Heat Pump Installation Moretonhampstead: Warm At 700 Feet And Higher
The town centre stands at 700 feet, and the parish climbs 400 feet higher within a short walk. Heat pump installation Moretonhampstead starts from a room-by-room heat loss survey, so the design answers your address rather than the town.
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 Moretonhampstead installation includes
A quote written the same afternoon has skipped the part that decides how the system behaves in January. Every Moretonhampstead installation we price covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. The wall build-up, the glazing, and the way each room actually gets used, all recorded before any kilowatt figure exists.
- The heat pump and its cylinder. An outdoor unit chosen for this house, and indoors a cylinder that arrives already plumbed and wired, sized on the baths and showers the house really runs.
- Radiator changes only where the numbers ask. A solid-walled cottage may want two or three larger emitters; a newer bungalow on the edge of town often wants none.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base. Unit position is settled against the MCS sound calculation before anything is ordered.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Flow temperature set to the design figure and hot water timing agreed with you, not left on a factory setting.
- The grant application. We lodge it with Ofgem, and the award is off the price before your invoice is written.
- Handover and aftercare. We run through the controls on the day, and the number you rang first is the number that still answers a year on.
Underfloor heating is priced inside the same scope, and it takes a low flow temperature more easily than any radiator.
Heat pump installation Moretonhampstead: one parish, four hundred feet of difference
Moretonhampstead sits in Teignbridge, on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, with the whole parish inside the national park.
- The centre of town stands at 700 feet; walk out of it for a few minutes and the parish is past 1,100.
- That is a colder design temperature and a different kilowatt figure under one postal town.
At this height cold weather is the first question a heat pump has to answer, and the answer is arithmetic rather than reassurance: the design temperature for your address, then a system sized to meet it.
- Our guide to how heat pumps perform in winter sets out the method.
James Stalker owns the company and does the design work himself.
- MCS certified, air-to-water only, on heat pumps since 2010 with past 100 installations behind him.
- The process is laid out on our air source heat pump installation page.
Why Moretonhampstead homeowners choose us
Choosing a heat pump installer Moretonhampstead homeowners can rely on comes down to two questions: what got measured before the price was written, and who picks up in February. With a heat pump company Moretonhampstead owners can ring directly, both come back to the same person.
The owner runs your job.
- James prices your system after designing it, keeps an eye on the fitters, then does the commissioning and the handover.
- For aftercare you come back to him, with no call centre or sales desk between you and the man who knows the pipework. See the about page for more.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
James inspects other installers’ work as a freelance MCS assessor contracted by NAPIT, which is a blunt education in the ways a system gets specified wrong.
James inspects other installers’ work as a freelance MCS assessor contracted by NAPIT, which is a blunt education in the ways a system gets specified wrong.
- At 700 feet in town and past 1,100 up the parish, he fixes the design temperature at your own address before sizing a unit.
Sizing comes from measurement.
- Every room, window and wall build-up is recorded before a kilowatt figure is named, on The Square and a mile up the lane alike.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Solid walls and a roof built long before insulation change the design, not the answer, and a house turned down elsewhere has usually met a shortcut instead of a survey.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We lodge the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim and strip it out of the invoice.
- Work runs about a week, a Monday start and commissioning on the Thursday or Friday, and aftercare comes back up the same road: we also cover heat pump installation in Bovey Tracey, down the A382.
What homeowners say on Google
Boiler Upgrade Scheme Moretonhampstead: what the grant takes off
We are MCS certified, so we apply and deduct it from your quote: you never pay the grant and claim it back.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Moretonhampstead home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- On running costs we are straight: the saving against cheap oil is usually modest.
- Our air source heat pump cost guide has the rest.
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 system.
- Other eligible homes, mains gas included, can qualify for £7,500.
- Many properties around the town run on oil or LPG, and a home off the gas grid on oil or LPG can qualify for £9,000, on applications lodged by 31 March 2027.
- The uplift itself is unpacked in our off-grid oil and LPG grant post.
- 0% VAT on the installation runs to the same date.
The kit we fit in Moretonhampstead, 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.
We are tied to no single manufacturer, so the air source heat pump Moretonhampstead homes take is the one that suits each house, often an Ideal, paired with a cylinder that arrives already plumbed and wired: filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted.
Ideal builds its units in the UK, and 4 to 10 kilowatts covers most properties we design for. UK manufacture and UK parts stock: that is the difference between a February repair taking days and taking weeks.
Air source heat pump installation Moretonhampstead, from free visit to 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.
“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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Seven years of parts and labour come with an Ideal unit while other makes carry their own cover; in every case we are the ones who register it at commissioning.
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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 Teignbridge and the eastern edge of Dartmoor, and on into East Devon, including Moretonhampstead, Bovey Tracey, Dunsford, Chudleigh, Newton Abbot, Exmouth, Ottery St Mary, Sidmouth and Honiton. Chagford, made a stannary town in 1305, keeps granite cottages around The Square, and we measure those walls room by room for heat pumps in Chagford.
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 Moretonhampstead callers ask before they book
An air to water heat pump installation Moretonhampstead quote follows the property, its radiators and its hot water demand, which is why we open with a free home assessment and a fixed estimate instead of a price list.
Book my free home assessmentYes, once the design temperature is right. The air source heat pumps Moretonhampstead properties take are sized from the heat loss survey, so a property on the high ground above the town and a house on The Square get different systems for the same reason.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme is the heat pump grant Moretonhampstead owners ask about. A Moretonhampstead home off the gas grid on oil or LPG can qualify for £9,000, and other eligible homes, mains gas included, for £7,500. Applications have to be lodged by 31 March 2027.
Book my free home assessmentUsually. Solid walls hold and release heat differently from a modern cavity, so the survey carries more weight in Moretonhampstead, not less. Where a property sits in the conservation area, we flag it at the free home assessment so you know what to check with the council.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes, and rarely all of them. A heat pump runs cooler than an oil boiler, so a few emitters in an older Moretonhampstead property may need to grow. The heat loss survey names which ones before you commit.
Book my free home assessmentYes, oil boiler replacement Moretonhampstead properties need is most of what we do. A heat pump picked for your house and a matched cylinder take over the heating and hot water, your oil or LPG tank goes out of use, and the grant is deducted before you are invoiced. The deliveries and the tank watching go with it.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Moretonhampstead
The first visit is James’s own. He looks over the house, gives you a straight answer on suitability, and leaves a fixed estimate in writing. We also cover heat pump installation in Dunsford, down the Teign valley toward Exeter.
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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
Would you rather put the questions to someone first? Ring 01395 202030 and the call goes to James, not to a switchboard. Every other route in is listed on our contact page.
