Heat Pumps: anyone have one/thought about it?

jonneymendoza said:
When did this grant become active?
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I don't know, I don't know when you did your work either.

I bought a house and paid stamp duty of like £10K, then less than a year later that would have basically been £0 thanks to stamp duty changes/incentives.

Sometimes stuff doesn't go your way sadly.

Bunch of people went onto Furlough during covid, getting paid 80% of wage not to work, I didn't get this either.
 
HungryHippos said:
I don't know, I don't know when you did your work either.

I bought a house and paid stamp duty of like £10K, then less than a year later that would have basically been £0 thanks to stamp duty changes/incentives.

Sometimes stuff doesn't go your way sadly.

Bunch of people went onto Furlough during covid, getting paid 80% of wage not to work, I didn't get this either.
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My main point is that this grant didn't exist for those who recently upgraded there gas boilers. It's not a buyers remorse...

Do a search in this forum and you see that I created a heat pump thread almost a year ago.

No grants certainly did no exist and many people said it wasn't a good idea to get unless you address any insulation or lack of, check radiators are efficient and if you have space for hot water tank and space to fit the unit outside as well as the cost of installing it.

Its not buyers remorse. It's weighing up the pros and cons.

Why are some people acting like fanboys about heat pumps and defending there decision in getting one?
 
jonneymendoza said:
Just a tiny bit it would but not much.

Would you go for air source or ground source heat pump?
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No as 200sols says you simply won't have solar power to spare in the winter.

I've had days with basically 0 kWh generation.

Even the best day for me in December was like 10 kWh lol. I'll use that on the house in general mostly, solar doesn't suddenly make Heat Pumps better imo.
 
HungryHippos said:
No as 200sols says you simply won't have solar power to spare in the winter.

I've had days with basically 0 kWh generation.

Even the best day for me in December was like 10 kWh lol. I'll use that on the house in general mostly, solar doesn't suddenly make Heat Pumps better imo.
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Ahh right ok sucks!

Does your electric heat pump cost more than a gas boiler during the winter months?
 
The £5k version of the grant has been around for a while - couple of years. Before that you could get the RHI grant which paid about the same, it’s just not upfront, it’s paid over a number of years. The RHI paid more, the bigger property you have.
 
200sols said:
Solar panels and heat pump? Why you still pushing that rubbish after being told you're wrong like 500 times already?

Insulation is the big one here and as the article says, working out how to do it properly on aging housing is a challenge.
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Agree, Solar does not help heat pump and all it does is you pay in advance for installation and hopefully get the benefit of not paying top unit prices in the years to come which ASHP would defo use up. I think ripple wind farm is better than home PV just to throw that in the mix of discussion :P

HungryHippos said:
I don't know, I don't know when you did your work either.

I bought a house and paid stamp duty of like £10K, then less than a year later that would have basically been £0 thanks to stamp duty changes/incentives.

Sometimes stuff doesn't go your way sadly.

Bunch of people went onto Furlough during covid, getting paid 80% of wage not to work, I didn't get this either.
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I feel you, I am a pharmacist and not a single day of furlough. Instead of isolating with good weather in the garden I was deployed to the busiest pharmacist to help with demands, lots of abuse from patients who did nothing all week but needed their medication URGENTLY lol
 
When we hit winter / cold weather I'll turn my gas boiler down to 55c and see how well our existing radiators can heat the house. It should give us a good idea of the viability of a heat pump for our house
 
mrgubby said:
When we hit winter / cold weather I'll turn my gas boiler down to 55c and see how well our existing radiators can heat the house. It should give us a good idea of the viability of a heat pump for our house
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Feels like doing it today :)

Will need to start my yearly heating maintance these few weeks
 
HungryHippos said:
No as 200sols says you simply won't have solar power to spare in the winter.

I've had days with basically 0 kWh generation.

Even the best day for me in December was like 10 kWh lol. I'll use that on the house in general mostly, solar doesn't suddenly make Heat Pumps better imo.
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But when you're capable of generating like 30+Kwh a day, essentially all your hot water will be virtuall free won't it ?
 
mrgubby said:
When we hit winter / cold weather I'll turn my gas boiler down to 55c and see how well our existing radiators can heat the house. It should give us a good idea of the viability of a heat pump for our house
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Sounds like a good idea, I may be doing the same regardless as the boiler is on its last legs if we don't get a quote soon.
 
It's a good idea to do anyway, since your condensing boiler only condenses with a low enough return temp. Boilers running 65c+ won't be running efficiently.
 
Nutty667 said:
Octopus quoting me £4,528 now including the £7.5K grant.. Why soo much higher than what others have been quoted? :confused:
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Are you sure it's including grant at £7.5K and not the old £5k figure?

Does seem steep, will depend a little on what they need to do I think but I'd be wanting to know why it's more expensive than most other quotes here.
 
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