Heat Pump Installation Bampton: Limestone Terraces, No Two Walls Alike
Bampton’s terraces are limestone, and what sits behind that stone varies from one address to the next. Heat pump installation Bampton starts with a room-by-room heat loss survey of what those walls lose, and the grant comes off your quote upfront.
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 Bampton installation includes
Nothing on this list is an extra, and nothing on it gets skipped to make a price look better. Every Bampton installation we quote covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. Every room measured in turn, wall build-up and glazing recorded, ending in a kilowatt figure that belongs to your address alone.
- The heat pump and its cylinder. A unit outside matched to the house, a pre-plumbed heat pump cylinder inside, sized on the hot water the household really draws.
- Radiator changes only where the numbers ask. A stone terrace off Newton Square may want two or three bigger emitters; a newer bungalow up the hill often wants none.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base. Where the unit stands comes out of the MCS sound calculation, agreed at the free home assessment.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Flow temperature set against the design figure, hot water timing agreed with you on the day.
- The grant application. We file it, and the award comes off the price before an invoice reaches you.
- Handover and aftercare. The controls explained in plain English, then the same number to ring at the first service.
Underfloor heating is part of the same scope, and low flow temperatures suit it better than a boiler ever did.
Air source heat pump installation Bampton: limestone terraces at the pavement edge
The centre is two and three storey terraces in limestone with a pinkish grey cast, set straight on the pavement under slate roofs.
- Wall build-up varies from one certificate to the next along a single street, so what a property loses gets measured, never assumed.
Of the four Brook Street properties whose certificates we read, two are on oil boilers and two on electric heating.
- None was on mains gas, and a heating oil club covers the EX16 9 postcodes.
- Oil boiler replacement in Bampton is the ordinary job, and our guide to replacing an oil boiler with a heat pump explains what changes.
We are the MCS certified air-to-water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth, about fifty minutes south of the Batherm valley.
- James took up heat pumps in 2010 and has past 100 installations to his name.
- We set the whole design process out on the air source heat pump installation page.
Why Bampton homeowners choose us
The middle of Bampton lies in the Batherm floodplain, so on the low ground how high an outdoor base sits becomes a design question of its own. A heat pump installer Bampton owners meet on site settles that, and the heat pump company Bampton homeowners ring is the one that drew the design.
The owner runs your job.
- James does the assessment and the design, then deals with you through commissioning, handover and aftercare.
- A question once the system is running goes to James, who drew it, and nobody in sales sits in the way. You can learn more about him on the about page.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
Your designer audits other installers.
Your designer audits other installers.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, judging other firms’ heat pump work against the standard.
We size from measurement, not floor area.
- Every room is recorded before a kilowatt is named, Brook Street terrace or Frog Street cottage alike.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Heat pumps for older properties in Bampton get the same design process as a modern bungalow, and solid stone is a design question, not a refusal.
- Our guide to heat pumps in old houses works through it.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We file the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim and subtract it before your invoice is raised.
- Work starts on a Monday and is commissioned Thursday or Friday, with aftercare coming up the valley from Exmouth. Heat pump installation in Tiverton, seven miles south, works the same way.
What homeowners say on Google
Boiler Upgrade Scheme Bampton: what the grant pays here
We are MCS certified, so we apply for the grant and deduct it from your quote, which means you never pay it and claim it back.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Bampton home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- On running costs we are straight: against cheap oil the saving is usually modest, and the gain is a price that stops swinging.
- See our air source heat pump cost guide.
Grant figures correct as of September 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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The scheme pays towards an air-to-water heat pump replacing a fossil fuel or direct electric system.
- A Bampton property with no mains gas connection, heated by oil or LPG, can qualify for £9,000 on applications made by 31 March 2027, against £7,500 for other eligible homes.
- Our guide to the off grid oil and LPG grant explains the uplift.
- 0% VAT applies to the installation until that same date.
The kit we fit in Bampton, 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.
Two pieces of kit cover nearly every property.
An air source heat pump Bampton can rely on in a wet January is an outdoor unit picked from more than one manufacturer to suit that house, often an Ideal, paired with a cylinder that arrives already plumbed: filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted.
4 to 10 kilowatts is the usual band for a Bampton terrace. Spares for Ideal’s UK-made units move fast, which counts for something when you are fifty minutes from our door.
Air-to-water heat pump installation Bampton, in four steps
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.
“After comparing several quotes and gathering details I decided to go with Eco Pro after speaking with James and couldn’t be happier. Their design was really detailed, explained clearly and the heat pump works perfectly. Would definitely recommend and already booked in for a few of our other properties.”
DJ G. · Google review · five stars
Your guarantees
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IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance.
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For seven years, Ideal cover the parts and labour on their own units, and another make comes with its own maker’s warranty. Either way we register the warranty with the manufacturer as we commission.
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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.
We install across Mid Devon and East Devon, including Bampton, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Ottery St Mary, Woodbury, Lympstone, Newton Poppleford, West Hill and Honiton. Over the Somerset border, our Dulverton oil replacement page is for the Dulverton and Exmoor ward, where about four in ten homes heat with oil.
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.
Questions Bampton callers ask before the first visit
There is no list price. The figure follows the Bampton property: how big it is, what radiators are already on the wall, and how much hot water the household draws. The free home assessment ends with a fixed estimate in writing.
Book my free home assessmentIt turns on your gas supply rather than on the town. A Bampton property with no mains gas connection, heated by oil or LPG, can qualify for £9,000 under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, on an application made by 31 March 2027. Other eligible Bampton homes can qualify for £7,500, and we apply and deduct it from your quote.
Book my free home assessmentUsually yes. Solid stone in a Bampton terrace changes the design, not the answer, and the four Brook Street certificates we read record a mix: solid stone on some wall elements, cavity or insulated build-ups on others. The room-by-room heat loss survey settles what your property actually needs.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes. A heat pump runs cooler than an oil boiler, so a few radiators in a Bampton stone cottage may need to grow. The heat loss survey names which ones, room by room, before any work starts.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week for a Bampton job. We start on the Monday and commission Thursday or Friday, running one or two jobs at a time so yours gets full attention.
Book my free home assessmentApart from Brook Street, most streets in Bampton’s old centre are narrow, and the conservation area covering that centre holds 60 listed buildings. We flag the constraint at the free home assessment, fix the position with the MCS sound calculation, and tell you what to check with Mid Devon District Council.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Bampton
James walks your Bampton property himself, gives you the suitability answer there and then, and leaves a fixed estimate before he goes.
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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
Prefer to talk it through before booking? Ring 01395 202030 and it is James on the other end, not a call centre. The contact page has our email and the enquiry form if that suits you better.
