Authorized Trane Heat Pump Installation in West Vancouver
Most West Vancouver homes that call us about a heat pump already have a gas furnace that works, and the installation that makes sense for them is a heat pump paired with it. The heat pump carries the house through spring, fall, and most of the winter, and the furnace takes over on the coldest mornings. We install Trane, RunTru, and KeepRite heat pumps as dual-fuel systems and as full replacements, from Ambleside and Dundarave up through Cedardale and the British Properties to Caulfeild and Horseshoe Bay, with a quote in hand before anything is ordered. We are an authorized Trane dealer, a Home Performance Contractor Network member, and a FortisBC Trade Ally, which means the rebate programs recognize the installation and we confirm what your home qualifies for during the assessment. Zero percent financing over 12 months is available through Financeit.
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Most West Vancouver homes sit on a north-facing slope under tall evergreens, and the shade does a lot of the summer cooling for free. A house in Cedardale, Sentinel Hill, or the upper British Properties stays comfortable downstairs through most of July without help. That changes what a heat pump is for here. In most of the Lower Mainland people buy heat pumps for the cooling and get the heating as a bonus. In West Vancouver the heating is the job. The cooling matters most in the waterfront homes along Ambleside and Dundarave with glass on the south side, and in the upper floors of houses that sit above the tree line. We size for the heating load first, from experience with the house type, and make sure the cooling side is not oversized for a shaded home, because a heat pump that is too big for the summer load starts and stops all afternoon and costs more to run.
The second thing that shapes the job is what is already in the house. Most homes in Ambleside, Dundarave, Caulfeild, and Cedardale have a gas furnace and ductwork, and for those the practical install is dual fuel: a Trane, RunTru, or KeepRite heat pump added to the existing furnace, with a new thermostat that switches to gas below a set outdoor temperature. The furnace stays, the ductwork stays, and the heat pump does most of the heating hours. The 1960s and 1970s houses in the British Properties are a different job. Many run on a boiler and radiant heat with no ductwork at all, and those homes have an option too, covered in the questions below. Either way, the first visit tells you which system fits the house rather than which one we would like to sell.
A straightforward heat pump installation runs $7,000 to $9,000 in West Vancouver, and $9,000 to $12,000 when the house needs an electrical panel upgrade, duct modifications, or a long line run from the outdoor unit to the house. That price includes the outdoor unit, the matching indoor coil, the line set, the drainage, the electrical work by a certified electrician, the permits, and removal and disposal of whatever the heat pump replaces, with parts and labour covered. Eaton's Heating is TSBC licensed (LGA0200006), a Home Performance Contractor Network member, and holds a 4.9 rating across 400-plus Google reviews. The quote is fixed before anything is ordered, and the number on it is the number on the invoice.
Rebates are the part that has changed most in the last two years. For a gas-heated home, the CleanBC and FortisBC rebate programs now favour the dual-fuel path over a full switch, and every program requires the installer to be a Home Performance Contractor Network member or the rebate cannot be claimed. As a FortisBC Trade Ally we confirm what your home qualifies for during the assessment rather than quoting an amount that may have changed. On a dual-fuel job the furnace side has to be sound before we pair anything with it, which is why the assessment starts there. Once the heat pump is in, the same team handles heat pump repair in West Vancouver for the years after.
Nothing dramatic, which is the point. The furnace stays where it is. The new indoor coil sits in the ductwork above the furnace, so the furnace blower moves the air for both the heat pump and the gas heat. The old thermostat comes out and a dual-fuel thermostat goes in, set to run the heat pump above a chosen outdoor temperature and the furnace below it. In a Dundarave home at sea level the furnace may run a handful of mornings a winter. In Whitby Estates or Chartwell it runs more often, and that is the system working as designed rather than a problem. The furnace also runs briefly during the heat pump's defrost cycles, so there is no dip in the house.
The one thing that changes is how much the furnace blower runs. It now moves air for most of the heating season instead of a few cold months, so the filter needs changing more often and the blower motor does more hours. Before we pair a heat pump with a furnace, we check its age and condition. A furnace from the last ten or twelve years is a good match. A furnace from the mid-1990s, which is common in the village band from Ambleside through Dundarave, is usually near the end, and replacing both together costs less than doing the heat pump now and the furnace in two years. We cover that on our furnace replacement page and we tell you at the assessment which side of the line your furnace is on.
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A straightforward Trane, RunTru, or KeepRite installation runs $7,000 to $9,000, whether it is a dual-fuel pairing with your existing furnace or a full replacement of an older heat pump. The $9,000 to $12,000 range covers the things that make a job complex: an electrical panel upgrade, duct modifications in a home where the existing ducts are undersized, or a long line run from an outdoor unit that has to sit well away from the house, which happens on the terraced lots in the British Properties and Caulfeild. Every job is quoted before anything is ordered, the quote is the final price, and zero percent financing over 12 months is available through Financeit.
It depends on how your home is heated now and which programs are open when you install. For gas-heated homes, which is most of West Vancouver, the CleanBC and FortisBC rebate programs currently support the dual-fuel path, a heat pump paired with a high-efficiency gas furnace. Amounts and eligibility change often, so we do not promise a figure. What does not change is that the installer must be a Home Performance Contractor Network member for the rebate to be claimed, which we are. As a FortisBC Trade Ally we confirm what your home qualifies for during the assessment, and current programs are listed on our BC rebates page.
Yes. The Trane, RunTru, and KeepRite units we install are rated to heat well below freezing, which covers nearly every day at sea level in Ambleside and Dundarave. In the upper British Properties, where the temperature runs several degrees colder and the snow sits longer, the heat pump still does most of the heating hours and the furnace covers the cold snaps. In a dual-fuel home that is automatic. In a full-replacement home without a furnace, the electric backup inside the air handler does the same job on the coldest mornings, and we size the system so those mornings are few.
Yes. This is the situation in many of the original British Properties homes, and the answer is a mini-split system: an outdoor unit connected to wall-mounted indoor heads in the rooms that need heating and cooling, with no ductwork and no walls opened. The boiler stays and keeps doing the radiant heating. The mini-split adds cooling to the upstairs bedrooms and the rooms with the most glass, and heats those rooms in the shoulder seasons so the boiler runs less. The boiler and radiant work we do in these same houses is on our West Vancouver HVAC services page. We install Mitsubishi, Daikin, and Fujitsu systems in these homes and quote them the same way, before anything is ordered.
Sometimes. A heat pump needs its own circuit, and many West Vancouver homes built in the 1960s and 1970s are still on a 100-amp panel with little room left, especially if a hot tub, an EV charger, or a second kitchen has been added over the years. A dual-fuel system with a gas furnace draws less than a full electric system, which is one more reason it suits gas-heated homes. The assessment includes a look at the panel, and if an upgrade is needed it is done by a certified electrician as part of the job and shown as its own line on the quote.
Yes, and in West Vancouver that is often the whole reason for the call. A house under the canopy in Sentinel Hill or Cedardale stays cool downstairs all summer while the upstairs, closer to the roof and above the tree line, gets uncomfortable by mid-afternoon. In a ducted home, a dual-fuel heat pump cools the whole house through the existing ducts and the upstairs rooms benefit most. In a home without ducts, indoor heads go in the bedrooms only. Both are quoted at the assessment, and both can be sized so the downstairs is not overcooled.
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