Heat Pump Installation Kennford: Four Miles From Exeter, a Different Fuel Map
Kennford has its own Exeter Road, and EPC records there show oil or electricity, not the mains gas a village this close to the city might suggest. Heat pump installation Kennford means measuring every wall type before we pick a heat pump.
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 Kennford installation includes
Cut a corner in the spec and a heat pump owner feels it for years. Every Kennford installation we quote covers this ground:
- The heat loss survey and design. Wall type, glazing and room use, recorded room by room, giving a kilowatt figure that’s yours alone.
- The heat pump and a matched cylinder. A unit outside chosen for the property’s heat loss, a heat pump specific cylinder inside, sized against your bathrooms.
- Radiator changes where the numbers ask for them. Often two or three on a solid cob wall, frequently none on a newer build a street away.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base. Agreed at the survey visit, the unit’s position fixed by the MCS sound calculation.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Flow temperature set against the design figure, weather compensation and hot water timing agreed with you.
- The grant application. Filing the claim is our job, netted off before you’re invoiced.
- Handover and aftercare. A plain English run through the controls, then the same number to ring for your first service.
Underfloor heating sits inside the same scope too, comfortable at the lower flow temperatures.
Heat pump installation Kennford: a village built for through traffic, not for mains gas
None of the road works through Kennford brought mains gas.
- Every address with an EPC record on Exeter Road runs on oil or electric heating, one a Beers Cottages end-terrace built from cob.
- More on getting off oil in a Devon property.
Out toward Bullers Hill, the pattern across rural Teignbridge holds too: oil and LPG, whatever a postcode’s closeness to a city suggests.
- Kennford itself sits outside the gas network.
- We also cover heat pump installation in Exminster, up the same road, where mains gas is real.
We’re the MCS-certified air-to-water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth.
- James Stalker has built heat pumps since 2010, sizing every job from a room-by-room heat loss survey, not a guess.
- See how we design an air source heat pump installation.
Why Kennford homeowners choose us
Four miles from Exeter, Kennford still runs mostly on oil and electricity, not the mains gas the postcode might suggest. What matters more than the lowest number on that quote is whether the installer still picks up two winters after the job’s finished.
The owner runs your job.
- Assessment, design, commissioning, handover and aftercare are all James; a trusted team does the fitting.
- A call about the system later reaches him, the person who knows it best. Our about page gives his background.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
Your designer inspects other installers’ work.
Your designer inspects other installers’ work.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, judging their heat pumps too.
Sizing comes from measurement, not the postcode.
- A cob cottage and a house nearby both get measured first, whatever the A38 suggests.
Older and period properties welcome.
- A solid cob wall behaves nothing like a cavity-walled infill, and both get designed properly.
The grant deducted upfront.
- We lodge the application ourselves, and aftercare runs up the A38 too, out to Kenton.
What homeowners say on Google
Heat pump installation Kennford: costs, and which grant applies
We apply and deduct it from your quote. You never pay the grant and reclaim it.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Kennford home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- On running costs we’re straight: savings against cheap oil are usually modest.
- More on the off-grid oil and LPG route.
Grant figures correct as of August 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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Under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, what you can claim depends on what your Kennford property burns.
- £7,500 for a home on mains gas, which Kennford’s EPC records don’t show.
- £9,000 for a property off the gas grid on oil or LPG, Kennford’s own position, on any application lodged on or before 31 March 2027.
- 0% VAT on qualifying installations to 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Kennford, 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’re not tied to one manufacturer, so each Kennford property gets the heat pump that suits it, often an Ideal, built in the UK, and usually a cylinder that turns up already plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted. Four to ten kilowatts covers most Kennford homes; where one needs something else, the survey shows it.
How a Kennford installation runs, start to finish
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.
“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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We register the warranty at commissioning on each unit, whoever made it: an Ideal unit carries seven years of parts and labour, and other makes have their own cover.
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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 into Teignbridge, including Kennford, 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 Kennford callers ask before they book
An air source heat pump installation Kennford quote comes down to the property’s size, the radiators and hot water use, which is why every enquiry starts with a free home assessment, not a price list.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 once a fossil fuel system comes out, or £9,000 where the property is off the gas grid on oil or LPG, applications by 31 March 2027. We confirm which applies to your Kennford property up front.
Book my free home assessmentOn the public EPC records, yes. Every Kennford address with an EPC record on Exeter Road runs on oil or electric heating, none on mains gas. Distance from Exeter doesn’t decide the fuel map; we confirm yours at the free home assessment.
Book my free home assessmentRoughly a week: starting Monday, commissioning Thursday or Friday, water off in short spells, not whole days. Two jobs at once is our ceiling, so whoever starts your Kennford installation finishes it.
Book my free home assessmentYes, designed for what it is, not eyeballed. A solid cob wall on a Kennford property like the ones on Exeter Road holds heat on its own rhythm, and the survey measures that rather than assuming it.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes. A heat pump runs at a gentler flow temperature than a boiler, so a handful of radiators in a cob or older Kennford house may need to grow. Your survey names them room by room.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Kennford
James walks your Kennford 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
Want to talk it over first? Ring 01395 202030, answered by the owner, not a call centre. Our contact page lists the other ways to reach us.
