Heat pump repair

Heat pump repairs

I do heat pump repairs and the related work.

• Faults, including no heat or no hot water
• Error codes
• Pressure and water-side issues
• Controls
• Cylinder and immersion issues
• Checks on an existing system

New installs

New installs are done under the manufacturer's MCS scheme.

An air source heat pump sits outside and feeds a wet heating system. The heat goes to radiators, underfloor heating, or both, and to a hot water cylinder.

It suits a house being built or extended, or a heating system being changed over. I look at the radiators, the pipework and the hot water before I say if a heat pump is the right job.

What the job involves

• The outdoor unit, sited with air around it and a solid base
• Pipework into the house, and the controls
• A cylinder for the hot water
• Radiators or underfloor heating, checked so the rooms still heat at a lower temperature

What I check

• Where the outdoor unit can go, and how the pipes get inside
• Whether the radiators or the underfloor can heat the rooms
• The cylinder, the valves and the controls
• How you will run it day to day, so it is set up before I leave

1. Tell me about the house and send photos of the heating and the hot water.
2. I come and look at the system, the space outside, and what the rooms need.
3. I fit the outdoor unit, the pipework, the cylinder and the controls, and I test it.
4. I show you how it runs before I leave. If a gas boiler has to come off, that part is a Gas Safe engineer.

I've fitted Mitsubishi Ecodan, Grant Aerona and Vaillant aroTHERM heat pumps.

On a large house in Alderley Edge the job was the plumbing and heating throughout, including the heat pumps and the underfloor heating. See the project.

I don't do boiler or gas work. Taking a gas boiler off the wall is a Gas Safe job.

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