What will you do when your boiler breaks?

[Jurgmee]

Genuine question if people are considering getting a heat pump. If so will you be applying for a grant.

Owning an elderly detached rural house, I doubt a heat pump would be much use. I've spent 10 years replacing doors, windows, roof, loft insulation etc so it isn't a cold house but it's probably still not good enough.

I have an unheated downstairs loo and intend to try heated electric wallpaper in there.

I use the housing association's urgent repairs portal. Sad as I was to have to give up my own place, I've got to say I LOVE this aspect of being a tenant!

Social landlords are under pressure to install heat pumps in new builds but, I'm glad to say, there's no chance they'll be converting existing gas-heated properties. I like my heating & hot water to be reliably warm enough.

Air Source Heat Pumps can be great in homes that have been designed with them planned in from the start, and sometimes in houses originally designed with other heating systems if there is the capacity for the necessary insulation and space requirements. They need both the indoor and outdoor space to be suitable as well as all the doors windows and walls being suitable.

It is a misconception and not at all true that you'll be pressured to get one if your existing gas boiler dies. There is no ban on new gas boilers for existing properties. Only houses built after 2025 are not allowed to be built with gas central heating. If your gas central heating needs replacing you can replace it with a new gas system.

Our house is unsuitable for an ASHP, but our gas boiler is only 8 years old and perfectly healthy and is serviced every year so will hopefully last a long time.

I will.not get a heat pump. My friends did ... absolutely useless when it is really cold.

Absolutely would not even consider a heat pump! They are useless, not user friendly at all.

My boiler did go last year. I spent 8k on a new one being installed because our house is an old Victorian one and ASHP don't work well unless you have a new air tight container of a house, by all accounts.