Heat Pump Installation Awliscombe: Insulated Lofts, Walls As Built
All eight Awliscombe certificates we read carry at least 200 millimetres of loft insulation, and six record a wall built with no insulation at all. Heat pump installation Awliscombe is designed around a room-by-room heat loss survey of the property as it stands.
James and the team provided a first rate end to end service, our old oil boiler failed on Good Friday and within 3/4 weeks we were up and running with a new energy efficient air source heating system. Totally recommend Eco Pro Renewables Ltd to anyone who asks
James Stalker, owner
NAPIT MCS assessor
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What your Awliscombe installation includes
The price you agree carries all of this. An Awliscombe installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and what it produces. Each room measured on its own, and out of that total comes the output figure, the radiator schedule, the flow temperature and the cylinder specification.
- The outdoor unit and its cylinder. A heat pump chosen for this property outside, and indoors a heat pump cylinder that turns up already plumbed, sized against the hot water this household calls on in one go.
- Radiator work only where the schedule names it. A room behind bare sandstone sometimes wants a larger emitter; the room next to it behind a filled cavity usually keeps what is already on the wall.
- Pipework, electrics and the base the unit stands on. The base holds it clear of wet ground, and the MCS sound calculation settles where it sits before anything is dug.
- Commissioning and optimisation. The unit is balanced against the finished system and the hot water timing is set with you, so nothing is handed over sitting on a factory setting.
- The grant paperwork. We make the claim and take the award off the quote, so there is nothing at your end to file or chase.
- Handover and aftercare. You get walked through the controls on the day, and the yearly service afterwards comes from the same people who designed and fitted it.
Underfloor heating sits inside the same quote, and the low flow temperatures it wants are the ones this system runs at anyway.
Air source heat pump installation Awliscombe: lofts at 200 millimetres, walls as built
We read eight energy certificates across two Awliscombe postcodes, from Church Hill and the Old Rectory out to a bungalow at Brookthorpe.
- Every one of them records at least 200 millimetres in the loft, and six record a wall put up with no insulation behind it.
Six of the eight run an oil boiler and radiators, one runs electric storage heaters and the eighth already has a heat pump.
- Oil boiler replacement in Awliscombe is the usual starting point, and our guide to replacing an oil boiler with a heat pump covers what the swap involves.
Exmouth is where we work from, on Exeter Road, and air to water heat pumps are all we install.
- We are MCS certified, and James has worked on heat pumps since 2010, with past 100 installations behind him.
- The way a design is put together sits on our air source heat pump installation page.
Why Awliscombe homeowners choose us
The A373 runs through the middle of the village, and six of the eight certificates we read record a wall built with no insulation. The heat pump installer Awliscombe owners want is the one who measures those rooms as they are, and the heat pump company Awliscombe homeowners call when a service falls due is that same person.
The owner runs your job.
- Your first visit, heat loss survey, design, commissioning and handover are James’s work, and an experienced two-man team does the fitting in between.
- Aftercare comes back to him too, so you talk to the engineer who assessed every room, with no department that has never seen your house. Our about page tells how he came into the trade.
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Your design is drawn by an MCS assessor.
- NAPIT contracts James to audit other installers’ heat pump work, which is a blunt way to learn where a system goes wrong and how to avoid it on yours.
Output comes from the rooms, not the square metres.
- Every room is logged separately, including the ones with a bare wall behind the plaster, and the unit is sized to what those rooms add up to.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Heat pumps for older properties in Awliscombe get the same treatment as a modern house, and an uninsulated wall simply raises the figure that room contributes.
- The longer answer is in heat pumps in old houses.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We file the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim and take the award off the price before your invoice is written.
- The install runs about a week, a Monday start with commissioning on the Thursday or Friday, and the same routine applies two miles east at heat pump installation in Honiton.
What homeowners say on Google
Boiler Upgrade Scheme Awliscombe: what comes off an oil home’s quote
Because we hold MCS certification, the claim is made for you and the award is already deducted when the quote arrives.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Awliscombe home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- On running costs: against cheap oil the saving is usually modest, and the bill stops following the tanker.
- Costs are broken down in air source heat pump costs in Devon.
Grant figures correct as of September 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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Swapping a fossil fuel or direct electric system for an air to water heat pump brings the Boiler Upgrade Scheme into play.
- An Awliscombe property heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000 on applications made by 31 March 2027, and £7,500 covers other eligible homes, including those on mains gas.
- Who the higher rate applies to is set out in our post on the off grid oil and LPG grant.
- 0% VAT on the installation runs to 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Awliscombe, and why
For the typical off-grid home the measured heat loss gives the size of unit, and the room figures show which radiators can stay as they are.
We choose the cylinder for your home, as we do the heat pump, and it usually arrives pre-plumbed with its valves and stats fitted.
We fit weather-compensating controls where they add value, and set them up at commissioning.
The specification follows the house, since we are not bound to one maker like big firms fixed on one or two.
For an air source heat pump Awliscombe properties can run through a whole winter, we often fit an Ideal outdoors, usually with a cylinder that reaches site pre-plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat stat already in place.
4 to 10 kilowatts covers most of what we measure. Ideal’s heat pumps are UK-manufactured, so a replacement part is quick to get hold of, which counts for more than badge loyalty in the middle of January.
Air to water heat pump installation Awliscombe: from the first knock to the handover
Four steps, from the first visit to the handover.
Free home visit
We come out, look at your property, answer your questions, and tell you honestly whether a heat pump is right for your home.
Book my free home assessmentYour heat loss survey and design
A full room-by-room heat loss survey and a designed system, with a fixed written scope and price. The survey is £250 plus VAT, and that fee is wiped from the final bill when you go ahead with the install.
Installation and commissioning
A clean MCS install, usually about a week start to finish, one or two jobs at a time, with the system properly commissioned and dialled in.
Handover and aftercare
We show you how it runs, and we are here afterwards, with servicing when it is due.
“Excellent service throughout would recommend Eco pro renewables. Very competitive prices and excellent communication. 10/10”
Andrew A. · Google review · five stars
Your guarantees
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IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance.
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On an Ideal unit, seven years of parts and labour are part of the package rather than an upgrade. Other makes bring their own cover. We send the warranty registration to the manufacturer at commissioning, so it runs from the first day the system is on.
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MCS certified, RECC and APHC member, NAPIT assessor, Ideal Heating partner.
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The grant paperwork handled for you, start to finish.
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Ongoing servicing when you need it, including years down the line. Heat pump servicing →
More recent projects
Exmouth
A 1930s six-bedroom home with 34 windows
The owners doubted a heat pump could heat an older, larger property. A detailed design running at a low 47 degrees, with seven radiators upgraded and the rest kept, proved it could, comfortably.
West Hill · Ottery St Mary
The job three installers said could not be done
The owners wanted their hot water cylinder relocated to the garage. Three previous companies refused. We redesigned the pipework and did it, on a 311m² home with uninsulated floors.
Newton Abbot
A period home others had written off
We redesigned and re-piped the entire heating system for low-temperature running, and added radiators to rooms that never had them. “Too old” is usually a design problem, not a dead end.
Our patch runs across East Devon, taking in Awliscombe, Honiton, Combe Raleigh, Ottery St Mary, Feniton, Whimple, Sidmouth, Exmouth and Woodbury.
Street, Somerset: three installers, three different answers. We designed it correctly.
Before calling us, this homeowner had already had two national installers and another company out, and been handed completely conflicting advice, one proposing an oversized 16kW system, another saying the property was not suitable for a heat pump at all. Our room-by-room heat loss survey showed the home was suitable, but nowhere near the 16kW that had been quoted. We sized it correctly, upgraded only the radiators that genuinely needed it, and fitted an Ideal Logic Air matched to the actual heat loss rather than the quote sheet.
Straight answers for Awliscombe homeowners
There is no list price. The figure follows the output, the radiator schedule and the cylinder, and all three come out of the survey, so an Awliscombe quote starts with a free home assessment and a fixed estimate written on the day.
Book my free home assessmentNo. Six of the eight Awliscombe certificates we read show a wall built with no insulation, and a system is designed for the property as it stands. Insulating later lowers what the rooms lose, and the survey tells you what difference it would actually make.
Book my free home assessmentSix of the eight Awliscombe certificates we read run an oil boiler. A property can qualify for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme’s £9,000 rate when it runs on oil or LPG and has no mains gas connection, on applications made by 31 March 2027. Other eligible homes can qualify for £7,500.
Book my free home assessmentSome rooms will, rarely all of them. The survey works out what each room loses and what its radiator can give at a heat pump’s lower flow temperature, and any radiator that falls short is named, sized and priced into the Awliscombe quote before an order goes in.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week. Installs begin on a Monday and are commissioned on the Thursday or Friday, with one or two jobs running at a time, and a return visit to Awliscombe is a short run from Exeter Road.
Book my free home assessmentThat is what the design is for. The parish runs up into the Blackdown Hills, so an Awliscombe survey sizes the system against the coldest conditions the property sees rather than an average, and every room is measured before a figure is quoted.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Awliscombe
No estimate here is written from a floor plan. James goes to the Awliscombe property, works through the rooms with you, and leaves a fixed figure before he drives off.
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“We had an excellent 10/10 experience with James and would highly recommend him. … Communication was outstanding throughout, he responded quickly and always provided clear explanations whenever we had questions.”
Georgie S. · Google review · five stars
Want to talk it over before you book? Ring 01395 202030. James owns the company and answers that line himself, so you are not routed through a call centre. The email address and the enquiry form both sit on our contact page.
