Heat Pump Installation Taunton: Somerset’s Biggest Town On Our Map
Taunton holds two heating stories at once: mains gas through the terraces, oil and LPG out in the villages around it. Heat pump installation Taunton opens with a room-by-room survey, the grant deducted upfront, sized for the property you actually have.
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.
James Stalker, owner
NAPIT MCS assessor
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What your Taunton installation includes
A heat pump that disappoints its owner was nearly always specified in a hurry. Every Taunton installation we quote covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. Wall construction, glazing and room use, recorded one room at a time, producing a kilowatt figure specific to your address.
- The heat pump and a matched cylinder. A heat pump outside picked for the building, a heat-pump-specific cylinder inside, sized to your household’s actual hot water use.
- Radiator changes only where the numbers ask for them. Written into your schedule before anything is bought.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base. Settled at the survey visit, unit position fixed by the MCS sound calculation.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Flow temperature and hot water timing agreed with you, not left on factory settings.
- The grant application. Filed by us, netted off before an invoice is raised.
- Handover and aftercare. After commissioning it’s the owner you ring, not a call centre, and the manufacturer warranty on the heat pump we fitted is registered for you.
Underfloor heating sits inside the same scope too, happy at these systems’ low flow temperatures.
Heat pump installation Taunton: terraces on gas, oil villages on every side
Taunton is Somerset’s biggest town on our patch, and its housing runs from terraces off North Street to postwar estates near the M5.
- Heat pump installation Taunton can’t be priced off one housing type the way a smaller village can.
North of the centre, around Kingston St Mary, many homes still heat on oil or LPG.
- South toward the Blackdown Hills, the Neroche villages sit in one of three wards recording almost 60% oil-heated homes.
We’re the MCS-certified air-to-water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth, and James has been on heat pumps since 2010, with past 100 installations behind him.
- See how we design an air source heat pump installation.
Why Taunton homeowners choose us
Plenty of installers in Taunton can give you a cheap quote; far fewer will still answer the phone two winters later. Kingston St Mary’s oil villages and North Street’s terraces get exactly the same follow-up call.
The owner runs your job.
- James assesses, designs, commissions and hands over, then covers the aftercare.
- Later calls reach him as the designer, and sales staff never come into it. The about page tells his story.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
Your designer inspects everybody else’s work.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, judging other installers’ heat pump work.
We size from measurement, not a postcode.
- Every room and wall type recorded before a kilowatt is specified, whichever ward you’re in.
Older and period properties welcome.
- A Georgian terrace near the centre holds heat nothing like a 1970s estate house, both designed accordingly.
We lodge the grant application and subtract it upfront, the job about a week on site.
We lodge the grant application and subtract it upfront, the job about a week on site.
- Closer to home, we also cover heat pump installation in Cullompton.
What homeowners say on Google
Grants and costs for Taunton homes
We apply for the grant and deduct it from your quote. You never pay the grant and reclaim it.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on your property, confirmed at the free home assessment.
On running costs, saving against cheap oil is usually modest: what changes first is no delivery, no tank to watch.
- More on getting off oil.
Grant figures correct as of August 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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The Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays towards an air-to-water heat pump replacing a fossil fuel system: £7,500 for most Taunton properties on mains gas, £9,000 for off-grid homes on oil or LPG, common around Kingston St Mary, by 31 March 2027.
- Taunton sits inside the scheme’s England and Wales area, and the property has to be yours for the higher rate to apply.
- 0% VAT applies too, through to 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Taunton, 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.
No manufacturer ties our hands, so James chooses the heat pump each property needs, Ideal in many cases, and usually a cylinder that turns up already plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted.
Ideal’s units are UK-made, so spares move fast, and the pre-plumbed cylinder saves a day on an older Taunton property. Need something different? The survey shows it.
How heat pump installation Taunton runs, from free visit to handover
Four steps, and the first one is free.
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.”
DJ G. · Google review · five stars
Your guarantees
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IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance.
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An Ideal comes with seven years of parts and labour, other makes with their own cover, and in both cases the registration is done by us 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 East Devon and over the Somerset border, including Taunton, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Ottery St Mary, Woodbury, Lympstone, Newton Poppleford, West Hill 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 Taunton callers ask before they book
That depends on the property’s size, its radiators and hot water setup, so every Taunton enquiry starts with a free home assessment, not a price list. Your heat loss survey produces the number you pay.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme: £7,500 once a fossil fuel system comes out. A Taunton property off the gas grid on oil or LPG can instead qualify for £9,000, on any application lodged by 31 March 2027.
Book my free home assessmentNo. It’s just past the 45-minute mark from Exmouth, 37 miles up the M5, but a Taunton job gets the same treatment as one five minutes down the road. Wellington, Hemyock and Chard sit nearer to Exmouth, and we cover all three.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week. We usually start on a Monday and commission on the Thursday or Friday, so your Taunton installation runs to a fixed timetable, not an open-ended one.
Book my free home assessmentYes, once it’s sized to the building, not guessed. The heat loss survey measures every room in your Taunton property, whichever village or ward you’re in.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes. A heat pump runs at a gentler flow temperature than a boiler, so a few radiators in an older Taunton property may need to grow. Your heat loss survey names them room by room.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Taunton
James walks your Taunton property and tells you plainly what he finds.
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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 over first? Ring 01395 202030, answered by the owner, not a call centre, even on a job at the edge of the area we cover. Our contact page has other ways to reach us.
