Right, so our boiler has decided to go to the scrap heap in the sky which has us in a rather large dilema. A replacement boiler is going to be around 3k (oh joy) or the alternative is go absolutely mad, get an air source heat pump and solar/battery array installed and hope for a payback of less than 20 years. This would effectively mean us removing gas from the property altogether and moving over to fully electric.
The question i have is, does anyone have an air source heatpump in an older house and whats ytour experience with them.
Cheers
I don't have one yet but have done some research as one way or another I am ditching gas when the boiler is end of life.
before you even consider one make sure your house insulation is really good
make sure you do not have microbore pipes
you may need to replace your radiators (it depends)
underfloor heating works better than radiators as I understand it.
ASHP are brilliant in new builds and they can work in retrofits BUT if you don't do it right you can end up very dissapointed. I don't know for certain but I would wager any council based schemes to trial were half assed.
as for what you have read about them........ not all info sources are equal. I knew our press were shocking but over the last 3 years , getting solar and an EV my eyes have been opened to just how bad some of our gutter press is, especially WRT renewable energy and things like EVs. they have a tirade of miss information and half truths against them and always fail to cover the positives.
that said....... in this case you can't just blindly get one you need to do the prep first and as you are in need right now, it may be worth giving a miss this time.
(solar and battery however..... if you can afford it, and are not moving house in the next 7 years ish and you house does not need reroofing any time soon...... let's just say I will never not have solar and battery now, so I would say do those and maybe get a new gas boiler for now but next time you decorate start to prep for something better next time.)