We’re thrilled to announce The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps, the most comprehensive and empowering book for homeowners navigating the world of renewable heating.
The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps is a one-of-a-kind resource, written by more than 30 of the UK’s leading heating engineers, renewable energy experts, installers, system designers and technical voices. It’s packed with insights, hard-earned lessons, practical advice and behind-the-scenes wisdom that you simply won’t find anywhere else, all grounded in real-world experience.
This book was created with one clear goal: to help you get the very best out of your heating system. Whether you’re just starting to explore if a heat pump is right for your home, deep in the planning stages or already living with one and looking to optimise its performance, this book is for you.
Why this book matters
We’re in the middle of one of the most important heating transitions in UK history, moving from gas to low-carbon, electrified heating. But unlike the shift from coal to gas, this change is far more complex. Homes differ wildly in age, construction, insulation and layout. Heat pump performance isn’t just plug-and-play – it hinges on correct sizing, system design, good controls and user understanding.
And yet, too many homeowners are still being left in the dark. Too many installs are rushed or poorly commissioned. And too many people give up on heat pumps after a bad first experience, even though the technology works brilliantly when done properly.
This book exists to change that. It arms you with the knowledge and questions you need to ask, the red flags to watch out for and an understanding of the principles of good system design that really matter. You’ll learn what to expect, what to demand and what to avoid, straight from the mouths (and minds) of the very best in the UK who do this work every day.
What’s inside?
Spanning over 200 pages, every chapter in this book has been written independently by one of our trusted contributors, allowing them to focus on the topics they know best, from heat loss calculations and pipe sizing to defrost cycles, hybrid systems, tricky installations in period properties, underfloor heating and time-of-use tariffs. The result is a rich and diverse resource full of experience, nuance and common-sense clarity.
Who it’s for
- If you’re a homeowner wanting to go green without the risk of expensive mistakes, this book is for you.
- If you already have a heat pump but want to understand it better and run it more efficiently, this book is for you.
- And if you’re an installer, designer, consultant or renewables professional looking to bridge the gap between technical excellence and homeowner understanding, we think you’ll love this book too.
The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps is available from Amazon and directly from us!
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Hi When will you be publishing a kindle version of this. Don’t do physical books any more! With kind regards William
The Kindle version is also out: https://amzn.to/4bW4Rhd
A great review from Steve on LinkedIn.
I’ve just read this book (sorry not ordered via Amazon but I don’t have an account). It is very interesting and full of useful pointers for anyone thinking of commissioning a heat pump and looking to educate themselves about the pitfalls.
I had two main takeaways:
i) Even with the extra knowledge, remember that experts still differ in their opinions. One contributor recommended not having multple heating zones, possibly only two. I have multiple heating zones (1 in each room) and believe that I got extra points for this when the EPC assessor visited recently.
ii) I agree that consumers need to educate themselves so that they can ask important questions of their heat pump installers. That this book needed to be written is testament to the lack of sufficient technical knowledge in the industry. Consumers are having to educate themselves to make up for the lack of industry expertise.
If I wrote down all the pointers in the book I would have quite a long list of questions to ask. This is indicative of the lack of assurance you can have that an installer knows what they are talking about. Thankfully we don’t have to do this with a wide range of complex consumer products.
This book and the number of users on the RHH indicate how much the industry has to do to make heat pumps true consumer products. There are approx 37K posts here about heat pumps compared with 17K in total for all other topics. The people posting these are not doing it to swap stories about what fun they had last week with their heat pump compared with that old gas boiler they scrapped recently!
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