Heat Pump Installation Lyme Regis: Steep Streets, One Measured Design
Lyme Regis rises steeply from the harbour to the hillside villas above, ground far from flat or forgiving. Heat pump installation Lyme Regis starts with a room-by-room heat loss survey, sized for that slope, the grant deducted upfront and a system designed to keep the house warm all winter.
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 Lyme Regis installation includes
A heat pump that lets its owner down is nearly always one specified in a hurry. Every Lyme Regis installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. Wall construction, glazing and room use, recorded one room at a time.
- The heat pump and a matched cylinder. The right unit for the house outside, a heat-pump-specific cylinder inside.
- Radiator changes where the numbers ask for them. A solid Victorian wall can mean two or three emitters; a newer extension, often none.
- Pipework and electrics. Positioned against the MCS sound calculation.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Flow temperature set against the design figure, weather compensation configured, hot water timing agreed with you rather than left on factory defaults.
- The grant application. Filed and deducted before you’re invoiced.
- Handover and aftercare. A plain-English walkthrough, then the same number to ring for a service.
Underfloor heating sits inside the same scope, happy at these systems’ low flow temperatures. More on older properties like these on our heat pumps in old houses blog.
Heat pump installation Lyme Regis: villas on a hillside, cottages on the flat
Behind the town centre, the hillslopes carry Georgian and Victorian villas, with newer infill higher up.
- Nearer the harbour, the housing is older and denser: stone cottages and terraces close to the Cobb.
A villa halfway up the hill and a cottage by the water lose heat at different rates, never designed correctly from a floor plan alone.
- We also cover heat pump installation in Seaton, across the Axe estuary.
James Stalker, the owner, has been on heat pumps since 2010, past 100 installations behind him, and works as a freelance NAPIT MCS assessor auditing other installers’ work.
- Sizing for a Lyme Regis property comes from a room-by-room heat loss survey, never a street-level guess.
- See how we design an air source heat pump installation.
Why Lyme Regis homeowners choose us
Comparing quotes in Lyme Regis usually comes down to one number, but the better question is whether that installer still answers two winters after they’ve gone. A villa on the steep streets above the Cobb gets followed up exactly like a harbour flat.
The owner runs your job, start to finish: survey, design, commissioning, handover, then aftercare.
- In Lyme Regis a later question goes to James himself, the person who knows your system.
- The about page covers the rest.
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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, as NAPIT’s freelance MCS assessor.
Your designer inspects other installers’ work, as NAPIT’s freelance MCS assessor.
- He commissions your Lyme Regis system himself, setting the flow temperature against the design figure he worked out from the survey.
Sizing comes from measurement, not a street name, on a hillside villa or a cottage by the Cobb alike.
- We sized a 1930s Exmouth home with 34 windows the same way, and the design runs at 47 degrees, keeping all but seven radiators.
Older and period properties welcome.
- A Georgian villa and a modern extension behave nothing alike, and both get designed for what they actually are.
The grant deducted upfront.
- A Lyme Regis installation runs about a week, with a straightforward drive back for aftercare.
- We also cover heat pump installation in Axminster, up the valley.
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Heat pump installation Lyme Regis: costs, and which grant applies
Our MCS certification lets us file your grant application and deduct the grant from your invoice at the outset, rather than leaving you to fund it and claim it back.
Check if your home qualifiesOn running costs we’re straight with you: no percentage, no annual figure, because the honest answer turns on your tariff and what’s being replaced.
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, an eligible owner-occupier can qualify for £7,500 towards an air-to-water heat pump.
- Many Lyme Regis properties sit off the gas grid on oil or LPG and can qualify for £9,000 instead, on any application lodged on or before 31 March 2027.
- VAT sits at 0% through to 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Lyme Regis, 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 aren’t tied to one make: each Lyme Regis property gets the heat pump that fits it, frequently an Ideal, made in the UK and quick to get spares for, and a cylinder that normally arrives already plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted at the factory. Four to ten kilowatts covers most of what we measure across town, a finished cylinder saving a day in a tight, older airing cupboard.
How a Lyme Regis 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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Any heat pump we fit is registered with its maker at commissioning. Ideal units we fit get seven years of parts and labour that way; other makes have their own warranty.
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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 just over the Dorset border too, including Lyme Regis, within 45 minutes of our Exmouth base, alongside 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 Lyme Regis callers ask before they book
An air source heat pump installation Lyme Regis quote depends on the property’s size, the cylinder and how many radiators change, so we open with a free home assessment rather than a price list.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays £7,500 for most homes, or £9,000 where a Lyme Regis property sits off the gas grid on oil or LPG, applications by 31 March 2027. We settle which applies at the free home assessment. Next door in Uplyme, on the Devon side of the border, the rates are identical.
Book my free home assessmentUsually, yes, even on a Lyme Regis hillside plot. We check outdoor space, airflow clearance and the pipe run at the free home assessment. A steep street or narrow yard changes where the unit sits, not whether one is possible.
Book my free home assessmentRoughly a week for a typical Lyme Regis job, usually starting Monday and commissioned by Thursday or Friday, with the water off only in short spells rather than for whole days at a time.
Book my free home assessmentNo, and nothing is owed anywhere in Lyme Regis after it. Only the heat loss survey is chargeable, at £250 plus VAT, wiped in full if you go ahead with the install.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes, in a Lyme Regis property. A heat pump runs at a gentler flow temperature than a boiler, so a handful of radiators in a Georgian villa or older cottage may need to grow. Your heat loss survey names them room by room.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Lyme Regis
James walks your Lyme Regis 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 has other ways to reach us.
