Essex · Heat pump installation
Air Source Heat Pumps in Great Berry
F-Gas certified and NICEIC approved, we cover Great Berry for MCS certified installation of air source heat pumps for heating and hot water, with the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant applied for. A fixed price before any work starts, and a 24/7 emergency line.
- Comparing heat pump types
- Checking eligibility for a heat pump grant
- Questions about where the outdoor unit can go
About our air source heat pumps in Great Berry
An air-to-water heat pump costs £8,000–£16,000 (0% VAT on homes), before the grant. In England and Wales, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme offers a £7,500 grant towards an eligible air-to-water installation and the installer makes the application. Eligibility depends on the property, so we confirm it before anything is agreed. Common call-outs are for moving away from fossil-fuel heating and a boiler that’s getting old, across homes heated by oil, LPG or gas, radiator systems and underfloor heating.
If your home near Great Berry has no mains gas, the grant can be bigger. Until March 2027, homes on oil or LPG without mains gas can get an extra £1,500 through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
If a fault appears while the equipment is under the manufacturer’s warranty, tell us the make, model and installation date. We will explain how the manufacturer’s terms are likely to apply before any chargeable work goes ahead.
- Location
- Great Berry (SS16, SS15, CM13)
- Region
- Essex
- Replies
- Answered the same working day
- Quotes
- Fixed-price quote after a site survey
- Accreditations
- NICEIC and F-Gas, MCS
- Prices
- £8,000–£16,000 before the grant, 0% VAT on homes
- Call
- 07833 053749
- Page updated
- 30 October 2026
Common problems we fix in Great Berry
An ageing boiler is often the moment people start thinking about a heat pump. Planning the change before the boiler fails gives you time to survey, design and apply for any grant instead of making a rushed decision when the heating stops.
Common reasons people call us are:
- Choosing between air-to-water and air-to-air
- Replacing a combi boiler with a heat pump
- Questions about listed buildings or conservation areas
Homeowners near Laindon station often ask whether a heat pump can take over from the boiler, and the heat loss survey answers that.
What your quote should include
- Whether extra work needs your approval first
- Whether a new circuit is included and who certifies it
- What the manufacturer’s warranty covers and for how long
Let and managed properties
If you look after several properties, we can plan visits across the portfolio and price them together. Every address has its own paperwork, so the files stay tidy.
Records are where property maintenance often slips. Each visit produces a dated record, plus the F-Gas records where refrigerant is involved, so you can show what was done and when.
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Great Berry questions
Can you do air source heat pumps in Great Berry?
Yes, Great Berry is within the area we cover. Get in touch with the details and we reply the same working day.
Is Great Berry within the area you cover?
We do. Villages and hamlets get the same service as the bigger towns. Visits to smaller places are planned so the engineer arrives with what the job needs.
Am I eligible for a heat pump grant?
It depends on your home and the system. In England and Wales, the scheme offers £7,500 towards an eligible air-to-water or ground source heat pump, and £2,500 towards an air-to-air heat pump only in limited cases. We check before you commit.
Which manufacturers do you install and repair?
We install and work on the leading makes, including Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Toshiba, LG, Samsung, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi. Tell us the make and model and we will take it from there.
Do you work on systems someone else installed?
Yes. We work on systems fitted by other installers as well as our own from all the leading brands. Tell us the make and model and send any paperwork you have.
Can we book visits on a schedule?
Yes. Maintenance contracts are part of what we do, set at the interval the system and the manufacturer’s terms need. Each visit is recorded and F-Gas records kept where they apply.
How much VAT is charged on a heat pump in a home?
Under HMRC Notice 708/6, a heat pump installed in a home is zero-rated until 31 March 2027 and 5% after that. For air-to-air systems, we confirm the VAT on your quote.
Air source heat pumps in Great Berry: the local picture
The 2021 Census found about 66% of households in detached or semi-detached houses. Houses usually have space for an outdoor unit and a hot water cylinder. At about 22 miles from central London, Great Berry sits inside the area we cover across London and the South East.
Period properties close to St John can suit a heat pump, though insulation and any heritage protection are checked first.
Great Berry is about 2 miles west of Basildon, in Essex. We cover Great Berry for air source heat pumps and across the rest of Essex. Great Berry is one of 644 towns, villages and districts in Essex where we work for homes and businesses. Bromley, roughly 20 miles off, has its own page on this site.
All of SS16, SS15 and CM13 is within our area, from busy streets to back roads. From New Avenue, Coburg Lane and West Avenue to the smaller roads in between, nowhere is left out. Close to Great Berry, our area also takes in Langdon Hills (1 mile south-east), Laindon (1 mile north-east), Lee Chapel (2 miles east), Steeple View (2 miles north-east) and Basildon (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include Chelmsford (12 miles north), Brentwood (6 miles north-west), Canvey Island (8 miles east) and Billericay (4 miles north).
Near you in Great Berry
Locally, jobs take us to houses, flats and workplaces close to Gloucester Park and The James Hornsby School, among other places. Great Berry’s nearest station is Laindon station, about 0.7 miles east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Basildon University Hospital (1.9 miles east) and Eastgate Shopping Centre (2.2 miles east). For a walk, there’s Langdon Nature Reserve.
The process
Protection comes first: dust sheets over floors and furniture near the work, and we ask before moving anything. Then the electrics are made safe and the work begins. The work on site 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, and we tidy up before we leave. Tell us about any gates or steps at your property near Great Berry when you book.
- We talk through your home, your current heating and what you want from a heat pump.
- On the visit we calculate what every room loses on a cold day, then check the radiators, room for a cylinder and outdoor unit options.
- A fixed-price quote follows, setting out the system, any grant that applies and the VAT.
- The outdoor unit, the indoor equipment and the controls are installed and connected.
- Once it’s running correctly, the MCS certificate is issued and we show you the settings.
How to prepare
- Keep pets and children away from the work area
- Arrange for someone to be there to let us in
- Move furniture away from the wall where we will be working
Ask for a quote
The quickest way to a quote is to send pictures: 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 many jobs can be priced from that.
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Different systems, different jobs
Radiators and underfloor heating
If radiators need upsizing, the quote lists them, so you know the full scope.
VAT on heat pumps
HMRC says most air conditioning units are air source heat pumps, but each case depends on the facts and the VAT is confirmed on your quote.
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