Heat Pump Installation Thorverton: Cob, Quarried Stone and a Parish Still on Oil
Plenty of Thorverton properties, cob and stone alike, still run on oil, and the fuel picture inside the village itself is mixed. Heat pump installation Thorverton means a room-by-room survey first, a system sized to match, and the grant deducted so you’re warm through 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 Thorverton installation includes
A heat pump that disappoints somebody almost always got specified in a hurry. Every Thorverton installation covers:
- The heat loss survey and design. Wall type, cob, Thorverton stone or newer cavity, glazing and room use recorded one at a time, giving a kilowatt figure that belongs to your address alone.
- The heat pump and a matched cylinder, sized to real hot water use rather than a catalogue default.
- Radiator changes where the numbers call for them. A cob cottage on Bullen Street can need two or three upgraded emitters; a newer extension often needs none.
- Pipework, electrics and the outdoor base, positioned against the MCS sound calculation.
- Commissioning. Typically starting Monday and commissioned by Thursday or Friday.
- The grant application, filed by us, netted off before an invoice is raised.
- Handover and aftercare, a plain-English walkthrough and one number to ring at the first service.
Underfloor heating sits inside the same scope too, running happily at the low flow temperatures these systems use.
Heat pump installation Thorverton: an old village on a mixed fuel supply
Thorverton’s older cottages are built from cob or from Thorverton stone quarried at Raddon, and neither material carries one uniform fuel supply.
- On Silver Street, Bullen Street and Dinneford Street the picture is genuinely split, oil on some properties and mains gas on others, so the survey starts from what is feeding your boiler, not the postcode.
Out past the village centre, where a dozen working farms keep the sheep and cattle tradition going, oil is the common answer.
- We are the MCS-certified air-to-water specialist on Exeter Road in Exmouth, and James Stalker has been on heat pumps since 2010, with past 100 installations behind him.
A short drive west, we also cover heat pump installation in Crediton, a market town sharing the same mix.
- See how we design an air source heat pump installation.
Why Thorverton homeowners choose us
Cob walls round Thorverton hold heat differently to a modern cavity wall, and the same is true of installers: some vanish after the invoice, others are still on the phone two winters later, and that difference matters more than the number on the quote.
The owner runs your job.
- From first visit and design to handover he oversees the fit and commissions the system himself, and the aftercare stays his, so later calls reach someone who understands your house.
- Our about page tells how James got started.
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“James Stalker is the most reliable man I know.”
Stephen M. · Google review · five stars
Your designer inspects everybody else’s work.
Your designer inspects everybody else’s work.
- NAPIT contracts James as a freelance MCS assessor.
- Oversizing isn’t a theory to him.
Sizing comes from measurement, not which side of the village you’re on.
- Cob, Thorverton stone and newer cavity each get logged before the kilowatt figure is set.
Older and period properties welcome.
- A cob cottage and a stone farmhouse are different design problems, and both get one.
The grant handled, about a week on site.
- We deduct the Boiler Upgrade Scheme from the price before you’re invoiced, never money you fund and claim back.
- We also cover heat pump installation in Silverton. Cheriton Fitzpaine, about four miles north-east of Crediton, is oil country: 43.9% of homes in its Way ward heat with oil, and replacing oil in Cheriton Fitzpaine starts with the same room-by-room survey.
What homeowners say on Google
Grants and costs for Thorverton homes
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 Thorverton home qualifies; we confirm yours at the free home assessment.
On running costs we’re honest: savings against cheap oil are usually modest.
- The gain is the deliveries, the tank-watching and the January worry about running dry all going away.
- More on 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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The Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays towards an air-to-water heat pump replacing a fossil fuel system.
- £7,500 applies if your Thorverton property is still on mains gas.
- £9,000 applies for a home off the gas grid on oil or LPG, more common out toward Raddon and Yellowford, on any application lodged by 31 March 2027.
- 0% VAT on qualifying installations to 31 March 2027.
The kit we fit in Thorverton, and why
Four to ten kilowatts covers most Thorverton properties. Where one genuinely calls for something else, the heat loss survey shows it.
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.
Unlike big firms fixed on one or two makes, James chooses the heat pump for each property, often an Ideal, and a cylinder that usually arrives already plumbed, filter, diverter valve, cylinder stat and overheat cut-out fitted at the factory.
Ideal builds its units in the UK, so spares move fast, handy for a cob cottage or farmhouse alike.
Heat pump installation Thorverton, 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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Ideal units carry seven years of parts and labour; other makes have their own cover. Registering the warranty at commissioning is ours to do on each unit.
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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 Mid Devon, including Thorverton, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Ottery St Mary, Woodbury, Lympstone, Newton Poppleford, West Hill and Honiton. Well beyond Tiverton, our Bampton page covers limestone terraces where the certificates we read showed no mains gas at all.
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 Thorverton callers ask before they book
It depends on the property and the radiators, which is why we start with a free home assessment, not a price list. In Thorverton, the price we write down is the price you pay.
Book my free home assessmentThe Boiler Upgrade Scheme. A Thorverton property on mains gas can qualify for £7,500. A home off the gas grid on oil or LPG, common toward Raddon and Yellowford, can qualify for £9,000, on any application lodged by 31 March 2027.
Book my free home assessmentIt genuinely varies. A sample of EPC certificates for the village centre shows both oil and mains gas, and out among the farms it tips further toward oil. We confirm which applies to your Thorverton address at the free home assessment, not from the postcode.
Book my free home assessmentAbout a week. Your Thorverton installation typically starts on a Monday and commissions on the Thursday or Friday, with your water off in short spells rather than whole days.
Book my free home assessmentSometimes. A heat pump runs at a gentler flow temperature than a gas or oil boiler, so a handful of radiators, more often in an older Thorverton cob or stone cottage, may need to grow. Your heat loss survey names them first, room by room.
Book my free home assessmentNo, and nothing is owed anywhere in Thorverton 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 assessmentBook your free home assessment in Thorverton
James walks your Thorverton 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
Ring 01395 202030 to talk it through first, answered by the owner, not a call centre. Our contact page has the other ways to reach us.
