These are the ranges Colorado Springs heating companies publish for their own furnace work, set beside the permit, inspection and rebate figures the regional building department and the municipal utility print in their own schedules. Nothing on this page is a quote for your furnace.
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Or call (719) 872-1436The regional building department prices a furnace or boiler replacement at $50, or $75 when the vent is replaced with it. A water heater swap on its own is $40, and an air conditioning condensing unit is $30.
The first re-inspection is $50, the second $100, the third $200 and it cannot be scheduled for two working days. Plan examination, where it applies, is 28 percent of the building permit fee.
Colorado Springs Utilities pays $900 on a qualifying ENERGY STAR furnace, $1,200 on a boiler, and $1,500 or $3,000 on heat pumps depending on tonnage and cold-climate rating.
Heating installation, replacement and repair plus gas piping in one and two family dwellings sits with a Mechanical Contractor B or a Gas Piping Contractor. Those are the license classes the department issues permits to.
Every range below is what companies working in Colorado Springs publish for that job, gathered from the numbered price pages under the table. It spans what several of them show, so the figures move with the specifics of the property and with who does the work. Nothing here is a quote, and no business has set a price on this page. A real number comes from whoever looks at the job.
| The job | Range seen | Billed as | What moves it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekday diagnostic visit on a furnace that quit | $89–$1201234 | per visit | Four Colorado Springs shops post a flat trip and diagnosis fee. One credits it against the repair, the rest bill it either way. |
| Smallest billable repair once a technician opens the cabinet | $185–$30545 | flat | Best Pro posts a $120 HVAC trip charge and a separate $185 minimum labor fee, neither credited against the other, so both land on one invoice. |
| Ignition side repair: flame sensor, igniter or thermocouple | $75–$500567 | flat | Absolute Comfort posts $75 to $250 for a flame sensor and $150 to $400 for an igniter. Mitchell posts $100 to $500 for these common faults. |
| Blower motor or another major component replaced | $500–$1,60056 | flat | Absolute Comfort posts $500 to $1,500 and up for a blower motor. Cooper puts its furnace repair ceiling at $1,600 with an average near $668. |
| Cracked heat exchanger replaced instead of the furnace | $1,500–$3,50068 | flat | Absolute Comfort posts $1,500 to $3,500 and up. Ascent puts the ceiling on any local furnace repair at $3,500, and this is the repair that reaches it. |
| Annual tune-up with a combustion safety check | $99–$24991011 | flat | Bergs posts $99 standard and $149 for the deeper clean, Solid Rock $149, and MSI puts single furnace tune-ups along the Front Range at $129 to $249. |
| Mid efficiency 80 percent AFUE furnace changed out | $3,000–$4,750712 | flat | Strong posts $3,750 single stage and $4,750 two stage variable speed installed, taxes and fees included. Mitchell posts $3,000 to $7,000 for a full replacement. |
| Condensing 96 to 97 percent AFUE furnace changed out | $6,300–$12,000121314 | flat | Bergs posts an installed figure beginning at $6,300, Strong $6,500 and $8,250 by stage, and Awesome Home Services a $4,600 to $12,000 replacement band. |
Prices each of these companies publishes on its own site, read on the date shown in each listing. A published price can change without notice, so treat a number here as what was posted rather than what you will be told today.
A furnace that shuts down in February produces one symptom and a dozen candidate causes. A dirty flame sensor and a cracked heat exchanger both end with a cold house, and they sit a factor of thirty apart on the invoice. That is why the bands here are wide at the top: diagnosis decides the row, and it happens with a meter on the control board, not from the driveway.
Position inside a band tracks three things: whether the part is proprietary or a stocked universal, whether nearby fittings crumble when touched, and whether the call lands on a quiet Tuesday or in the first hard freeze.
This city sits above 6,000 feet, and gas equipment ignores its sea-level nameplate here. Input has to be derated as elevation climbs, so a furnace sized off square footage alone arrives oversized, short cycles all winter, and wears out its igniter, inducer and board early. On a repeat failure, ask whether the part broke because the equipment never matched the elevation.
Replacing a furnace is permitted work, and the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department fee schedule states the numbers plainly: $50 for a furnace or boiler replacement, $75 when the vent goes with it, $40 for a water heater alone. Failed inspections escalate faster than the permit does, at $50, then $100, then $200, with the third re-inspection blocked for two working days. Heating and gas piping permits in one and two family dwellings go to Mechanical Contractor B and Gas Piping Contractor classes, so a changeout bid from an outfit that cannot pull a permit is not comparable to one that includes it.
It states the manufacturer and model, the AFUE, the input rating at this elevation rather than at sea level, the stages, the blower type, the vent material and route. It also states where the condensate goes and how it stays unfrozen, whether the gas line and circuit are adequate, the haul-away, the permit line and the inspection. The rebate belongs on the sheet as a separate line, not blended into the price: the utility pays $900 on a qualifying ENERGY STAR furnace.
A cracked heat exchanger is a genuine reason to stop repairing a furnace. The tell is being told about a crack that nobody shows you. A camera photograph, a combustion reading in parts per million, or a marked location takes two minutes, and condemning an exchanger without one asks for four figures on faith. Igniters, flame sensors, pressure switches, inducers and boards are repairs, not death sentences. The other pattern worth naming is the tune-up that turns into an emergency: that visit is a $99 to $249 job here, and it should end with a written condition report.
It prices equipment and a generic install. It does not carry the permit, a possible re-inspection, the chimney liner an orphaned water heater needs once a condensing furnace stops sharing the masonry flue, a sidewall vent through brick or stucco, gas line resizing, or altitude derating. On a mid 1980s house, the median vintage here, it also skips the undersized return that has been cooking blower motors for years.
Get the furnace inspected at the equipment and the repair price before any work starts. If the home has no heat, arrange a technician visit. If there is a gas odor, smoke, or a carbon-monoxide alarm, leave the area and use emergency services or the gas utility rather than trying to restart the system.
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