Heat pumps in Felling
Air source quotes across Felling's NE10 streets: complete systems at £8,000 to £14,000 before the £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme payment, with the district's compact estate and former colliery housing among the cheapest conversions going. Every price comes from a measured, room-by-room MCS survey.
Pit village bones, modern heating questions
Felling grew as a colliery community and the housing still shows it: short terraced rows, later estate building around them, and generally modest floor areas. For heating purposes that is an advantage. Small volumes mean small calculated demands, usually 4kW to 7kW, and small demands mean smaller machines, lighter emitter work and prices near the bottom of the range. The older rows need the standard fabric attention first, loft and draughts, but they are far less demanding than a three-storey villa a mile up the hill.
Electric heating is the big opportunity
Plenty of properties around Felling and toward Leam Lane still heat with storage or panel heaters. Those households have the most to gain from switching, because they are currently paying one unit of electricity for one unit of warmth while a heat pump delivers two and a half to three. Half to two thirds off the heating electricity, £500 to £900 a year in most cases, and the full £7,500 grant available since electric heating counts as the outgoing system.
Access, yards and neighbours
Terraced rows here often share a rear lane, so pipe routing, machine position and future servicing access are agreed during the survey with the neighbours' windows in mind as well as your own. It is a five-minute conversation at the right stage and a genuine nuisance at the wrong one.
What gets quoted here
Complete air source installations, replacements, annual servicing, standalone heat loss surveys and BUS grant applications handled throughout.