Quick answer: New heating installation in Westwood runs $3,500 to $5,500 for a mid-range gas furnace, $6,500 to $13,000 high-efficiency, $7,500 to $15,000 for a boiler and $6,000 to $12,000 for an oil-to-gas conversion. Written estimates are free; an in-home assessment is $179.
H. Hofmeister & Co. Inc. is a licensed NJ heating contractor (NJ HVAC License #19HC002574, NJ Master Plumbing License #10625) at 115 Bergenline Avenue, Westwood, NJ 07675. Family-owned since 1966. Hours are 6AM-6PM seven days a week with 24/7 emergency service. Call (201) 666-1118. This page covers new heating system installation - gas furnaces, boilers, heat pumps and oil-to-gas conversions.
Sizing matters more than brand in this area. Pascack Valley homes were largely built in a single post-war stretch, so heating loads are predictable but the original equipment was often sized for a smaller, less insulated house than the one standing today. We run the load calculation before recommending a unit, pull the permit, and handle the inspection. Homes heated by boilers have no ductwork, which is why oil-to-gas conversions and ductless cooling usually get discussed in the same visit.
A heating system should be sized from a load calculation on the actual house: square footage, insulation, window area and orientation, and how leaky the building is. It should not be sized by matching whatever was there before, because the house it was sized for may have been altered, insulated or extended since. Oversizing is the common error and it costs you twice, once in the price of the unit and again every year in short-cycling, uneven temperatures and shortened component life.
In the Pascack Valley the honest default is to stay with what the house was built around. A home on baseboard or radiators heats well on a boiler and converting it to forced air means adding ductwork it has no room for. A home already ducted is straightforward for a furnace. Where there is no ductwork and no hydronic loop, ductless heat pumps are usually the least invasive answer, and they cool in summer as well.
A mid-range gas furnace installed is $3,500 to $5,500 and high-efficiency $6,500 to $13,000. A standard gas boiler is $7,500 to $11,000 and a condensing boiler $11,000 to $15,000. An oil-to-gas conversion runs $6,000 to $12,000 and is a gas-line, venting and heating job in one. Ductwork modifications where needed are $500 to $2,500. Written estimates are free and an in-home assessment is $179.
Heating installation in New Jersey is permitted and inspected work, handled by your town's construction office, and gas work is reserved for a licensed contractor. We pull the permit and meet the inspector as part of the installation rather than leaving it to you. H. Hofmeister holds NJ Master Plumbing licence #10625 and NJ HVAC licence #19HC002574.
Call (201) 666-1118 — H. Hofmeister & Co. Inc., 115 Bergenline Ave, Westwood, NJ 07675.