Will heat pumps work in Britain?

The 2 that i know of fitted did not work to what they had been told it would achieve. Hardly much heat during colder days as it spent most of the energy "de icing" itself...
One of them was told by the manufacturer to include a inline heater within the pipe work to help it along in colder days 😂😂🤦🤷
The other customer ripped it out and went back to a conventional combi boiler..

Just had 1 fitted, its costing 50 quid a day so it is coming back out, be warned people🤷‍♂️

What about people living in flats?

Net zero carbon

What is ALL life upon this planet made of?

To those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear.

I had one and they are rubbish gone back to gas boiler much better

electricity is not disaster proof

The gov should also support battery storage with heat pumps so your electricity costs are affordable

W Rishi for that controversial speech

Not in my house they won’t she will regret that heat pump just wait till the severe weather kicks in

Living in Finland and I have to say I don´t know too many friends or relatives, who DON´T have (air->air usually, or air->water) heatpump. They became quite popular some 15 years ago.
I don´t get it why install an expensive system to heat water with it? In here, most installs are for air->air heatpumps. Most of them. Price for that is 1500-2500, depending on model and size. Heat at winter + colling at summer.

Retro-fitting heat pumps is a nightmare. It is also driven by deeply flawed assumptions about the way the Great British public lead their lives. If we aim to have all of our living space warmed to ‘shirt-sleeves comfortable’ all the time, then the improved insulation and much, much bigger radiators may be worth the cost and hassle. For those of us (the great majority) who wish to use heating flexibly, a condensing gas boiler will take a lot of beating. I consume about one-third of the energy that I am ‘supposed’ to use because I only heat rooms that I happen to be in at the time. This isn’t practical for heat pump installations as they take many hours to bring any given room up to temperature.

Gas combi boilers do not need space consuming hot water cylinders.
Large heat pumps are unsuitable for millions of flats.

The headlines are anti heat pump. Who benefits from this? The people selling gas.

No they don’t work in every type of homes , further more we have proven that relying on electricity alone with power lost in storms this week can put life at risk if the weathers bad , it will put families and elderly at risk . We need instead to ban g to b to force people to go to boiler plus with wether comp on an a rated boiler instead keep reducing power consumption, and further pushing industry production first into cooking alternatives, I still feel hydrogen is essential to be introduced at 20-30% but not greater than 50 % wehere existing pipes cannot cope the technological problems and cost to upgrade grid would be astronomical. That alone will save approx 72 million homes with older boilers ,30% gas and as a grid alone cut consumption by 20% from imports helping kill that winter spike from energy prices , by cutting the biggest users will also save approx a quarter of imported gas , thr electricity grid can then centralise power consumption to use off peak loads to generate hydrogen power, I feel eco 10 should also be brought in to help those working from home in the day when there is often an excess and elderly, combined with a grant based 15 kwh , battery it can help take away peak load at 6-10pm which often needs requiring industrial ramp up , we don’t need more wind we need regular continuous power, if we off set one or two gas powered centralised power production to use off peak generated hydrogen it will save over a million c02 every month that is what the government should do than force heat pumps on property that have higher than 15kwh loss

I was forced to have one.. It uses about £8 a day and I have to have a blanket.

I heat my 425sqm home with wet UFH driven by a heat pump, Love it

We need a cartoon like ’when the wind blows’. Perhaps we could call it ‘When the water rises’ and show a few cities in USA, China and India.

Sharma is about to be very disappointed...

We dont need them... Our current gas boilers are perfectly fine and there is no `cLiMaTe cRiSis`

Net zero utter bollocks never going to happen

Guzzles electric in cold weather.

I've stayed in homes fitted with heat pumps , they don't work well 😢

These are garbage in winter. The house I live in now when I first moved in, it had a heat pump like these, radiators barely got luke warm, Had to buy a portable heater as I would wake up in the middle of the night shivering cold every night during winter. Got a gas boiler and it just works, Radiators get red hot when I need them to.
They may be better in a bigger house but a small house like mine they are completly useless.

There crap. 😡.

I have three air sourced heat pumps, they all clog up with ice as soon as the outside temperature gets to zero or near zero degrees celsius. This is down to the damp atmosphere we have in the UK, may be fine in Sweden or the like with very dry cold but that is not what we have here in the UK most of the time. And if any of these heat pump advocates want to argue the case I have photographs of the heat pump coils covered in ice.

Opposite me are several housing assoc properties that were installed with heat pumps about 3 years ago, I don't think there has been a month passed without an engineers van parked outside sorting another issue with the systems. That alone puts me off, its fine for the council to run up bills fixing these systems as they have unlimited resources thanks to taxpaying mugs but for private landlords these costs would be prohibitive.

I have an air source heat pump, works perfect heating a 2700 sq ft house no probs. During this cold weather cost avg £9 per day to run my house, heating and electric. Not so sure retro fitting though ? Ours is an 8 year old house insulated to the last with triple glaze windows. Summary, works fine 👍

Terrifyingly complicated and expensive, I regret fitting our ground source heat pump and would rather have a simple gas boiler. We get the RHI payment every 3 months, which makes it affordable to run and which I view as a bribe by the government so that they can tick another box. It only works in a heavily insulated new house, forget using it in the typical old British house.

Just really bad reporting😂

All these people who understand are underboot. Stupids.

Is the UK only looking at heat pumps now? Been used for a few years in Ireland. Heat pumps are only effective if the house has been very well insulated. They are also expensive to run in times of extreme cold.

They need to be installed in all public and government buildings first. Prove that they both work and are cheaper to run before pushing this complex tech into people homes. How will insurance cover work with heat pumps given their are few technical engineers trained to diagnose and fix heat pumps let alone install them correctly.

Wonderful, but where does the electricity come from to power the electric heat pumps?

Youll need to come back in a years time to see how theyre getting on!

The chief executive, Energy and Utilities alliance clearly has a biased version of events.

Yes, businesses source heat pumps, but once installed their revenue stops, so what is really their interest in us getting heat pumps?

Also, utility companies care about the consumer. No comment 😂

How do heat pumps in tenement flats work .

In summary, no

No they will not work in any houses that r not a good ratting it’s just a con . They have fitted them to a old housing a state around me and now of to an afford to have them on that says it all

Proper insulated homes with double glazing, ceramic electric radiators & an electric boiler (for hot water only) would suit the majority of homes far more efficiently than a heat-pump.

Looks horrendous, chunk of metal stuck on the side of your house

Didn't say a word about lack of skilled people to install and maintain these heat pumps, installations are done poorly in majority of cases with a few exceptions of excellent installers. Having to learn how to use the system is the first sign of it being bad. I don't need to learn how to use a heating system, it should just work. Do I need to know how the car works? No, I just drive it and fuel up when needed, simple, and does not cost 4x more for the privilege

Because the Tories don't want Russian gas they will force millios to convert to a £13,000 noisy heat pump that will consume far more electricity that one will be scared to turn it on.

Listen...my neighbours gas boiler is keeping me awake at night. Please donate them a heat pump.

They already do...

The concept may work in a well insulated new build or modernised house but the reality in a Victorian listed building with single pane widows, solid walls and with bedroom ceilings only inches from the outside in places its a non starter. Even if it were allowed, then the cost of rippping up the floors, underfloor heating, new double glazed sash windows, internal cladding on the walls (not even possible in the staircase area), totally new radiators and pipes would cost 10's of thousands on top of the the heat pump. Thank god we are on oil so aren't funding other people's grants via subsidies on gas (although we do on electricity which should be stopped). It's a case of buy oil when the price is down, insulate to the max where possible, secondary glazing upstairs and 2 log burners going 24 hours a day as much as we can be bothered with free firewood.

I live in an all electric 2 bed flat. My air source heat pump cost me £2,000 including installation and saves me over £700 a year on my heating. I have no condensation anywhere, all rooms are 21°C, drys my washing on a dryer in about 4 hours and It even collects dust for me. 😂 I clean the filter once every couple of months.

I have a ground source heat pump in central Scotland and even with -7 temps I was only £8 a day for ALL of my electricity in a 2 bed. We do not get weather that cold for longer than a week at a time. The problem isn't heat pumps it's bad set ups, like any tech it needs optimised.

Yes. They are used all the time in Norway, Finland etc for decades. Heat pumps are not new technology by any means.

“We will have to ditch our favourite fuel” - what. The very assumptions of the whole video are BS.

I have a heat pump, it's run fine for the last 5 winters. The house is a 60s built 3 bed semi. There are house that this tech would not work well with. But not that many.