

We maintain a summary of repair costs submitted by our visitors. We refresh this section often and drop off dated data as it ages. You can submit your own service costs or heat pump repair estimates by using the form located at the bottom of the page.

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