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Arborfield air source heat pumps
Air source heat pumps for Arborfield, from F-Gas certified engineers, with the manufacturer’s warranty terms explained on your quote. Enquiries answered the same working day.
- Working out whether radiators need upsizing
- Choosing between air-to-water and air-to-air
- Plans to switch to electric heating with a heat pump
What affects the cost of air source heat pumps
Our prices page gives typical ranges, and your quote is built on your job. The quote depends on:
- Whether the existing supply is suitable
- Whether we need access equipment for high-level work
- The equipment or parts the job needs
Several rooms, units or sites on one quote often makes better use of the time. Mention every unit or room you need covered and we’ll price it together.
What we need to know
A few details help us quote accurately. When you get in touch, it helps to send:
- The fuse board and where it is in the property
- The outdoor side of the property, including any roof or flat area
- Any error code or flashing light on the display
Our prices page gives typical ranges, but your quote is based on your job, because no two buildings, rooms or systems are the same. Once we have looked at the job, from photos or on a survey, you get a fixed price. To get going, give us a ring on 07833 053749 or drop us a line.
About our air source heat pumps in Arborfield
A £2,500 grant is available for some air-to-air heat pumps, with conditions. It has to replace the fossil-fuel heating, cover the whole heating demand, be fitted by an MCS certified installer and be in a home, so an add-on next to a boiler is not eligible. Typical jobs include no space for a hot water cylinder and deciding on the outdoor unit position, across homes heated by oil, LPG or gas, air-to-water heat pumps and underfloor heating.
For a home around Arborfield that’s off mains gas and heated by oil or LPG, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme adds an extra £1,500 until March 2027 for an air source or ground source heat pump, on top of the £7,500.
Nothing is signed off by word of mouth: commissioning details and F-Gas records for a new system, a note of the fault and the fix for a repair, or a service record. Keep it with the system’s paperwork so it’s to hand next time.
- Location
- Arborfield (RG2)
- Wider area
- Reading
- Price
- Fixed after a survey or photos
- Costs
- Air-to-water £8,000–£16,000 before any grant (0% VAT for homes)
- Credentials
- F-Gas certified, NICEIC approved, MCS
- Telephone
- 07833 053749
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
How the visit works
Anything involving refrigerant is handled by F-Gas qualified engineers, as the law requires, while the electrical side is covered by our NICEIC approval. On the day, both are in the same hands. On site, it takes several days for an air-to-water system with a new cylinder, less for an air-to-air system. We plan the trip to Arborfield around you.
- Step one is understanding the house, how it’s heated today and what you’d like to change.
- The survey measures heat loss room by room and looks at radiators, hot water and the best spot for the outdoor unit.
- The price comes back fixed and in writing, with the grant and VAT shown line by line.
- Installation covers the outdoor unit, the indoor connections and the controls.
- Commissioning, MCS certification and a handover of the controls finish the job.
How to prepare
- Let us know where the consumer unit is
- Mention any parking restrictions near the property
- Keep pets and children away from the work area
Getting a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the room or the existing unit, the outside wall or roof where the outdoor unit sits or would go, and the label on any existing unit. Add the address and what you’d like done, and simple jobs can often be priced without a visit.
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For landlords and property managers
Running several properties is easier with one contractor. Our area covers Greater London and the South East, so work at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.
We work for landlords, letting agents and managing agents as well as homeowners and businesses. Tell us who the contact on site is and who should receive the paperwork, and we’ll keep everyone informed.
Your questions about air source heat pumps in Arborfield
Is planning permission needed for a heat pump in Arborfield?
The answer turns on the property and where the outdoor unit would sit. Central Arborfield sits inside a conservation area. Heat pumps on houses are often permitted development, but listed buildings need consent and conservation areas restrict outdoor units facing a road. Where it’s needed, we check with the planning department at Wokingham council, normally the authority for Arborfield.
Does the Boiler Upgrade Scheme cover homes in Arborfield?
Arborfield is covered, as the scheme runs across England and Wales. For an air-to-water heat pump the amount is £7,500; an air-to-air system can get £2,500 if it replaces the fossil-fuel heating outright, meets the home’s full heating demand and isn’t an add-on to a boiler. The installer applies, and we are MCS certified.
Can I do the refrigerant work myself?
No, not the refrigerant side. Under the F-gas rules, it must be done by qualified engineers from a certified company, and a new electrical circuit is notifiable building work unless a registered competent person does it.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. Every job is looked at first, on a survey, or from your pictures and details where the job is simple. A fixed-price quote follows.
Is Arborfield in your area?
Yes. Our area takes in London and the counties of the South East, and that includes Arborfield.
Is the equipment covered by a warranty?
Warranty is the manufacturer’s own, on its terms. Terms differ by brand, and we set them out on your quote.
How much time does a heat pump install need?
The work takes anything from a couple of days for air-to-air to the best part of a week for air-to-water with radiator changes. We confirm the timing after the survey, so phone us on 07833 053749 or email us to arrange one.
What a heat pump looks like in Arborfield
The Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures show about 53% of homes across Arborfield and its surrounding area were built in 2000 or later, and the last census (2021) found about 62% of households in detached or semi-detached houses. Better insulated, newer homes are often a good match for a heat pump. Houses typically have space for an outdoor unit and a hot water cylinder.
Period properties close to Church of St Bartholomew can suit a heat pump, though insulation and any heritage protection are checked first. Sizing comes from the heat each room loses on a cold day, not from the size of the old boiler.
Arborfield is about 3 miles west of Wokingham, in Reading. Arborfield gets the same approach as every job we take on: diagnosis first, a fixed price and proper paperwork when we’ve finished. 34 places in Reading are on our list, from busy centres to quieter spots. The nearest of our city pages is Guildford, around 18 miles from Arborfield.
Not far from Arborfield, a recent job of ours was on Princess Way, Camberley (GU15), about 9 miles south-east: installing a Samsung VRF system serving twelve rooms across two floors, including open-plan working areas, individual offices, a server room and a boardroom.
From Church Lane, Walden Avenue and Cartershill Lane to the smaller roads in between, the whole area is covered. Our working area takes in RG2. Close to Arborfield, our area also takes in Shinfield (2 miles west), Lower Earley (2 miles north), Ryeish Green (2 miles west), Earley (2 miles north) and Whitley Wood (2 miles north-west). Further out, we also cover Caversham (6 miles north-west), Norcot (6 miles north-west), West Reading (5 miles north-west) and Tilehurst Within (6 miles north-west).
Near you in Arborfield
Typical jobs here are in properties near Swan Inn, Bohunt School Wokingham and Pearman's Copse, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Winnersh station, roughly 2.5 miles north-east. A little further out are Wokingham Hospital (3 miles east) and Berkshire Library & Museum of Freemasonry (1.8 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s South Lake and Sonning Hill.
How the job changes from property to property
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme covers England and Wales: £7,500 for air-to-water (and ground source), and £2,500 for air-to-air with strict conditions. The application goes through the installer.
VAT on heat pumps
Installing an air source heat pump in a home is zero-rated until 31 March 2027, then 5% following HMRC’s rules on energy-saving materials. It does not apply to businesses.
From one of our customers
“Excellent service from start to finish. Two wall-mounted units installed in our home. Clean, tidy work: they protected all the floors and left no mess. The systems work brilliantly. Would highly recommend.”
Sarah M., East Grinstead