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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
That's for me too with my 25 year old boiler, I had mine fixed rather than pay £3000+, I know if I stay in this house I will need to change it before they stop installing them as I'm not having a heat pump as a boiler, heard some bad stories for how useless they are and how expensive to run.
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You need to stop listening to the man down the pub. If they’re installed properly, heat pumps are extremely effective. The problem isn’t the heat pump, it’s the British attitude to building and insulating houses, thanks to something like 400 years of extremely cheap energy. It has always been easier to chuck more coal on the fire, or latterly just turn the thermostat up a notch, than to think seriously about retaining the heat.
They are widely used in far colder places than the UK and the technology is always improving - today you can get the same results from an air-source unit that 20 years ago you would have to have installed a hundred metres of pipe underground to get.