The electrical side of air source heat pumps, for homeowners and for the heating engineers who fit them. Supply checks, dedicated circuits, isolators, consumer unit upgrades and controls wiring across North Yorkshire.
Much of rural North Yorkshire has never had mains gas. Oil and LPG boilers are the norm in the Dales, and those are the homes most likely to be looking at a heat pump now.
What a heat pump asks of the electrics is a dedicated circuit, an isolator by the outdoor unit, and enough capacity in the supply and the board to carry it alongside everything else. In an older farmhouse or cottage, that is worth checking before the unit is ordered, not after.
Heat pumps are usually fitted by a heating engineer, with the electrical work done alongside. Doing that electrical side properly, with the right protection, a certificate at the end, and the controls wired so the system actually runs the way it was designed, is what this page covers.
If you are thinking about a heat pump, or replacing one that is already there, ring and talk it through. Heating engineers who need a reliable electrician for the electrical side of their installs are welcome to ring as well.
Priced after a look at what is actually there. A figure over the phone on work like this would be a guess, and a guess is how people end up with a second, bigger number halfway through.
A house moving to a heat pump is often thinking about solar and an EV charger as well. All three draw on the same supply, so it is worth planning them together, even if they go in a year apart. The board and the supply then get sized once, properly, instead of three times.
This work goes out across the whole patch, from Swaledale and Wensleydale down to York and Harrogate.
Not always. It depends on what the board is, how much spare capacity it has and the size of the incoming supply. Some boards take a heat pump circuit without any trouble and some do not. A look at the board answers it.
Occasionally, especially in older rural property on a small supply, or where a heat pump, an EV charger and solar are all going in. That gets checked first, and you are told what is involved before anything is ordered.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant has to be claimed through an MCS certified installer. Ring and ask how that works for your job and you will get a straight answer.
Yes. Ring to talk through the job, the unit and the timing, and the electrical side can be planned in around your install.
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