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Our longer Learn guides are kept up to date against their sources, so they are the best place to start. The shorter posts below are kept for anyone who arrives on them.
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The BUS is open, with £7,500 towards air source or ground source heat pumps, and £9,000 for off-grid oil and LPG homes until 31 March 2027. We walk through eligibility, what counts as an 'installation', and the paperwork that determines whether your application is approved first time.
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Will it be noisy? Will my radiators still work? What happens when it is minus five outside? We answer the questions that come up in every heat pump conversation we have. Honestly, with numbers, and without the marketing gloss.
Your EPC tells you more than most people realise, and less than it pretends to. We explain what the rating means, why some of the recommendations are genuinely useful, and why others should be treated as a starting point rather than a to-do list.
A heat pump in a leaky house is like putting a better engine in a car with flat tyres. The order in which you retrofit has a bigger impact on comfort and running cost than the specific equipment you choose. Here is how to sequence it.
Solar savings depend on roof orientation, shading, your occupancy pattern, whether you pair with a battery, and the tariff you are on. We walk through the actual arithmetic, not the best-case scenario on the sales leaflet.
PAS 2035 is the whole-house retrofit standard, mandatory for publicly funded schemes and increasingly expected by private customers too. If you are commissioning significant work, here is why the standard your installer works to is the single biggest quality signal.
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