Heat Pump Installation Sidbury: Every Radiator Named Before You Order
Three of the six current Sidbury certificates we read show storage heaters, so there are no radiators to reuse. Heat pump installation Sidbury starts with a room-by-room heat loss survey, and the radiator schedule comes out of it.
A great company to work with. Communication was excellent throughout, with quick responses and clear explanations whenever we had questions. The heat pump is almost silent, which was something we were worried about, and the results have been fantastic. We’re lovely and warm and always have plenty of hot water. Great work
James Stalker, owner
NAPIT MCS assessor
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What your Sidbury installation includes
Nothing on this list arrives later as an extra. A Sidbury installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. Room by room measurements first, then the unit size, the radiator schedule, the flow temperature and the cylinder specification drawn from them.
- The heat pump and its cylinder. An outdoor unit picked for this house’s heat loss, and indoors a cylinder big enough for the baths and showers this household actually runs, delivered ready plumbed.
- Every radiator named in writing. The schedule lists each room, says which panel stays and which grows, and prices the changes before a single order is placed.
- Pipework, electrics and the base outside. A property coming off storage heaters gets a full set of pipe runs, and the MCS sound calculation decides where the unit stands.
- Commissioning and optimisation. Flow temperature and the hot water times are set against the finished system with you there, rather than left as they came out of the box.
- The grant claim. We hold the MCS certification, so the Boiler Upgrade Scheme paperwork is ours and the award is taken off the quote before you pay anything.
- Handover and aftercare. The controls get explained until they are second nature, and the servicing later comes from the people who designed the system.
An underfloor circuit is drawn and priced in the same job, and a cooler flow is exactly what it wants.
Air source heat pump installation Sidbury: the radiators decide the quote
We read six current energy certificates in Sidbury, three on Chapel Street and three at cottages and farms on the lanes around the village.
- Two record an oil boiler, one records mains gas, and three record electric storage heaters, which leaves no wet system to carry over.
- That is what a radiator schedule settles.
- Where an oil boiler already feeds panels, most rooms keep what they have and the survey names the few that need upsizing; where storage heaters come off the wall, every room is drawn from scratch.
- Our post on radiators for a heat pump works through both.
Our base is Exeter Road in Exmouth, MCS certified and air to water only, about half an hour from the village by road.
- Since 2010 heat pumps have been James’s trade, and past 100 installations stand behind the design drawn for your property.
- Our air source heat pump installation page walks through how that is done.
Why Sidbury homeowners choose us
Parts of the village sit in a conservation area, and Chapel Street carries a row of C18 cob cottages under one thatched roof, so pipe routes and unit siting get answered on the doorstep. The heat pump installer Sidbury owners meet that day is the heat pump company Sidbury owners ring two winters later.
The owner runs your job.
- Aftercare stays with James, and so does everything that decides how the system performs: the first visit, the survey, the design, the commissioning and the handover.
- Two-man teams do the fitting to his drawing, and anyone needing help afterwards speaks to the engineer who measured it up. Our about page sets out his background.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
He assesses other installers for a living.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor, so the standard he audits other people against is the one your system is built to.
Every room gets its own number.
- The survey logs each one separately, and the kilowatt figure the design works to is what those rooms add up to on the coldest day.
Older and period properties welcome.
- Cob, stone and a low ceiling change the numbers a survey comes back with, not the answer, and heat pumps for older properties in Sidbury get the same design process as a new build.
- More in heat pumps in old houses.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- The Boiler Upgrade Scheme claim is ours to lodge and the award comes off before your invoice is written.
- Installation runs about a week, Monday start and commissioning Thursday or Friday, the same rhythm as heat pump installation in Sidmouth down the valley.
What homeowners say on Google
Boiler Upgrade Scheme Sidbury: which rate a property here draws
Holding the certification ourselves is what lets the award be deducted before your invoice is drawn up.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on the property and your circumstances, so not every Sidbury home qualifies.
We confirm yours at the free home assessment before anything is promised.
- Running costs, honestly: the saving against cheap oil is usually modest, and the comparison changes where the old system is direct electric.
- The figures sit in air source heat pump costs in Devon.
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, so oil, gas and storage heater properties in Sidbury all count.
- A property that burns oil or LPG and has no mains gas connection can qualify for £9,000, on applications lodged by 31 March 2027.
- Our post on the off grid oil and LPG grant covers who the uplift reaches.
- 0% VAT runs on the installation to 31 March 2027, and the rate for other eligible homes, including mains gas, is £7,500.
The kit we fit in Sidbury, 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 are not tied to one manufacturer, and that sets us apart from big firms fixed on one or two makes.
The air source heat pump Sidbury properties get from us is the one that suits the house, often an Ideal, with a cylinder that usually lands pre-plumbed, cylinder stat, overheat stat, filter and diverter valve fitted at the factory.
4 to 10 kilowatts covers most of what our surveys come back with. Ideal builds its units here in the UK, so spares are usually one call away, which counts for more in January than any badge on the casing.
Air to water heat pump installation Sidbury: how the work runs
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 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”
Richard D. · 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 on an Ideal, and any other brand carries its maker’s own warranty. We set the cover up with the manufacturer at commissioning on every install, so it never depends on you posting a card.
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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.
East Devon is our patch, from Sidbury and Sidmouth across to Ottery St Mary, West Hill, Newton Poppleford, Budleigh Salterton, Woodbury, Lympstone, Exmouth 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 Sidbury homeowners ask before they book
Nothing here prices off a rate card. A property keeping its oil fed panels comes out differently from one where every radiator, the pipe runs and the cylinder are new, so the schedule of emitters sets the price. James writes the fixed estimate for a Sidbury property at the free home assessment itself.
Book my free home assessmentThat depends on your heating now. A Sidbury house burning oil or LPG with no gas connection can qualify for £9,000 under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, on applications lodged by 31 March 2027. A house on another eligible fuel, mains gas among them, can qualify for £7,500. Being MCS certified, we claim it and take it off your quote.
Book my free home assessmentNo, it makes the design a blank sheet. Three of the six Sidbury certificates we read record electric storage heaters, so there is no wet system to inherit: every radiator, the pipe runs and the cylinder come out of the heat loss survey and are priced in the fixed quote before work starts.
Book my free home assessmentSome rooms, rarely all of them. Oil boiler replacement in Sidbury usually keeps most panels where they are, and the survey compares what each room loses with what its radiator can give at a heat pump’s lower flow temperature. Anything short is listed, sized and priced before an order goes in.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week on site. Work starts on the Monday, commissioning lands on the Thursday or Friday, and we hold to one or two jobs at a time. Sidbury is about half an hour from our Exmouth base if anything needs a second visit.
Book my free home assessmentThat is what the room-by-room survey settles. A Sidbury cottage under thatch is sized to the home and to what its rooms lose on the coldest days. Thatch and a listing bear on where the unit can stand, which we raise at the free home assessment so you know what to ask East Devon District Council.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Sidbury
The first visit is James himself, at the property, working through the rooms and leaving a fixed estimate for the Sidbury job before he goes.
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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
Prefer to talk it through first? Ring 01395 202030, and the voice on the line is James, the owner, rather than a call centre. Email and the enquiry form both sit on the contact page.
