Hampshire · Heat pump installation
Heat pump installation in Toothill, Hampshire
Air source heat pumps in Toothill from an F-Gas certified company, with warranty terms explained brand by brand. We reply to enquiries the same working day.
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Toothill: your questions answered
Will you come out to Toothill?
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.
Is a heat pump in Toothill permitted development?
The answer turns on the property and where the outdoor unit would sit. The half-mile around the middle of Toothill holds about 3 listed buildings and structures. 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 the local planning authority (for Toothill, usually Test Valley council).
Am I eligible for a heat pump grant?
Quite possibly. In England and Wales it pays £7,500 for an eligible air-to-water or ground source heat pump, and £2,500 for air-to-air under tighter rules. Until March 2027 there’s an extra £1,500 for air source or ground source heat pumps in homes on oil or LPG with no mains gas. The survey is where we check your home against them.
Which accreditations do you hold?
As the law requires for refrigerant work, we’re an F-Gas certified company. NICEIC approval, MCS certification for heat pumps and Checkatrade membership sit alongside it.
Can I fit air conditioning or a heat pump 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.
Will you work on another installer’s system?
Yes. Systems fitted by other companies are fine from all the leading brands. Tell us the make and model and send any paperwork you have.
How do you keep the place clean during the work?
Protection goes down first: sheets over the floor and nearby furniture. Holes and fixings are agreed with you, and we clean up afterwards before we leave.
About our air source heat pumps in Toothill
Many air source heat pumps can be installed as permitted development in England, without a planning application. The conditions include an outdoor unit of no more than 1.5 m³ and compliance with MCS 020(a), and the unit cannot be used solely for cooling or sit within the curtilage of a listed building. We look at the planning position for your home during the survey. The work covers radiator systems, hot water cylinders and underfloor heating, and the jobs we see most are planning and permitted development questions and radiators that may be too small for a heat pump.
Older and listed homes in villages like Toothill need extra care, because permitted development does not apply within the grounds of a listed building, so we check consent first.
Whatever the visit, you get a written record: commissioning details for an installation, a fault and repair note for a repair, or a record of the service. File it with the manual, because it helps with any later warranty question.
- Location
- Toothill (SO51)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Accreditations
- F-Gas certified company, NICEIC approved, MCS
- Enquiries
- On the working day you ask
- Price
- A fixed price before work begins
- Prices
- Air-to-water £8,000–£16,000 before any grant (0% VAT for homes)
- Call
- 07833 053749
- Updated
- 30 October 2026
What the work involves, system by system
Air-to-water heat pumps
An air-to-water heat pump heats water for your radiators or underfloor heating and your hot water cylinder. It takes over from the boiler and we install it to MCS standards.
Hot water cylinders
An older cylinder may not suit a heat pump and we tell you if it needs replacing.
The process
The visit goes in the diary at a time that works for you, and we keep you posted if anything changes. On arrival, the engineer compares the job with the survey, your photos or the details you gave us. If something is different, we talk it through with you before carrying on. From there, 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. If a lane or gateway near Toothill is tight for a van, let us know and we will plan for it.
- 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.
- Installation covers the outdoor unit, the indoor connections and the controls.
- Once it’s running correctly, the MCS certificate is issued and we show you the settings.
Before we arrive
- Clear access to the fuse board
- Dig out any previous service or F-Gas records
- Let us know if the building has a permit or sign-in process
Ask for a quote
Every quote shows the VAT clearly, and the rate that applies to your job is stated. VAT can differ between homes and businesses and between kinds of work, so we confirm it on the quote. To get one, ring us on 07833 053749.
Advice
Leave it or put it right?
For eligible off-gas homes on oil or LPG, an extra £1,500 is on offer until March 2027. If that applies to you, it’s worth asking about sooner rather than later. An early booking makes the visit to Toothill easier to arrange.
The price reflects the work, not guesswork. That’s why we look at the job first, from photos or on a survey, and why the quote is fixed before any work starts.
Why people in Toothill choose us
- NICEIC approved for electrical work
- Leading brands including Daikin, Mitsubishi Electric and Fujitsu
- F-Gas company certification
- Manufacturer’s warranty terms explained on your quote
Read our cost guide and our accreditations.
What owners can safely do
For air conditioning, cleaning the indoor unit’s filters is the main job owners can do where the manufacturer’s manual explains how. They come out, get a gentle clean and go back only when they’re dry. On a heat pump, the equivalent is keeping the outdoor unit clear and checking the controls.
Leave the units and pipework where they are. Moving a unit involves the refrigerant circuit, so it needs an F-Gas qualified engineer, and the electrics need care too. Ask us to quote for a move instead.
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Heat pumps in Toothill: local notes
Census 2021 figures found about 76% of households in detached or semi-detached houses. Finding room for the outdoor unit and a cylinder is seldom a problem in homes like these.
Historic houses such as South Stoneham House, about 4.3 miles south-east, are a reminder that listed homes need consent before a heat pump goes in. Older homes near Church of St John may need extra checks for planning and heat loss before a heat pump is designed.
Toothill is about 2 miles south of Romsey, in Hampshire. Properties in Toothill get the same service as everywhere we cover: a look at the job first, a fixed-price quote and written records at the end. Count every place we list in Hampshire and you reach 683, with Toothill on the list. We also work in Guildford, about 43 miles from Toothill.
We cover every part of SO51 and the roads nearby. We also cover the places around Toothill: Ashfield (1 mile west), Upton (1 mile south), Lee (1 mile west), Rownhams (1 mile south-east) and North Baddesley (1 mile north-east). Larger places within reach include Winchester (9 miles north-east), Eastleigh (5 miles east), Fareham (14 miles south-east) and Totton (4 miles south-west).
Around Toothill
The nearest railway station is Romsey station, roughly 2.3 miles north-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Romsey Community Hospital (2.1 miles north) and King Johns House (2.4 miles north-west). For a walk, there’s Emer Bog and Baddesley Common.
What a customer said
“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