Turn your home's heating capacity in tons into an illustrative installed price range for a heat pump, furnace or boiler, plus one-time extras.
Enter the heating capacity your home needs in tons, where one ton is 12,000 BTU/h. The right figure comes from a room-by-room heat loss calculation (CSA F280 in Canada); see the heat pump sizing guide. A furnace is sold by input BTU/h, so divide its output rating by 12,000 to use the same scale: a furnace with 57,000 BTU/h output is about 4.75 tons.
Formula: low = tons × low price per ton + extras; high = tons × high price per ton + extras.
Worked example (illustrative): a 3-ton cold-climate ducted heat pump at $4,200–$6,500 per ton, plus $1,500 for a new 240 V circuit and a pad: low = 3 × $4,200 + $1,500 = $14,100; high = 3 × $6,500 + $1,500 = $21,000, before GST/HST or PST and before any rebate.
Limits: the preset ranges are rough illustrations to show how quotes scale, not survey data or quotes. A 200-amp panel upgrade, new ducts, a chimney liner, a drilled borehole field, oil tank removal or a difficult line-set route can each add thousands. Replace the presets with the figures on your written quotes, then check tax in the sales tax guide and programs in the 2026 rebate guide.
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