Vaillant have teamed up with Kevin McCloud to present:

Vaillant has teamed up with Kevin McCloud to help demystify the process of heat pump installation, and how modernising with a heat pump has benefited homeowners in a wide variety of homes.

As part of the heat pump challenge, we have also being working to help answer the common queries about the practicalities of installing and living with this type of low-carbon heating technology.

Despite the growing popularity of heat pumps in the UK, recent research has revealed there are still many questions surrounding this heating technology including; how they work in the cold, costs to run and the type of homes they are suitable for.

Vaillant aimed to open the debate surrounding heat pumps and shed light on installing and owning this type of heating technology - by challenging the industry to share their heat pump projects and demonstrate the wide variety of homes for which heat pumps are possible!

“I’ve spent much of my career working with visionary people who have been able to realise their dreams - no matter how ambitious - by building extraordinary homes, despite those around them saying it’s not possible. We’re now in a similar situation in the home energy sector where some have enthusiastically embraced heat pump technology while some people are fearful about reliability and suitability, or simply don’t understand what they are, how they work, and the efficiency benefits they offer.

“Heat pumps are quite different to boilers in the way they operate but they’re very efficient and straightforward. I was an early adopter and chose to put them in my current home too. So, I’m very excited to be part of Vaillant’s Heat Pump Challenge; it’s a first, an opportunity to find out what is happening in the here and now to make heating our homes more efficient and climate friendly. I’m very much looking forward to discovering some great projects and encourage anyone who has installed a heat pump or designed a low carbon heating system for a building project, or just had a heat pump installed, to tell us about it.”