I’d already decided that I would never buy a heat pump even before I saw a recent TV documentary on customer experiences. I mean! Why would I want to exchange my trusty old Potterton for something the size of a ship’s engine.?And don’t kid me about savings on my energy bills. Yeah I might save a couple of hundred quid. Against a £40,000 total installation cost, Including improvements to home insulation. Big deal! Such a return on investment. A few days ago while I was having my boiler serviced I asked the heating engineer about heat pumps. He shook his head. This is what he said.
” I live in a rented house that’s got a heat pump. It takes four hours just to heat up enough water to have a bath. So as there’s several of us in the house, I have to use the immersion heater. And what really worries me is that most of the equipment has to be stored outside the building, where it’s so easy to steal. Think about all that copper piping”
BRUCE AND HOLLY 