Starting our heat pump journey in 4 bedroom house (possibly)

Callum_62 · 2025-02-12T12:42:00Z

Hi all, First post here as we have just started to look into getting a heat pump at our property. We have contacted 3 suppliers to get I initial quotes and we will go from there We live in a 4 bedroom house built in 2020 that currently has a system boiler with water tank etc. We have added 4KW of solar panels on an east/West roof and currently have a 6.5 Growatt battery storage Our house for the most part looks to be a good fit for a heat pump and I'm curious to see costings come in We actually just got an Initial cost from one company today and it was definitely higher than expected Around £9500 cost to me after the £7500 grant is applied - total install cost of £17k That was for a 6kw unit based on initial observations I await further info coming in but I hope they are quite a bit below £9k! That's quote included upgrading 8 rads (£1850) Thanks!

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ChandyKris

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20/02/2025 10:40 am

@njt Same here. We have 6.9 solar and a 6.5 kWh Growatt battery. Since, I switched to cosy after the heat pump install, we fill up the battery thrice a day and that runs the heat pump and the base demand without importing from the grid during the peak hours. I wonder whether getting another 6.5 kWh battery would prolong the life of the battery due to fewer cycles. One for spreadsheet modelling!

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20/02/2025 10:53 am

@callum_62 That does sound excessive. We are in a slightly older new build, around 12 years old, 4 beds (and a study) and three reception rooms including a 30 sqm open plan living dining kitchen. We paid a lot less (around 40% less) for a 6 kW heat pump with a 200 L tank and six rad changes. But also reused three rads from downstairs rooms for the upstairs rooms.

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16 * 435 watts PV
13 kWh Growatt battery
1 EV - Mercedes EQB
6 kW Aira Heat Pump

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20/02/2025 4:00 pm

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@editor Hi - sure

Aira 6kw 250l tank - 8 rads changes - £17k

Arotherm 7kw 200l tank 8 rads - £19k

Vaillant 5kw 200l tank 6 rads - just under £15k

All include a variety of radiator upgrades - generally changing any K1 to K2 rads

My house is bog standard 4 bed detached new build- no weird or complex pipe runs either from what I could tell and they advised - no pipework upgrades were factored. We already have a system boiler so new tank would go where current tank is

Basic heatloss around 5.2kw

I'm not saying what I've been quoted is overpriced as they come in sort of around the same but I'd have thought our house would have been on the cheaper end of the scale - and yet some are more than the grant and the max interest free loan combined!

I got several quotes like this for a (on the face of it) similar season.

I also got two quotes of 5K + BUS grant, from the installers I anyway trusted most. Add a couple of K for the fact that, by the time I got sensible quotes, half of the rad upgrades had been done and so say 7K + BUS grant.

My advice - shop around!

4kW peak of solar PV since 2011; EV and a 1930s house which has been partially renovated to improve its efficiency. 7kW Vaillant heat pump.

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