What are heat pumps?

Heat pumps at The Alliance

An air pump transfers air from outside your home to water inside your home, this then heats your home via radiators or underfloor heating. This clever solution can also be used to heat water stored in a cylinder that can then be used to supply taps and showers. The technology works by absorbing air into a liquid, the liquid then passes a heat exchanger to the heat pump, raising the temperature and transferring the heat to water.

Air source heat pumps are a great alternative to your old boiler, helping to provide heat and hot water for your home. Valley Heritage installed an air source heat pump at the old Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank building in Bacup, Rossendale.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank heat pump project

As part of their restoration project on the old Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank building in Bacup, Valley Heritage has installed several air source heat pumps. This project means they are not only giving an old building a new lease of life but a greener one too.

If you’d like to find out how the air source heat pump works at the old Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank building, and view a live feed readout of the energy converted and how it is used in the building, then contact us.

Many UK suppliers now offer deals on heat pumps, so you might be eligible for help with the cost of funding a heat pump; check with your energy company to see if they have a scheme available. Funding is also available via the government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme. If you are eligible, you could get £7,500 off the cost and installation of an air source heat pump.

There are many companies supplying air source heat pumps. Kensa Heat Pumps is a popular leading company, and they have a really useful section on their website talking about different funding options.