Heat Pump Installation Tipton St John: Gas, Oil And Storage Heaters
One Tipton St John terrace runs on oil at one front door and electric heaters at the next. Heat pump installation Tipton St John starts with a room-by-room heat loss survey at your own address.
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.
James Stalker, owner
NAPIT MCS assessor
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What your Tipton St John installation includes
Two quotes for the same Tipton St John property can differ by thousands, usually because they are not quoting the same work. Ours covers all of this:
- The heat loss survey and design. Room by room, we record what each space loses before any kilowatt figure goes on paper.
- The heat pump and its cylinder. A heat pump matched to the house outdoors, and indoors a pre-plumbed cylinder chosen against what your household draws in a busy week.
- Radiator changes where the survey asks for them. A terraced cottage on one of the older rows may want two or three larger emitters, a Barton Orchard bungalow often none.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base. Where the unit stands, and how high its base sits, are settled on site with the MCS sound calculation.
- Commissioning and optimisation. The system is dialled in to its design flow temperature, and hot water timings are set to suit the household.
- The grant application. Filed by us, and subtracted from the total before you ever see an invoice.
- Handover and aftercare. An hour spent showing you how to drive it, and a direct line back to us afterwards.
Underfloor heating sits inside the same quote, and a heat pump drives it at the gentle flow temperature it was always designed for.
Air source heat pump installation Tipton St John: three fuels, one small village
Tipton St John sits on rising ground above the River Otter, and neighbouring properties here do not always burn the same fuel.
- Of ten certificates we read across Railway Terrace, Barton Paddocks, Barton Orchard, Ellacombe Cottages, Coombe Vale and the lanes around them, six were on mains gas, one on oil and three on electric heating.
That spread decides which grant rate applies, and how big the comfort gain is.
- Oil boiler replacement in Tipton St John is the familiar job; a house on storage heaters usually has the most to gain.
- More in our guide to replacing an oil boiler with a heat pump.
We are the MCS certified air-to-water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth, twenty minutes away by road.
- James has specialised in heat pumps since 2010, with past 100 installations behind him.
- The design process is set out in full on our air source heat pump installation page.
Why Tipton St John homeowners choose us
Six houses on this hillside can need six different designs. That is why the heat pump installer Tipton St John owners meet at the door should also be the heat pump company Tipton St John owners get afterwards.
The owner runs your job.
- First visit, design, commissioning and handover sit with James, and install teams he books regularly fit the system.
- The about page gives his background. Aftercare stays with James too, so a later question goes back to the person who drew the plans.
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Your designer audits other installers.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, so an oversized system is something he has seen up close rather than read about.
Sizing follows the measurements.
- Rooms, windows and wall build-ups are recorded first, and the kilowatt figure comes out of them.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Heat pumps for older properties in Tipton St John get the same process as a new bungalow, and solid walls change the design rather than the answer.
- Our guide to heat pumps in old houses sets out how.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We lodge the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim and subtract it before your invoice is raised.
- A Monday start usually means commissioning by Friday, with aftercare a short run from Exmouth. Heat pump installation in Ottery St Mary, the parish town up the road, runs the same way.
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Boiler Upgrade Scheme Tipton St John: gas, oil and electric all count
Six of those ten certificates record mains gas, and those properties fall under £7,500 rather than the higher rate. Our air source heat pump cost guide puts numbers around it.
Check if your home qualifies0% VAT applies to the installation until 31 March 2027, and our guide to the off grid oil and LPG grant covers the higher rate.
Eligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Tipton St John home qualifies.
- We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
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, so the gas, oil and storage heater properties here all count.
- £7,500 is the base figure, and a property heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000, on applications made by 31 March 2027.
- On running costs we are straight: against cheap oil the saving is usually modest, though a storage heater house has more to gain.
- No VAT is charged on the installation itself until 31 March 2027, and the grant comes off the same quote before you pay.
The kit we fit in Tipton St John, 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.
Big firms stick to one or two makes; the air source heat pump Tipton St John homes get from us is the unit that suits the house, often an Ideal, paired with a cylinder that arrives already plumbed: filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted at the factory.
4 to 10 kilowatts covers most Devon properties we measure, terrace or detached. Ideal builds its heat pumps in this country, which is why a spare part for one of theirs turns up in days rather than weeks.
Air to water heat pump installation Tipton St John: what actually happens
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.
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Your guarantees
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IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance.
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Parts and labour on an Ideal unit run to seven years here, and other makes carry a warranty of their own. We register the one that applies for you on commissioning day.
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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, including Tipton St John, 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.
Tipton St John questions we answer on the phone
It follows the property, its radiators and how it makes hot water, so every Tipton St John enquiry starts with a free home assessment and a fixed estimate rather than a price list. The heat loss survey then produces the real number.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme. An eligible Tipton St John property can qualify for £7,500, and one heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000, on applications made by 31 March 2027. We apply and deduct it from your quote.
Book my free home assessmentYes. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme counts electric among the heating systems it will help you replace, and three of the ten Tipton St John certificates we read record storage, room or portable electric heaters. Those properties usually see the biggest change in comfort, and the heat loss survey sets the design.
Book my free home assessmentAgainst a wall or gable with clear air around it, positioned by the MCS sound calculation so the level at a neighbour’s window stays inside the limit. On a low-lying Tipton St John plot the base is also built up to keep the unit clear of standing water. Both are settled at the free home assessment.
Book my free home assessmentSome, rarely all. A heat pump runs cooler than an oil or gas boiler, so certain rooms in an older Tipton St John cottage need a larger emitter to reach the same warmth. The heat loss survey names them room by room and prices them before you commit.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week on site. A Tipton St John job usually starts on the Monday and is commissioned Thursday or Friday, with one or two jobs running at a time so the same people see it through.
Book my free home assessmentStart with a look at your Tipton St John property
The first visit is James at your door in Tipton St John, reading the property for himself and leaving a fixed estimate before he goes.
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Rather talk it over first? Ring 01395 202030 and you are through to James, the owner, not a call centre. Our contact page lists the email address and the enquiry form as well.
