When a furnace fails on a cold January night in Burnaby, waiting is not an option. Our team services every furnace brand sold in Metro Vancouver — Lennox, Carrier, Trane, Bryant, Rheem, Goodman, American Standard, Coleman, Payne — and we carry the most common failure parts on every van so most repairs finish in a single visit.
Burnaby's housing stock makes furnace repair a unique discipline. Pre-1990 homes through Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill, and East Burnaby commonly run 30+ year-old units that are a maze of legacy parts. Newer townhomes through Brentwood and Lougheed have high-efficiency condensing furnaces with venting and condensate quirks. We've seen them all.
We do not charge overtime, weekend rates, or after-hours premiums. The diagnostic fee is waived if you proceed with the repair. Every fix is backed by a workmanship warranty and we document the work with photos.
What's Included
Same-day diagnostic
Call before 2pm and a licensed gas fitter is usually on-site that afternoon. Most diagnostic visits identify the failed component within 20–30 minutes.
Common-part stocking
Ignitors, flame sensors, capacitors, blower motors, gas valves, pressure switches, control boards — stocked on every van for first-visit repair.
Heat exchanger inspection
Cracked heat exchangers leak carbon monoxide. We inspect with a borescope and CO meter on every short-cycling, sooting, or moisture call.
Honest repair vs replace advice
Furnaces over 15 years old with major component failure are usually better replaced than repaired. We walk you through the math — never push replacement when repair is the right call.
Carbon monoxide testing
Every repair visit includes a CO ambient test in the equipment room. Burnaby's tighter newer homes are especially vulnerable.
Permits when required
Repairs that touch the gas valve, vent train, or heat exchanger may require a Technical Safety BC gas permit. We pull it.
Why Burnaby Furnaces Fail
Most Burnaby homes built before 2000 still run furnaces sized to the original house — meaning oversized units that short-cycle, wear out blower motors, and overheat heat exchangers. Cascade Heights and Sullivan Heights split-levels in particular often show oversized 100,000 BTU furnaces serving 1,800 sq ft homes that need 60–80,000 BTU.
Burnaby Heights and Capitol Hill heritage homes commonly run furnaces in unconditioned crawlspaces or attics. Cold-soak overnight makes ignition harder, condensate freezes in vent termination, and the constant temperature swing wears flame sensors and pressure switches. These are the most common service calls we run on cold mornings.
Newer Brentwood and Lougheed condensing furnaces have their own pattern of failures — clogged condensate traps, blocked secondary heat exchangers, and improperly sloped vent runs that pool water and trip pressure switches. None of this is a defect; it's wear-and-tear plus installation quality from the original builder, and most of it is a 60-minute fix.
Burnaby Furnace Repair — What It Costs
Honest ranges based on what we actually charge across Burnaby. Diagnostic is waived if you proceed with the repair.
- Diagnostic visitWaived with repair$120–$160
- Ignitor / flame sensor30–60 min on-site$220–$380
- Capacitor / pressure switch$280–$450
- Blower motor (PSC)$550–$850
- Blower motor (ECM variable speed)$900–$1,400
- Gas valve$650–$1,100
- Control board$650–$1,250
What Burnaby Homeowners Say
“Furnace quit on a Tuesday morning in February. Called HVAC Coquitlam at 8am — tech arrived from Coquitlam by 9:30. New ignitor installed, heating restored before noon. Honest pricing, no upsell.”
“1982 boiler was on its last legs. They replaced it with a high-efficiency combi unit, re-piped a few corroded sections, and pulled the gas permit through Technical Safety BC. Heat is more even than before.”
“We bought a 1999 build and the inspection flagged Kitec. They re-piped the whole house with PEX in three days, fixed the manifold, and only opened drywall where they had to. Clean job.”
Other Burnaby Heating Services
We handle the full heating silo for Burnaby homes — every service below is from the same in-house team, dispatched from Coquitlam.
Burnaby Heating FAQs
The questions Burnaby homeowners ask us most about this service.
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Furnace Down in Burnaby? We Can Be There Today.
Same-day diagnostic, no overtime charges, parts stocked on every van.
- Response within 1 hour — a real human answers, not a call center.
- Same rates 24/7 — no overtime, weekend, or holiday surcharges.
- Licensed, insured, permitted — Red Seal gas fitters, FSR electricians, $5M coverage.
- Workmanship warranty — 1-year labor warranty plus full manufacturer parts coverage.