Heat pumps - yay or nay

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Government heat pump scheme misses first year target - BBC News

This BBC report says that the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (gives £5k grants) has had much lower uptake than expected.

Which left me wondering if that's just because no-one's really heard of the scheme, or because people don't want heat pumps. When our boiler died, I did start looking in to getting one, but was put off because they just don't sound suitable for older properties. Now I hope that the new boiler keeps going for years, so perhaps the technology will have matured by the next time I need to think about this personally.

But does anyone have one, and if so what's it like?

Or others who considered and rejected - why?

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We have a 1940s house and would quite like a heat pump.

However, we are a long way off despite having already spent about £15k on new windows, insulation, a new hot water tank and new radiators. Not even costed MVHR yet! Also need a new front door and more insulation in a couple of rooms. The £5k doesn't even help with any of that work.

It would make more of a difference if the government brought back the initiative to fund loft insulation and help people bring properties up to a better standard universally.