Heat pumps may be heralded as the future of home heating, but what’s it like to buy and use one? I installed a heat pump three years ago, and from the initial decision-making process to installation to adapting to the way your home is heated, this is what it’s like to live with one.
We had been living in our home for about nine years and were running an oil-fired central heating system — though we’re not rural, at the time that our 1980s home was built it came with electrical storage heaters. Over the years many of these homes were subsequently fitted with a wet central heating system and oil or LPG gas boilers, and ours was one such property.
OUR GROWING NEEDS
When the family started to outgrow
