Essex · Heat pump installation
Air Source Heat Pumps in Hare Green
Air source heat pumps in and around Hare Green, from the first look to the final check and a fixed price agreed before any work starts.
- Ageing boilers that will need replacing
- Checking emitters for a heat pump
- Comparing heat pump types
What air conditioning will not do
In fairness, some problems need a different answer:
- Formal advice on VAT for your situation
- Gas boiler work, such as disconnecting the old boiler, which needs a Gas Safe registered engineer
- A grant for a home that doesn’t meet the scheme rules
If you are not sure, just phone 07833 053749 or email us and we will give you a straight answer before booking.
What the work covers
- Air-to-air heat pumps
- Homes heated by oil, LPG or gas
- Air-to-water heat pumps
- Hot water cylinders
- Radiator systems
- Underfloor heating
How we handle air source heat pumps in Hare Green
For an air-to-water heat pump, the price is £8,000–£16,000 (0% VAT on homes), before the grant. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme can provide £7,500 towards an eligible air-to-water system in England and Wales, and as the installer we apply for it on your behalf. Not every home qualifies, so we check eligibility before you commit. If you are dealing with checking whether planning permission is needed and ageing boilers that will need replacing, we can sort it out.
If your home in or near Hare Green is heated by oil, LPG or electric heaters with no mains gas, 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.
If a fault appears while the equipment is under the manufacturer’s warranty, tell us the make, model and installation date. We’ll tell you how the manufacturer’s warranty is likely to apply before any chargeable work goes ahead.
- Location
- Hare Green (CO7)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Credentials
- F-Gas certified company, NICEIC approved, MCS
- Pricing
- A fixed-price quote up front
- Costs
- £8,000–£16,000 (0% VAT on homes), before the grant
- Call
- 07833 053749
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
Towns and villages near Hare Green
More services for Hare Green
What happens if it’s left?
A sudden boiler failure rarely leaves room to plan a heat pump properly. Surveying and designing in advance means the system is sized right and any grant is applied for while the old heating still works. A system that’s left with a fault, or without a service, normally costs more to run.
What you pay reflects the actual work. That’s why we look at the job first, from pictures or on a survey, and the price is agreed before work begins.
What you get with us
- MCS certified heat pump installers
- A reply the same working day
- Covering London and the South East
- Clear warranty information from the manufacturer
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Homes in Hare Green and heat pumps
About 33% of homes in and around Hare Green have been built since 2000, according to VOA council tax data, and the 2021 Census found about 86% of households in detached or semi-detached houses. Newer homes usually lose less heat, which tends to suit a heat pump well. Finding room for the outdoor unit and a cylinder is seldom a problem in homes like these.
If your home is listed, like Castle House about 5 miles north, listed building consent comes before any heat pump work.
Hare Green is about 6 miles east of Colchester, in Essex. Homes and businesses alike in Hare Green, our engineers can help with air source heat pumps. We reply to enquiries the same working day, and there’s a 24/7 emergency line. In Essex alone we list 644 places, and Hare Green is one. The nearest of our city pages is London, around 55 miles from Hare Green.
That includes properties on Back Lane East, Harwich Road and Meadow Close and the roads around them. Our working area takes in CO7 in full. Other places close to Hare Green include Balls Green (1 mile south), Cowey Green (1 mile north), Frating Green (1 mile south), Great Bromley (1 mile north-west) and Monkey Street (1 mile east). Within a short drive, we also cover Colchester (6 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (7 miles south-east), Harwich (10 miles east) and Camulodunum (7 miles west).
Around Hare Green
In Hare Green, that means homes and buildings near Old Courthouse Inn. Hare Green’s nearest station is Great Bentley station, about 2.4 miles south-east. Well-known places in the area include Wivenhoe Chapel Museum (3.5 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Cockaynes Wood.
Signs you need air source heat pumps in Hare Green
Homes with electric heating sometimes look at heat pumps as an alternative. A survey shows whether a heat pump suits the property and what would need to change, and we explain the grant position for your home.
Keep an eye out for these signs:
- Checking eligibility for a heat pump grant
- Working out where a cylinder could go
- Questions about listed buildings or conservation areas
Live in one of the older houses around Church of St George? Expect the survey to look closely at heat loss and at the building’s planning status.
Before booking anyone
- Whether extra work needs your approval first
- Whether the company is F-Gas certified, and whether you can check it
- What paperwork you will receive afterwards
Hare Green: your questions answered
Does the Boiler Upgrade Scheme cover homes in Hare Green?
Hare Green is in England, where the Boiler Upgrade Scheme runs. 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 is not an add-on to a boiler. We hold MCS certification, so the application is ours to make for you.
Do I need planning permission for a heat pump in Hare Green?
It depends on the property. Historic England lists about 3 buildings and structures within half a mile of the centre of Hare Green. On a house, an air source heat pump can often go ahead under permitted development, with an outdoor unit of no more than 1.5 cubic metres and an installation that meets MCS 020(a), which includes a noise check. Those rights do not reach the grounds of a listed building, and conservation areas rule out walls or roofs facing a road. If that might affect you, we ask Tendring council, which is typically the planning authority for Hare Green.
Who has to arrange F-Gas leak checks?
Responsibility is shared between the operator, usually whoever owns or controls the equipment, and the service technicians. How often depends on the size of the refrigerant charge in tonnes of CO2 equivalent: at least yearly for 5 to under 50 tCO2e, and every 6 months for 50 to under 500 tCO2e.
How much does an air source heat pump cost?
Air-to-water work is in the £8,000–£16,000 range (0% VAT on homes), with any grant still to come off. Where you land depends on the size of heat pump, any radiators that need changing and the hot water cylinder, and air-to-air systems are priced after a survey.
Can I do any of the installation myself?
Not the refrigerant work. The F-gas rules require certified companies and qualified engineers for it, and a new circuit is notifiable under Part P unless a registered electrician, such as a NICEIC approved contractor, does it.
Why does F-Gas certification matter?
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 AirCon Doctor is certified.
Are you F-Gas certified?
We hold F-Gas company certification, which the law requires for any business working on refrigerant. We are also NICEIC approved, MCS certified for heat pumps and Checkatrade members.
What we do, step by step
There’s very little for you to do on the day. Someone needs to let us in and show us the units, or where they’re going, and the rest is down to us. Before we leave, the area is tidied and we explain what we have done. Visits to Hare Green are agreed with you in advance and planned so the job can be finished in one trip where possible.
- First, a chat about the property and your goals for the heating.
- We survey for heat loss and look at radiators, cylinder space and outdoor unit options.
- We explain which type of heat pump suits the home and whether a grant could apply.
- We install the heat pump and connect it up.
- We commission it, complete the MCS certificate and show you how to use it.
Preparing for the visit
- Keep pets out of the rooms we’re working in
- Mention any roof access, ladders or high-level work
- Name a contact who can meet us at the agreed time
Getting a price
The quickest way to a quote is to send photos: the inside and outside of the property where the work is, plus the rating plate of any unit already there. Tell us the address and what you need, and simple jobs can often be priced without a visit.
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A customer’s words
“Very professional from the initial survey through to installation. The engineer explained everything clearly and the quote was exactly what we paid. Would not hesitate to recommend AirCon Doctor.”
David W., Haywards Heath