Heat Pump Installation Aylesbeare: A Barn Is Not A Bungalow
On Sidmouth Road one house runs to 286 square metres and a bungalow along the same road to 62. Heat pump installation Aylesbeare begins with a room-by-room heat loss survey, and the kilowatt figure follows it.
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.
James Stalker, owner
NAPIT MCS assessor
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What your Aylesbeare installation includes
Nothing below is an extra that turns up later on an invoice. An Aylesbeare installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and the design. We measure every room, add the losses together, and let that total set the unit size, the radiator schedule, the flow temperature and the cylinder.
- The heat pump and the cylinder. An outdoor unit matched to the property, and a heat pump cylinder that arrives pre-plumbed, chosen against how much hot water the household draws at once.
- Radiator changes only where the schedule demands one. Rooms with enough radiator already keep what they have. The rest are listed with their sizes and their prices while you can still say no.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base. A base that keeps the unit out of standing water, and a position the MCS sound calculation settles before anything is dug.
- Commissioning and optimisation. The unit is tuned against the system it actually feeds instead of being left on factory settings, and the hot water timing is set with you at the end.
- The grant application. Ours to submit, and the award is gone from the price by the time you read a total.
- Handover and aftercare. We stay until the controls make sense to you, and afterwards we are the number you ring when a service is due.
Where a property already has underfloor heating, it is quoted in the same scope, and it takes to a heat pump’s low flow temperatures without argument.
Air source heat pump installation Aylesbeare: a parish of converted farm buildings
Houses here cluster in the village, in the hamlets, and in small groups on the sites of former farm buildings.
- We read eight certificates across Village Way and Sidmouth Road: three properties on oil, one on LPG, one on mains gas, two on electricity and one on a wood log boiler.
Recorded floor areas on that one road run from 62 square metres to 286, and the walls behind them include cob, stone, solid brick and uninsulated cavity.
- Oil boiler replacement in Aylesbeare is the job those certificates point to, and our guide to replacing an oil boiler with a heat pump covers what changes.
Eco Pro fits air to water heat pumps and nothing else, MCS certified, working out of Exmouth about twenty minutes away.
- James has been on heat pumps since 2010 with past 100 installations behind him, and the design method sits on our air source heat pump installation page.
Why Aylesbeare homeowners choose us
Out here properties sit on their own, down lanes and on old farm sites, so aftercare has to mean somebody who will drive out. The heat pump installer Aylesbeare owners meet on site is the one who draws the design, and the heat pump company Aylesbeare homeowners ring three winters later is the same one.
The owner runs your job.
- The survey visit and the design are James’s, and an experienced two-man crew works to his drawing. He commissions and hands over, then does the aftercare, which here means James himself.
- No call centre or sales department sits in front of him. Our about page has more.
Your designer also audits other installers.
Your designer also audits other installers.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, so oversized units and sloppy pipework are things he inspects for a living.
The rooms set the kilowatts, not the floor area.
- Every room is logged on its own and the total is what the unit is sized against, which is why a barn and a bungalow never share a figure.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Heat pumps for older properties in Aylesbeare get the same design work as a new build, and cob or solid brick shifts the numbers rather than the answer.
- There is more in what old walls change about a heat pump.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We put the Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim in and knock the award off the price.
- The install runs about a week, Monday start, Thursday or Friday commissioning, with aftercare twenty minutes away. The same applies at heat pump installation in West Hill, northeast of here toward Ottery St Mary.
What homeowners say on Google
Boiler Upgrade Scheme Aylesbeare: two rates, and the condition between them
We are MCS certified, so the claim is ours to lodge and the award comes off your quote rather than being repaid to you later.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Aylesbeare home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- Against cheap oil the saving is usually modest, and what changes is a heating bill that stops moving with the tanker price.
- Figures sit on our Devon heat pump cost page.
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 pays towards an air to water heat pump replacing fossil fuel or direct electric heating. Other eligible homes, mains gas included, sit at £7,500.
- Oil or LPG heating with no mains gas connection at the address can qualify a property for £9,000, on applications made by 31 March 2027.
- Which rate fits which property is set out in our post on the off grid oil and LPG grant.
- The installation itself carries 0% VAT up to 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Aylesbeare, 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.
Nearly every design we draw lands on two components, a heat pump and its cylinder.
Whatever the barn conversion or the terrace needs, the air source heat pump Aylesbeare properties end up with is the make that suits it, often an Ideal, its cylinder delivered with filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat stat mounted.
The majority of what we size lands between 4 and 10 kilowatts. Ideal builds its units in the UK, one reason we fit them often: a part that fails in February is a phone call rather than a six week search.
Air to water heat pump installation Aylesbeare: what each visit is for
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.
“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know. He always arrives on time with a smile on his face.”
Stephen M. · 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 ship with an Ideal unit, and other makes bring cover of their own. Either way we register the warranty at commissioning, so it is live before we drive away.
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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.
Our working area is East Devon: Aylesbeare, West Hill, Ottery St Mary, Newton Poppleford, Woodbury, Lympstone, Exmouth, Sidmouth 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 Aylesbeare homeowners want to know first
There is no list price, and a parish whose properties run from 62 to 286 square metres is the reason why. The figure follows the rooms, the radiators and the hot water demand, so an Aylesbeare quote starts with a free home assessment and a fixed estimate on the day.
Book my free home assessmentIt turns on what is in the tank: three of the eight Aylesbeare certificates we read record oil, one LPG and one mains gas. Under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000 on applications made by 31 March 2027, while mains gas and other eligible homes come in at £7,500.
Book my free home assessmentUsually yes. Aylesbeare clusters partly on the sites of former farm buildings, and one of the eight certificates we read runs to 286 square metres on oil. A building on that scale is designed around its volume and the state of its walls, not its footprint. The heat loss survey settles the unit and the radiator schedule together.
Book my free home assessmentSome rooms do, most do not. A heat pump runs at a lower flow temperature, so any radiator that cannot deliver its room’s heat loss at that temperature gets upsized. The survey names those rooms, and the cost of the changes sits in the Aylesbeare quote before you commit to anything.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week. Installations typically start on a Monday and commission on the Thursday or Friday, we run one or two jobs at a time, and Aylesbeare is around twenty minutes from Exmouth if something needs a second visit.
Book my free home assessmentThat is what the design exists for. The system is sized against the coldest conditions the property has to handle, an exposed plot near the common included, and the flow temperature and radiator schedule are set so each Aylesbeare room holds temperature in the worst week rather than the average one.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Aylesbeare
An Aylesbeare enquiry starts with James at the property: he measures up, answers what you put to him, and leaves a fixed estimate the same day.
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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
Happier on the phone? Ring 01395 202030 and James answers it himself. If writing suits you better, the enquiry form and the email address sit on our contact page.
