Heat Pump Installation Kilmington: Sited Where It Works, Sized To Your Rooms
The lanes here have not moved since the 1840s, so the unit position and the pipe run get agreed at the property, not off a plan. Heat pump installation Kilmington then sizes the system on what each room loses.
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 Kilmington installation includes
Every item below sits inside the quoted price. A Kilmington installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. Every room measured, every wall type recorded, then the unit size, radiator schedule, flow temperature and cylinder specification that follow from them.
- The heat pump and its cylinder. A heat pump outside chosen for the house, and a cylinder that arrives pre-plumbed, sized to the hot water the household actually draws in a morning.
- Radiator changes where the schedule needs them. The ones that have to grow are named, sized and priced before an order goes in, and most rooms keep what they already have.
- Pipework, electrics and the base outside. On a thatched or listed property the route a pipe takes matters as much as its length, so both are agreed before anyone starts work.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Balanced on site, left running at its own design flow temperature, hot water timed to the hours the house is awake.
- The grant application. Ours to file, and the award comes off the price rather than being repaid to you months later.
- Handover and aftercare. The controls get explained until they make sense, and servicing afterwards comes from the people who fitted the system.
Underfloor heating is quoted inside the same job, and it is the emitter that suits a heat pump’s low flow temperatures best of all.
Air source heat pump installation Kilmington: listed lanes, oil and LPG behind them
This parish holds thirty-three entries on the Historic England list, and only the church among them carries a star.
- The row at 4 to 6 The Hill is eighteenth century, plastered stone rubble under thatch; Old Cider Lodge on Silver Street is sixteenth century and built the same way.
Six energy certificates on The Hill, Silver Street and Whitford Road show granite, whinstone or sandstone in four of the six, two homes on oil, three on LPG, and no mains gas connection among them.
- Oil boiler replacement in Kilmington starts at one of those tanks, and replacing an oil boiler with a heat pump covers what changes inside.
Our base is Exeter Road in Exmouth, about forty minutes west, and we fit air to water heat pumps and nothing else.
- James Stalker started on them in 2010 and has past 100 installations to his name.
- The method behind that is set out on our air source heat pump installation page.
Why Kilmington homeowners choose us
The person who walks the property is the one who draws the design and answers for it on site. The heat pump installer Kilmington homeowners deal with on day one is the heat pump company Kilmington owners still have in the phone five winters later.
The owner runs your job.
- Your assessment and your design are James’s work, an experienced install team fits the system, and he commissions and hands over the finished system.
- The aftercare stays with him, so the person you speak to later understands your system. There is more on him on our about page.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
Your designer also audits other installers.
- NAPIT books James as a freelance MCS assessor, so part of his year is spent inspecting other companies’ heat pump work against the standard.
The size comes from the survey, not the floor area.
- Every room is measured on its own, and the kilowatt figure is the sum of what those rooms lose on a cold day.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Heat pumps for older properties in Kilmington are designed exactly as a new build would be, and stone or cob moves the numbers without changing the answer.
- Our post on heat pumps in old houses goes further.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- The Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim is ours to make, and the award is gone from the price before you see an invoice.
- The install runs about a week, a Monday start and commissioning on the Thursday or Friday. Heat pump installation in Axminster, under two miles away, runs the same way. Stockland belonged to Dorset until the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 and now sits on the East Devon side of the Blackdown Hills, where we fit air source heat pumps in Stockland as well.
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Boiler Upgrade Scheme Kilmington: which rate an off grid property gets
We hold MCS certification, which is what lets us take the award off your quote rather than leaving you to chase it back.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Kilmington home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- The honest line on running costs: against cheap oil the saving is usually modest.
- What goes for good is the tank, the delivery and the January guesswork.
Grant figures correct as of September 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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The Boiler Upgrade Scheme puts money towards an air to water heat pump that takes over from fossil fuel or direct electric heating.
- A property heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000 on an application made by 31 March 2027, and other eligible homes can qualify for £7,500.
- Our guide to the off grid oil and LPG grant goes through the conditions.
- The installation itself carries 0% VAT until 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Kilmington, 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 do most of the work.
Outside sits the air source heat pump Kilmington homes get from us, whichever make suits the house, often an Ideal; inside, a cylinder that arrives pre-plumbed, filter and diverter valve already fitted, which matters where the only cupboard is small and old.
4 to 10 kilowatts covers most of what we measure round here. An Ideal is made in the UK, so a part for one in January is a phone call rather than a wait, which is worth more than loyalty to a badge.
Air to water heat pump installation Kilmington: what each stage produces
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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Each heat pump we commission is registered with its manufacturer by us on the day, and from then Ideal cover their units’ parts and labour for seven years; other makes keep the cover their manufacturer sets. Our heat pump servicing keeps them running, including systems other companies installed.
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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 work right across East Devon, from Kilmington and Axminster to Seaton, Colyton, Beer, Honiton, Ottery St Mary, Sidmouth, Woodbury and Exmouth.
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.
Six questions we get asked in Kilmington
No two quotes match. What the radiators, the cylinder and the survey findings add up to decides the figure, so a Kilmington quote starts with a free home assessment and a fixed estimate written on the day.
Book my free home assessmentListing changes what has to be confirmed with East Devon District Council before anything is agreed, so that is the first thing we flag at the free home assessment on a listed Kilmington property. Sizing comes afterwards, off the heat loss survey, and follows the rooms as they are built rather than any assumption about listed stock.
Book my free home assessmentA Kilmington 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. None of the six energy certificates we read here shows a gas connection. We are MCS certified, so the award comes off your price.
Book my free home assessmentYes, when it has been designed for that house. The survey works out what every room loses on the coldest days a Kilmington winter produces, and the system is sized to that total rather than to the floor area or the age of the walls.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week from first fix to handover. A Monday start and Thursday or Friday commissioning is the usual shape, and with one or two jobs running at a time nobody in Kilmington waits while we finish somewhere else.
Book my free home assessmentA few rooms usually do. Lower flow temperatures mean a radiator has to give the same heat from cooler water, and the survey names the ones that cannot. Those are the only radiators that change in a Kilmington quote, and they are priced before you agree to anything.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Kilmington
James comes to the property himself, measures it, answers what you ask and leaves a fixed estimate behind. That is how a Kilmington enquiry starts.
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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
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