Data through September 2026 · updated 13 Oct 2026
How much does HVAC installation cost in Aspen, CO? The usual heating & cooling job filed with Aspen, CO is $20,000, from 515 priced permits (October 2023 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $15,500 and $47,500. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.
The usual heating & cooling job filed with Aspen, CO is $20,000, from 515 priced permits, October 2023 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $15,500 and $47,500. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A heating & cooling permit here usually takes 415 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →
Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 515 priced permits across 97 firms, pooled into one. Half of Aspen, CO heating & cooling permits were filed between $8,600 and $59,200.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $3,900 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $8,600 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $21,500 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $59,200 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $207,000 | 1 in 10 filed above |
Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: Pitkin County Assessor actual values.
| Firms working on | Usual home value | Usual filed value | Firms | Permits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower third | under $5,393,200 | $11,000 | 29 | 148 |
| Middle third | $5,393,200–$10,530,650 | $19,000 | 29 | 209 |
| Upper third | $11,072,800 and up | $30,000 | 29 | 149 |
Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.
| Firm | Permits | Last 12 mo | Usual | Middle half | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Control Company LLC | 52 | 21 | $10,330 | $5,458–$13,962 | 70.9% |
| Mountain Air Mechanical Inc | 53 | 15 | $9,877 | $5,888–$19,040 | 48.8% |
| R & H Mechanical LLC | 24 | 10 | $28,962 | $6,677–$45,812 | 70.2% |
| JTB Co | 19 | 10 | $35,600 | $10,373–$84,915 | 78.1% |
| American Plumbing Heating & Air | 22 | 8 | $24,132 | $11,742–$29,992 | 60.5% |
| Skyline Mechanical Inc | 15 | 8 | $174,363 | $51,694–$641,704 | 5 of 9 |
| Pacific Sheet Metal Inc | 29 | 7 | $57,795 | $8,000–$370,821 | 72.4% |
| Tom & Ellen Marshall Enterprises Inc | 24 | 5 | $15,575 | $7,488–$68,277 | 70.7% |
| Bishop Plumbing & Heating | 13 | 5 | $7,460 | $6,275–$16,160 | 7 of 9 |
| Aussie Plumbing and Heating | 10 | 5 | $40,250 | $37,000–$43,625 | 3 of 5 |
Line your quote up against the file. In Aspen, CO, 1 in 10 heating & cooling filed values sit under $3,900, the middle half between $8,600 and $59,200, and 1 in 10 over $207,000.
Aspen, CO files the fewest heating & cooling permits in December (58 against an average month of 100) and the most in October (125). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Aspen, CO →
Source: City of Aspen building permits on single-family, duplex and multi-family homes (the City's permit map layer; permits filed by architects or design firms, about 39% of building permits, are left unattributed because those firms aren't the contractor), with home values from the Pitkin County Assessor. The window is October 2023 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.
Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.
The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.
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Contractor Records, "HVAC Installation Cost in Aspen, CO: what the permits say", https://contractorrecords.com/aspen/hvac-cost, data through September 2026, from City of Aspen building-permit records.Link to a table: The spread · By home value · Busiest firms.
Download the tables (CSV): Key figures · By home value.
From our cross-city data studies: the same measure, read the same way, for every city we cover.
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