Colorado Springs furnace & heating repair
Sometimes the call is genuinely an emergency. Sometimes it's a Monday morning fix. We'll be honest about which one yours is. What we won't do: try to sell you a service plan, push the most expensive option, or send a sales rep before sending a tech.
Furnace & Heating Repair in Colorado Springs — what's typical here
Colorado Springs has a wide mix of housing — from pre-war brick to last-year new builds. We work on all of it; the diagnostic just takes a different shape.
Most of our Colorado Springs furnace & heating repair jobs come from older neighborhoods, where the housing stock just has more failure points.
The actual work
Heating-side repairs run different than AC. Most furnace calls come down to ignitor failure, flame sensor, control board, or pressure switch. Heat pumps add reversing valve and defrost board.
Gas furnace ignitor failures are the most common winter call — about 40% of no-heat calls. The ignitor is a $35 part and a 20-minute job; total flat-rate runs $185-$340.
Heat pump no-heat in cold weather usually means failed reversing valve solenoid (system stuck in cool mode) or failed defrost board (outdoor coil iced up). Both diagnoseable in under an hour.
Older furnaces (15+ years) develop heat exchanger cracks. We check for them every diagnostic visit because a cracked heat exchanger leaks carbon monoxide and is a replacement-not-repair issue.
Cost range
For furnace & heating repair jobs in the Colorado Springs area:
- Diagnostic visit: $90 – $130
- Hot surface ignitor replacement: $185 – $340
- Flame sensor replacement: $165 – $295
- Pressure switch replacement: $220 – $420
- Control board replacement: $420 – $850
- Heat exchanger replacement: $1,800 – $3,400
Sample job
Got a call last month from a the historic core Colorado Springs home — 20-year-old build. Symptom: heat pump blowing cold air in 28°F weather. Cause: failed reversing valve solenoid. Replaced solenoid coil, recommissioned, all done in in one trip, billed flat-rate at $1820.