Oxfordshire · Heat pump installation
Air Source Heat Pumps in Emmington
Air source heat pumps, for Emmington and the surrounding area. Call for a fixed-price quote; we reply the same working day.
- Wanting to stop using oil, LPG or gas for heating
- Questions about listed buildings or conservation areas
- Questions about the Boiler Upgrade Scheme
Emmington: your questions answered
Will you come out to Emmington?
Yes, smaller places are covered as well as towns. Send a few details and photos, and we reply the same working day.
Can I get the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant in Emmington?
Emmington is covered, as the scheme runs across England and Wales. It gives £7,500 towards an air-to-water or ground source heat pump, or £2,500 towards an air-to-air heat pump that replaces the fossil-fuel heating and meets the whole home’s heating need. We hold MCS certification, so the application is ours to make for you.
Can you come out in an emergency?
Yes. If something urgent happens, like water coming from a unit or a critical room overheating, call our 24/7 line and we will tell you what to do first.
Is there a survey before the work?
Yes. For simple jobs, pictures and a few details can be enough, while larger systems and faults that need testing are seen on site.
What’s the difference between air-to-water and air-to-air heat pumps?
Air-to-water heats radiators or underfloor heating and hot water; air-to-air heats rooms through indoor units and can cool them. Air-to-air does not heat hot water and the survey helps decide.
How much time does a heat pump install need?
Expect it to take a few days on site, depending on the cylinder, the radiators and the pipework involved. The cylinder, the radiators and the pipework make the biggest difference and the timing is set out with your quote.
What does F-Gas certified mean?
F-Gas certification shows a company is approved to work on equipment containing fluorinated gases, such as the refrigerant in air conditioning and heat pumps. That isn’t optional: it’s required by law, and we hold it.
How we handle air source heat pumps in Emmington
Air-to-water heat pumps heat your hot water through a cylinder. If you have a combi boiler and no cylinder, the survey looks at where one could go. Air-to-air systems do not heat hot water, so you’ll need another way to do that. If the problem is not knowing whether a grant applies and ageing boilers that will need replacing, we can sort it out.
Older and listed homes in villages like Emmington need extra care, because permitted development doesn’t apply within the grounds of a listed building, so consent comes first.
AirCon Doctor is an F-Gas certified company and NICEIC approved for electrical work, MCS certified for heat pumps and a Checkatrade member. Our engineers hold the F-gas qualifications needed to work on refrigerant.
- Location
- Emmington (OX39)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Accreditations
- F-Gas certified, NICEIC approved, MCS
- Guide price
- Air-to-water £8,000–£16,000 before any grant (0% VAT for homes)
- Quotes
- A fixed-price quote up front
- Phone
- 07833 053749
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
The process
Wherever the system can be run before we leave, we run it and check it in operation. Then we show you what we’ve done and answer any questions, and anything that needs attention later is pointed out. The visit 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. Photos of the room and the outside of the property help us plan a visit to Emmington.
- Step one is understanding the house, how it’s heated today and what you’d like to change.
- We survey the home room by room for heat loss, and check the emitters, hot water and outdoor unit position.
- The price comes back fixed and in writing, with the grant and VAT shown line by line.
- We fit the outdoor unit and connect it to the heating, hot water and 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 roof access, ladders or high-level work
- Arrange for someone to be there to let us in
Get a fixed-price quote
Quoting starts with a diagnosis, either on a site survey or, for simple jobs, from your pictures and details. After that, we send a fixed price so you know the cost before we begin.
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Safe owner checks
Keep a note of anything odd: error codes, noises, drips, smells or a drop in performance. It makes our diagnosis quicker, and a photo of the display helps even more.
There are a few things you can safely do yourself: keeping the outdoor unit clear, checking the mode and set temperature, and the routine cleaning in the manual. Opening up the units, the electrics and the refrigerant circuit are a job for us.
Managing agents and facilities teams in Emmington
Portfolio owners often want one contractor and one number. We work across London and the South East, so a run of properties can go into one programme and kept on a regular cycle.
Under the GB F-gas rules, responsibility for leak checks is shared between whoever operates the equipment and the engineers who work on it. In a let or managed building, it’s worth agreeing who that operator is and we are happy to deal with whoever it is.
Homes in Emmington and heat pumps
The last census (2021) found about 75% of households in detached or semi-detached houses. Detached and semi-detached houses usually have room for the outdoor unit and a cylinder. On the National Heritage List, around 14 entries fall within 0.5 miles of the middle of Emmington; Church of St Nicholas (grade II*) is one. So the heat pump survey asks two extra questions here: is the home listed, and is it inside a conservation area?
Live in one of the older houses around Church of St Nicholas? Expect the survey to look closely at heat loss and at the building’s planning status. With Adwell House about 3 miles south-west, it’s worth asking whether your own home is listed before planning a heat pump.
Emmington is about 3 miles south-east of Thame, in Oxfordshire. Homes and businesses alike in Emmington, our engineers can help with air source heat pumps. You’ll hear back from us the same working day, and there’s a 24/7 emergency line. Across Oxfordshire, we cover 443 places, Emmington among them. Guildford, roughly 36 miles off, has its own page on this site.
All of OX39 is covered. Places around Emmington that are also on our list: Sydenham (1 mile south-west), Kingston Stert (1 mile south-west), Chinnor (1 mile south-east), Towersey (2 miles north) and Thame (3 miles north-west). Larger places within reach include Oxford (13 miles west), Didcot (15 miles south-west), Abingdon-on-Thames (15 miles west) and Henley-on-Thames (13 miles south).
What’s near Emmington
Locally, jobs take us to houses, flats and workplaces close to The Inn at Emmington, among other places. Emmington’s nearest station is Princes Risborough station, roughly 3.8 miles east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Thame Museum (3.1 miles north-west) and Thame Community Hospital (2.6 miles north-west). The countryside around Emmington includes Bald Hill and Oakley Hill nature reserve.
When it’s something else
Before booking, it helps to know what’s not included:
- Improving the building’s insulation
- Tax rulings, which only HMRC can give
- Grants for hybrid systems or replacements of low-carbon systems
If you’re not sure, just call us on 07833 053749, or email if that’s easier and we’ll give you a straight answer before you book.
Where we work
- Homes heated by oil, LPG or gas
- Hot water cylinders
- Underfloor heating
- Radiator systems
- Air-to-air heat pumps
- Air-to-water heat pumps
A customer’s words
“Office air con broke down in the July heatwave. Called at 8am, engineer was here by noon and fixed within 2 hours. Brilliant emergency response. They now hold the service contract for the whole building.”
James T., Crawley, office manager