If you are planning an airtight home, you will be offered MVHR with a heat pump as a package. The two do work well together, but they do different jobs. MVHR (mechanical ventilation with heat recovery) takes heat out of the air leaving the house and puts it into the fresh air coming in. The … Read more
Choosing a heat pump is the easy part. Most manufacturers now make a decent unit, and the specification sheets all look fairly similar once you strip out the marketing. What decides whether you end up with a system that keeps the house warm on a cold January morning, or one that labours all winter and … Read more
If you’ve just had a heat pump fitted, or you’re coming up to your first annual check, you’ve probably had a quote for a service and wondered exactly what you’re paying for. With a gas boiler, the pattern is familiar: a quick check, a clean, a certificate through the letterbox. A heat pump service is … Read more
A heat pump that was sized and set up properly in the autumn can still feel sluggish the moment the first proper cold snap hits. That is not a fault. It’s physics, and once you understand what is happening, you can set the system up to cope with it rather than fight it. This guide … Read more
Along with my partners, we have completed many heat pump installations in the last fifteen years without complaint. Though these are at the more premium level of products, I have seen endless negative reports on social media about them, and yet the growth in UK heat pump installations is real. It’s also a lot slower … Read more
