Heat Pump Installation Tedburn St Mary: A Crossroads Off The Grid
The bulk of Tedburn St Mary sits well off the gas grid, farms and cottages filling an oil tank every winter. Heat pump installation Tedburn St Mary starts with a room-by-room survey, the grant deducted upfront, designed for what your building actually is.
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 Tedburn St Mary installation includes
A heat pump that disappoints its owner is nearly always specified in a hurry. Every Tedburn St Mary installation we quote covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. We log wall construction, glazing and floor build-up room by room before anything is specified.
- The heat pump and a matched cylinder. A unit outside chosen for this house, a heat-pump-specific cylinder inside.
- Radiator upgrades only where the figures justify them. An older stone-built property can mean two or three upgraded emitters; a newer build, often none.
- Pipework and electrics. Cable runs and the base for the outdoor unit get agreed at your survey visit, matched to the sound calculation for your lane.
- Commissioning. Whatever the make, we register the manufacturer warranty the same day the heat pump is tested live; on an Ideal that is seven years of parts and labour, so cover starts the moment we leave your property.
- The grant application. We handle the paperwork and take it off the bill before you are invoiced.
- Handover and aftercare, then one number to ring for the first service.
Underfloor heating fits the same design brief, running comfortably at these systems’ lower flow temperatures.
Heat pump installation Tedburn St Mary: a crossroads that outgrew its name
The majority of the parish’s around 700 dwellings sit well beyond the old crossroads, spread along lanes that never got a gas main.
- Enough properties still burn oil that the village runs its own Heating Oil Club to soften the cost.
We’re the MCS-certified air-to-water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth, and James has been on heat pumps since 2010, with past 100 installations behind him, a straightforward run from heat pump installation in Exeter.
See how we design an air source heat pump installation: sizing comes from a room-by-room heat loss survey, never a guess pinned to which lane a property sits down.
- A stone farmhouse loses heat nothing like a newer cottage nearby.
Why Tedburn St Mary homeowners choose us
Two winters after the install, still reaching James matters more than who quoted the lowest number. That’s the promise behind every install we do in Tedburn St Mary.
The owner runs your job.
- James stays with it from the first visit through commissioning and handover, then aftercare.
- Later calls get James, who planned the system, with no sales department in between. See the about page.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
The person who designs your system also checks other installers’ work.
The person who designs your system also checks other installers’ work.
- James sits on NAPIT’s panel of freelance MCS assessors.
We size off measurement, never a postcode.
- Each room and wall gets logged first, the kilowatt figure follows from that record.
Older and period properties welcome.
- A stone farmhouse behaves nothing like a cavity-walled semi, and gets designed for what it is.
We lodge the grant application and subtract it upfront, the job about a week on site.
- Aftercare reaches about 15 miles into heat pump installation in Crediton too.
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Grants and costs for Tedburn St Mary homes
We apply for the grant and deduct it from your quote. You never pay the grant and reclaim it.
Check if your home qualifiesEligibility depends on your property, confirmed at the free home assessment.
On running costs, saving against cheap oil is usually modest: what changes is no delivery to book, no tank to watch.
- Our guide covers getting off oil in a Devon property.
Grant figures correct as of August 2026. Eligibility criteria apply and are confirmed at your free home assessment.
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Homes not on oil or LPG, mains gas included, qualify for £7,500.
- The Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays towards an air-to-water heat pump replacing a fossil fuel system. This parish largely sits off the gas grid, so an oil or LPG property can claim £9,000, detailed on our off-grid oil and LPG grant page, by 31 March 2027.
- Qualifying installations also carry 0% VAT until 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Tedburn St Mary, 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 fit Ideal often but aren’t tied to any one manufacturer, so the heat pump is matched to the property, usually alongside a cylinder that turns up already plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted.
Ideal units are UK-built, so spares move fast, and that cylinder saves a day on a Tedburn St Mary farmhouse whose airing cupboard predates it. Need something different? That shows up at survey stage.
Heat pump installation Tedburn St Mary, from free visit to handover
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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Each Ideal unit comes with seven years of parts and labour, whereas other makes bring their own cover; we register both the day we commission.
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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.
Tedburn St Mary sits inside our East Devon and Teignbridge coverage, alongside Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Ottery St Mary, Woodbury, Lympstone, Newton Poppleford, West Hill and Honiton. Travel west and the moor’s north side begins; heat pump installation in Okehampton covers the exposed properties out that way.
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 Tedburn St Mary callers ask before they book
That depends on the size of the Tedburn St Mary property and how it makes hot water, which is why we open with a free home assessment, not a price list.
Book my free home assessmentUsually, yes. A stone-built Tedburn St Mary farmhouse stores and gives back heat differently to a modern cavity wall, which is why the survey exists: to design for the building you actually have.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme: much of the parish is off the gas grid on oil or LPG, which can qualify for £9,000 on any application by 31 March 2027. Other Tedburn St Mary homes on mains gas can qualify for £7,500.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week for a Tedburn St Mary job. The job usually starts on a Monday, with commissioning falling on the Thursday or Friday, so the whole install runs to a fixed timetable.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes. A heat pump runs at a gentler flow temperature than an oil boiler, so a handful of radiators in an older Tedburn St Mary property may need to grow. Your heat loss survey names them.
Book my free home assessmentIt comes out of use at your Tedburn St Mary property. We disconnect and cap the oil line and leave the tank safely in place, or, if you add removal as an optional extra, we take it away and dispose of it legally. No delivery, no tank to watch: worth something in a parish that runs its own heating oil buying club to soften the cost of oil out here.
Book my free home assessmentBook your free home assessment in Tedburn St Mary
James walks your Tedburn St Mary property himself, gives you a plain answer on what he finds, and stays your one point of contact right through to handover.
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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? Call 01395 202030 and James answers directly, never a call centre. Other ways to reach us are listed on our contact page.
