What Retirement Actually Looks Like After 50 Years In The Trade w/ Steve & Mark Hall

How are you finding heat pumps? There's very mixed opinions in the industry about how that's been taken on board.

What do you think, Dad? And then I'll say

what I

think.

From what I can glean, I think they're good in the right application.

I think some of them appear to be not in store to the best standard and end up costing the people money and maybe getting a bad name.

But, you know, heat pumps, why aren't they going in every brand new house?

I'm really into system design and last six, six or seven years of doing heat key course, Northampton heating academy, that kind of thing.

And I've applied it in my house.

I've got a 300 year old house fully needed a full renovation.

I've put a 24 radiator heating system in with a heat pump, single heat pump, single pump.

circulator and it's absolutely amazing our energy bills have dropped 1500 pounds compared to oil at least especially with oil prices at the moment we're warm 24 7. it's been such a good shout for us but It is a very fussy technology, so the bad press comes from bad experiences, and those experiences are true.

People are uncomfortable, not warm, and they've got high energy costs, and that's because not heat pumps are bad because they're a fantastic technology.

It's how you apply it to a wet central heating system.

So pipe sizing, radiator sizing, hydraulic separation, whether you need it or not, which often you don't.

95% only need one pump from the heat pump.

And if you get it right, it's so much cheaper than gas, oil, everything.

If you don't, it can be more expensive and you can go really wrong with it.

So technology, fantastic.

How it's applied is the variable.

Have you been finding a decent uptick in business with that? And do you feel that heat pump training was worthwhile investment?

I do.

For me, my new business, I'm in a rural area, so a lot of people are on oil or gas.

The grant is £9,000 now to replace your LPG or oil boiler with a heat pump.

That's got a lot of interest recently.