Heat Pump Installation Colaton Raleigh: Solid Ground Under The Unit
This village sits on the Otter’s valley floor, where ground that holds water in winter is no place for an outdoor unit. Heat pump installation Colaton Raleigh begins with a room-by-room heat loss survey and a base built for the plot it stands on.
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 Colaton Raleigh installation includes
Everything below is inside the quoted price from day one, never added on later. A Colaton Raleigh installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and the design. We log what each room loses, then draw the system from that total, down to the radiator schedule and the cylinder your hot water demand calls for.
- The outdoor unit and its cylinder. A heat pump matched to the house, plus a heat pump cylinder that arrives pre-plumbed and is chosen against how much hot water the household draws in a morning.
- Radiator work only where the schedule asks for it. Rooms with enough surface already keep what they have, and anything that has to change is named and priced before an order goes in.
- Pipework, electrics and the groundwork. On a valley floor the last of those earns its place: the base holds the unit clear of standing water, in a position the MCS sound calculation supports.
- Commissioning and setting up. Flow temperature and the hot water schedule are set against the finished system and against how you actually live, never left on factory defaults.
- The grant paperwork. We lodge the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim, and the award is off your quote rather than something you chase afterwards.
- Handover and servicing. You are taken through the controls until they make sense, and the people who service the system later are the people who fitted it.
If there is underfloor heating in the property, it goes into the same quoted scope and runs comfortably at heat pump flow temperatures.
Air source heat pump installation Colaton Raleigh: a valley floor decides the groundwork
The village runs along the B3178 between Newton Poppleford and East Budleigh, with the River Otter to the east and the pebblebed common rising to the west.
- Devon County Council’s flood investigation report records eight properties flooded internally here on 9 May 2023, and eleven in November 2012.
- Ground like that decides what an outdoor unit can safely stand on.
Church Road and Exmouth Road carry listed cottages of plastered cob on stone rubble footings under thatch, so where the unit stands and how the pipework reaches it get settled before kit is ordered.
- Where the boiler burns oil, our guide to replacing an oil boiler with a heat pump sets out what oil boiler replacement in Colaton Raleigh changes.
We are the MCS certified air to water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth, seven and a half miles away by road.
- James has fitted heat pumps and nothing else since 2010, with past 100 installations behind him.
- There is a fuller account of the design work on our air source heat pump installation page.
Why Colaton Raleigh homeowners choose us
Outside space here runs from a yard behind a cottage to a paddock behind a farmhouse, and that changes an install before the kit does. Ask the heat pump installer Colaton Raleigh owners let onto the plot to stand where the unit will go, and the heat pump company Colaton Raleigh homeowners ring afterwards is James himself.
The owner runs your job.
- He runs the first visit, the survey and the design, and two-man teams install to his drawings. Commissioning and handover come back to him, and he keeps the aftercare, so you reach the man who knows the setup.
- How James came to heat pumps is on our about page.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
He assesses other installers for a living.
He assesses other installers for a living.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, so the standard he designs to is the one he holds other people’s work against.
The survey sets the size, not the floor area.
- Every room is logged on its own, and the kilowatt figure is what those rooms add up to, which is how two houses of the same size end up with different units.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Heat pumps for older properties in Colaton Raleigh follow the same design process as a new build, and cob or stone shifts the numbers rather than the answer.
- Heat pumps in old houses goes into it properly.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We submit the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim and take the award off the invoice before you see it.
- On site it runs about a week, Monday start, commissioning Thursday or Friday, one or two jobs at a time. Heat pump installation in Newton Poppleford, the next village north, works the same way.
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Boiler Upgrade Scheme Colaton Raleigh: mains gas here changes the figure
With no mains gas connection and oil or LPG in the tank, a property can qualify for £9,000 on applications made by 31 March 2027, and other eligible homes for £7,500.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Colaton Raleigh home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- Against cheap oil the saving is usually a modest one, and what changes is a bill that stops moving with the delivery price, as air source heat pump costs in Devon sets out.
Grant figures correct as of September 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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Replace a fossil fuel or direct electric system with an air to water heat pump and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays towards it.
- Which rate applies here depends on the address: five of the six certificates we read, on Church Road and Hawkerland Road, record a mains gas boiler, while one at Hawkerland records oil. Our post on the off grid oil and LPG grant unpicks the uplift.
- 0% VAT runs to 31 March 2027, and the grant claim is ours as MCS certified installers.
The kit we fit in Colaton Raleigh, 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 design we draw.
Our answer to the air source heat pump Colaton Raleigh properties need is the make that fits the house, Ideal more often than not, plus a pre-plumbed cylinder, its filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat stat fitted before it leaves the works.
4 to 10 kilowatts covers the great majority of what we design for. Ideal’s units are built in the UK, which shortens the wait when a part gives up, and that counts for more in February than any badge on the casing.
Air to water heat pump installation Colaton Raleigh: who turns up, and for what
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.
“We had an excellent 10/10 experience with James and would highly recommend him. He went above and beyond to help update the heating system in our current housing project. Communication was outstanding throughout, he responded quickly and always provided clear explanations whenever we had questions.”
Georgie S. · Google review · five stars
Your guarantees
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IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance.
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Ideal units carry seven years of parts and labour; other makes keep their own manufacturer cover. Either way, we send the maker the registration from our end at commissioning, so there is no card for you to post.
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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.
From Colaton Raleigh and Newton Poppleford we work out across East Devon to Otterton, Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Lympstone, Woodbury, West Hill, Ottery St Mary, Sidmouth and Honiton.
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.
What Colaton Raleigh homeowners ask before they book
No two quotes here land in the same place. The figure follows the radiator schedule, the cylinder and the pipework your property needs, so a Colaton Raleigh price starts with a free home assessment and a fixed estimate written at the kitchen table.
Book my free home assessmentWhether the gas main reaches you sets the rate: a Colaton Raleigh property on oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000 under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, on applications made by 31 March 2027. Other eligible homes can qualify for £7,500. The MCS certification the claim needs is ours, and the award comes off your quote.
Book my free home assessmentSomewhere the ground drains, somewhere the pipe run stays short, and somewhere the MCS sound calculation supports. On the Colaton Raleigh valley floor the base is built to hold the unit clear of standing water, and we settle the spot with you at the free home assessment.
Book my free home assessmentUsually yes. What thatch and a Grade II listing change in Colaton Raleigh is the route pipework takes and where the unit can reasonably sit, so we flag anything of that sort at the free home assessment and tell you what to ask East Devon District Council. The design itself comes from the rooms.
Book my free home assessmentSome rooms, rarely all of them. The survey compares what each room loses with what its radiator can give at a heat pump’s lower flow temperature, and any radiator that falls short goes into the Colaton Raleigh quote by size and price before an order is placed.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week. Installations typically start on a Monday and commission on the Thursday or Friday, one or two jobs at a time, and Colaton Raleigh is seven and a half miles from our door if anything needs a second visit.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Colaton Raleigh
James comes out himself. He walks the property, answers what you put to him, and leaves a fixed estimate for the Colaton Raleigh job behind before he goes.
Prefer to talk before you book? Ring 01395 202030 and you get James, the owner, not a call centre. There is an email address and an enquiry form on our contact page if you would rather write.
