Air source heat pump

[StrongLegs]

Hi,

I wondered if anybody might have already had an air source heat pump fitted to an older house, and could tell us how much upheaval is involved?

We live in a detatched, 30' square, 1920s house with single skin walls, and not quite enough loft insulation. We have a pyramidal roof so it's not really that much use for solar panels.

The parking round he is very difficult, so any building work involves me doing a lot of careful booking of parking spaces with bins, and periodically getting fined by the council, because booking spaces with bins is not allowed.

One side of our house is on the boundary, so if we wanted to have external insulation fitted it would be massively disruptive to our immediate neighbours and would involve them modifying their car port to make space for our house becoming a bit wider.

We're currently paying for all renewable gas and electricity so we're technically carbon neutral, but I figure we will have to get our house sorted sometime soon, at least when our current boiler packs up.

I wondered if anyone might know how much work it is to have the conversion - not from reading about it, but from having actually lived through the experience?

Would we have to move out?

Thanks!

Unfortunately it’s going to cost a lot of money to go green, not many people will be able to afford it, I don’t know if it’s true, but without a lot of insulation fitted 90% of U.K. houses would be unsuitable for heat pump’s

How do you get a grant for this stuff? My loft insulation is very poor, barely there. We don’t have cavity walls, as it is an old house. We have a gas boiler but it’s been working fine for 30 years. I didn’t know there were grants.

@StrongLegs

UFH is underfloor heating.
TS is thermal store instead of a small amount of water at high temperature, or a combi boiler, we store more water at lower temperatures. A good explanation here:

mcdonaldwaterstorage.com/products/thermal-store/thermflow/

MVHR is mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, we have one these:

www.nuaire.co.uk/product-list-page/mrxbox-eco

The RW is a Rockwooll product code.

Thanks@Daftasabroom!

@Unphased in the grant page it says that we have to have the house fully insulated at the same time or we wouldn't be given the grant.

@daisypond I found out about the grants here: renewable-heat-calculator.service.gov.uk/Default.aspx
However, I've also phoned up a very experienced installation company and they said they haven't had any information from the government yet, so I think it's not ready to come through just yet. I joined their mailing list so I could be in with a chance.

One of the biggest things the government could do would to require homeowners to upgrade properties when undertaking any work requiring planning permission or building regulations.

@Daftasabroom yes I see what you mean. It works like that with fuse boxes, I believe.

@StrongLegs yes, electrics, and fire doors etc. as well.

It would be hilarious if we couldn't do anything to the house without doing everything that's needed to be up to date with the heating and insulation. The construction industry would have to really get its act together so as to rush round all the houses retrofitting all this stuff.

I still quite fancy having a pile driver in the garden.

I've installed internal insulation to a 1930's house plus loft insulation but have land do would use ground source (but decided to sell)

We have just moved into a 150 year old house and are going to fit external insulation. We'd like to go green and get a heat pump as we are on oil but I think we will see what the insulation does first.