Heat Pump Grant Devon: Claim Up to £9,000 Through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
The heat pump grant in Devon is worth £7,500, or £9,000 if your home runs on oil or LPG, and the higher rate runs to 31 March 2027. Eco Pro Renewables applies for you and takes it off the invoice, so you never pay it and claim it back.
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What’s included when Eco Pro claims your heat pump grant
Claiming the grant runs alongside the installation, as one process from start to finish.
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The heat loss survey measures every room before anyone talks about numbers: wall construction, glazing, room use, and the fuel type that decides which grant rate applies. That survey sets the kilowatt figure, the radiator schedule and the flow temperature, and confirms whether your property sits on the standard £7,500 rate or the off-grid £9,000 rate.
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Because Eco Pro is an MCS-certified installation company, we file the Boiler Upgrade Scheme application on your behalf and take it straight off the invoice. You never pay the grant upfront and claim it back, and you never fill in the paperwork yourself.
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MCS covers more than the grant claim: it sets how a heat pump is sized, installed and commissioned, so the same certification stands behind the installation work James designs for your home.
Do you qualify: off-grid oil and LPG homes in Devon
Three things decide it. The grant takes £9,000 off the installation cost, deducted before your invoice is raised.
- You own the property.
- Your current heating runs on oil or LPG, with no mains gas connection.
- You’re switching from an oil boiler to a heat pump, rather than another fossil-fuel system.
One rule change matters more than most homeowners realise. Since 28 April 2026, a valid EPC is no longer a strict requirement to apply, and alternative evidence about the property can be used instead.
- For the stone, cob and solid-wall homes common around Ottery St Mary and the villages west of Honiton, that removes a barrier: plenty of older Devon properties never had a current EPC standing between them and the grant.
- We still size your system by measuring every room.
- The rule change stops a paperwork technicality ruling out a good candidate before we’ve looked at the house.
Why oil and LPG homes get the higher amount
Ofgem’s energy price cap applies to gas and electricity default tariffs. It has never covered heating oil or LPG, so a price spike at the tank lands on the household directly, with no ceiling and no warning built in.
- The extra £1,500 in the Boiler Upgrade Scheme exists because off-grid households carry a cost exposure that mains gas customers don’t.
- The South West already has the highest share of off-gas-grid homes of any English region, 24% of households against a much lower Great Britain average, and Devon sits well inside that pattern.
For a household checking the oil gauge before booking a delivery, or deciding whether to fill up before the price moves again, that’s who the higher rate exists for. A neighbour a few streets away on mains gas in Exeter still qualifies, at the standard £7,500 rate.
Why the timing matters now
Two real deadlines land on the same date, 31 March 2027. The £9,000 rate for oil and LPG homes ends then, and heat pump installation reverts from 0% VAT to the reduced 5% rate the day after.
- Neither is the scheme itself ending: the Boiler Upgrade Scheme now runs to 2030 under the rules that came into force in April 2026.
- It’s specifically the off-grid uplift and the VAT relief that are time-limited, and both happen to expire together.
A free home assessment booked now leaves time for the heat loss survey and the installation to land inside both windows.
What the heat pump grant doesn’t do
The grant lowers what you pay upfront. It doesn’t guarantee a specific saving on your bills every year, and anyone promising an exact figure is overselling it.
Nesta’s research on oil-heated households switching under the higher grant rate put the saving at over £650 a year for a medium-sized home, based on the energy price cap and oil prices at the time of that research.
- Oil prices move and tariffs move, and that figure will narrow if oil gets cheaper.
- For the real installed costs behind these numbers in Devon, the cost breakdown covers what a typical job looks like after the grant is applied.
Oil’s exposure doesn’t move: no price cap, a tank that needs watching, and a delivery that can turn up late in a cold snap.
- For most of our Devon customers, that’s the return that matters: steadier running costs and one less thing to manage every winter, on top of whatever the pounds-and-pence saving turns out to be.
Grant support across East Devon
We currently cover 70 towns and villages, from Exmouth, Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton out into Mid Devon, Teignbridge, Somerset and Dorset, and the grant works the same way in every one of them: assessed against your property. Closer to the Blackdown Hills side of the county, the same oil and LPG uplift applies to heat pump installs in Honiton as it does anywhere else on our patch.
East Devon
- Awliscombe
- Axminster
- Aylesbeare
- Beer
- Branscombe
- Broadclyst
- Budleigh Salterton
- Clyst St Mary
- Colaton Raleigh
- Colyton
- Cranbrook
- Dunkeswell
- East Budleigh
- Exmouth
- Exton
- Feniton
- Honiton
- Kilmington
- Lympstone
- Newton Poppleford
- Otterton
- Ottery St Mary
- Payhembury
- Rockbeare
- Seaton
- Sidbury
- Sidmouth
- Tipton St John
- Uplyme
- West Hill
- Whimple
- Woodbury
- Woodbury Salterton
Teignbridge
Mid Devon
Wherever you are on the map, the qualifying question is the same: what’s currently heating your home, and is it connected to the gas grid.
Out towards heat pump installs in Exeter, mains gas is more common through the city itself, but plenty of the outlying parishes and older streets still run on oil, and those properties qualify for the £9,000 rate the same as a village further out.
Why Devon homeowners choose Eco Pro for their heat pump grant install
Any installer can read you the grant figures. James will tell you whether your specific house will run well on a heat pump, and he’s still answering the phone two winters after your install.
James applies for your grant and runs your job himself.
- You deal with him from the first visit through commissioning, handover and aftercare.
- Once the grant is paid and the system is running, help still comes from James rather than salespeople or a call centre.
Your assessor also inspects other companies’ work.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, judging other installers’ heat pump jobs against the national standard, so the standard he designs to is the one he holds everyone else to as well.
Sizing comes from measurement.
- Every wall and room gets recorded at the heat loss survey before a kilowatt figure or a grant tier gets confirmed.
Older and off-grid Devon properties get taken on.
- Stone, cob and solid-wall homes that another installer has called unsuitable are the housing stock James designs for.
The grant comes off your invoice before you pay it.
- Eco Pro handles the claim, the paperwork and the reimbursement.
Ideal units carry seven years of parts and labour.
- Eco Pro registers the manufacturer warranty at commissioning on every unit it installs, and any non-Ideal unit keeps its maker’s own warranty.
- The IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance come with every installation.
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How much is the heat pump grant worth in Devon
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 towards an air-to-water heat pump on a home replacing a fossil-fuel or direct-electric heating system.
- If your Devon property is off the gas grid and currently heats on oil or LPG, the rate rises to £9,000.
- That higher figure has applied since 21 July 2026 and is due to end on 31 March 2027, so it’s live today.
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Because Eco Pro is an MCS-certified installation company, we apply for your grant. Once your heat loss survey confirms the system size and your fuel type puts you on the standard or the off-grid rate, we file the application ourselves and the grant comes straight off your invoice.
Neither figure is automatic. Your fuel type, ownership and the property itself all get checked before a number applies to your job. We confirm which tier you sit in during the free home assessment.
The kit we fit for a grant-eligible install, and why
Not every heat pump qualifies for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
Properly measured, most Devon properties land in the 4 to 10 kilowatt range, and James sizes the unit, whichever make it is, to that measured figure.
He usually pairs it with a cylinder that arrives pre-plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out already fitted, which is what lets a subcontractor team commission it reliably in a single day.
James sets the controls up as part of commissioning, with weather compensation where the system benefits from it.
Air-to-air units sit on their own lower £2,500 rate and cannot reach £9,000. We fit air-to-water only. James picks the unit for each property, Ideal often among them, and each one we fit is air-to-water by design, which is why it qualifies for the grant.
Need something outside that range? The heat loss survey shows it, and James adjusts both the kit and the design to match.
How it works, from free visit to installed heat pump
Four steps, and the first one is free.
Free home assessment
James visits, looks at your current heating and your property, and tells you honestly whether a heat pump is a good fit, with an estimate on the spot.
Heat loss survey and design
£250 plus VAT, waived in full if you go ahead with the install. This confirms your fuel type and off-grid status against the grant, alongside unit sizing, the radiator schedule and flow temperatures.
Grant application and installation
We file your Boiler Upgrade Scheme application and deduct it from your invoice before we’re on site, typically starting a Monday and commissioning by Thursday or Friday.
Handover and aftercare
After commissioning you call James directly, and your heat pump’s manufacturer warranty, from Ideal or another maker, is already registered.
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Your guarantees on a Devon heat pump grant install
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Every installation carries the IWA workmanship warranty and deposit insurance, plus the manufacturer’s own cover.
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We put that cover on record with the manufacturer during the commissioning visit, and on an Ideal unit it means seven years of parts and labour.
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We’re MCS certified, RECC and APHC members, signed up to the TSI Approved Code, NAPIT registered, and an Ideal Heating partner installer.
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James is also a freelance NAPIT MCS assessor, auditing other installers’ heat pump work, so the standard he designs your system to is the same one he checks other companies against.
More recent projects: Street, Somerset
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 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.
By the time the owner of this Somerset property called Eco Pro, they had already sat through visits from three heating companies, two of them national names, and come away with contradictory advice. One installer proposed a 16 kilowatt heat pump. Another said the house couldn’t take a heat pump at all.
A room-by-room heat loss survey settled it. The property was a good fit, and its real heat loss sat well under 16 kilowatts. James replaced the oil boiler with an Ideal Logic Air, the unit he chose for this house, sized to the survey, and applied the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant that was in force at the time, £7,500, deducted before the invoice was raised.
Frequently asked questions
Homeowners in England and Wales replacing a fossil-fuel or direct-electric heating system with an eligible heat pump, installed by an MCS-certified company. Devon homes on oil or LPG get the higher £9,000 rate; everyone else eligible gets £7,500. We confirm which rate applies at your free assessment.
Book my free home assessmentYes, if you own the property and you’re replacing oil, LPG or another qualifying fossil-fuel system. Eco Pro Renewables applies for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme on your behalf and deducts it from your invoice.
Book my free home assessmentYou don’t apply yourself. Once your heat loss survey confirms the system and your fuel type, we submit the application as your MCS-certified installer, and the grant comes off your invoice before it’s raised.
Book my free home assessmentThe scheme itself runs to 2030. The higher £9,000 rate for oil and LPG homes, and the 0% VAT on installation, both end on 31 March 2027.
Book my free home assessmentIt’s installer-led: your MCS-certified installer applies, the amount is confirmed against your property and fuel type, and it’s subtracted from your invoice.
Book my free home assessmentNo, not since 28 April 2026. A valid EPC used to be required; alternative evidence about the property is accepted instead now, which matters for older Devon homes that never had a recent EPC done.
Book my free home assessmentOil, LPG or another qualifying fossil-fuel or direct-electric system, replaced with an air-to-water heat pump. If your home is already on mains gas, you can still apply, at the standard £7,500 rate rather than the £9,000 off-grid rate.
Book my free home assessmentThe higher rate is specifically for off-grid properties on oil or LPG. Mains gas homes replacing their boiler with a heat pump still qualify for the standard £7,500.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment
Tell us what’s currently heating your home and roughly where in Devon you are, and we can usually tell you which grant rate applies before we’ve even visited. James calls you back personally.
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“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.”
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