Many millions of UK homeowners are open to installing heat pumps if the industry is able to supply them as their old boilers come to the end of their lives. In a new survey by Barclays bank only 20% said they would not switch to a heat pump when their boiler needs replacing. One reason given in just 10% of these questioned, was that they thought that heat pumps were too expensive.
Although price was a factor in whether to install a heat pump or not, around 25% of the participants stated that they did not understand how heat pump technology works and a similar number (25%) said they did not know what a heat pump was. Just over a fifth said they did not think their house has enough insulation for a heat pump to work efficiently.
Scottish journalist and television presenter Martel Maxwell who stars in Homes Under The Hammer for the BBC said that a heat pump had been installed when recently building a new home. Martel is on record as stating: “To scale heat pumps in the UK, the Government should reform taxes and levies on energy. Other countries have shown that once heat pumps become much cheaper to run than fossil fuel systems consumers install them. It’s a significant investment but heats your home in a greener way, and in our case, it reduced our energy bills,”
Raising awareness is part of what IMS Heat Pumps is about, along with ensuring that any heat pump project commissioned would provide an optimum renewable energy solution for your home.