Slough · Heat pump installation
Heat pump installation in Wexham Street, Slough
Air source heat pumps in and around Wexham Street, from the first look to the final check and a fixed price agreed before any work starts.
- Finding a place for the outdoor unit
- Not knowing whether a grant applies
- Plans to switch to electric heating with a heat pump
Air source heat pumps in Wexham Street
Air-to-air heat pumps can qualify for a £2,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant, but only in some cases. The system must replace the existing fossil-fuel heating and meet the home’s full heating demand, it must be installed by an MCS certified installer, and it must be in a home, so an add-on next to a boiler is not eligible. Common call-outs are for working out where a cylinder could go and working out whether radiators need upsizing, across hot water cylinders, air-to-water heat pumps and underfloor heating.
If your home in or near Wexham Street 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.
Any work on the refrigerant circuit is recorded: what was done, the refrigerant type and any amount added or recovered. File them with the system’s paperwork, ready for the next service or a warranty query.
- Location
- Wexham Street (SL2, SL3)
- Wider area
- Slough
- Prices
- Air-to-water £8,000–£16,000 before any grant (0% VAT for homes)
- Accreditations
- F-Gas certified, NICEIC approved, MCS
- Pricing
- Fixed-price quote after a site survey
- Call
- 07833 053749
- Reviewed
- 30 October 2026
What happens if it’s left?
Permitted development rules can change, and conditions vary between properties. Checking the position for your home at the survey stage avoids surprises later covering listed buildings, conservation areas and any Article 4 direction. An early booking makes the visit to Wexham Street easier to arrange.
The cost depends on the system and the number of rooms or units, the access and the parts and time the job needs. We give you a fixed price before we start, so there are no surprises.
What you get with us
- Checkatrade member
- Clear warranty information from the manufacturer
- We reply to enquiries the same working day
- We diagnose before we treat
Take a look at what air conditioning costs or our accreditations.
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The process
There’s very little for you to do on the day. Just let us in and point us to the units, or to where they’ll be fitted, and the rest is down to us. At the end, we tidy up and run through the work with you. Somewhere like Wexham Street, it helps to know about lanes, gates and where to park.
- We find out about your home and the heating you have now.
- We measure heat loss for every room.
- We design the system, check the radiators and cylinder and look at the outdoor unit position.
- Cost, grant and VAT appear on one fixed-price quote.
- Then it’s fitted, commissioned and registered with MCS.
Before we arrive
- Make sure someone can let us in at the agreed time
- Let us know where we can park and unload
- Let us know where the consumer unit is
How to get a quote
Every quote shows the VAT clearly, with the rate that applies to your job. VAT can differ between homes and businesses and between kinds of work, so we confirm it on the quote. For a fixed-price quote, phone 07833 053749 or use the quote form.
Related advice
What affects the quote in Wexham Street
Some jobs are bigger than they look, and some smaller. The main factors:
- Whether the existing supply is suitable
- Whether we need access equipment for high-level work
- The brand, model and parts involved
One room or a whole building, the quote is built the same way: what needs doing, how we get to it and what it needs. The price is fixed before work begins, with VAT shown clearly.
What we need to know
Good pictures often save a visit. Try to include:
- Your installation or service records
- The postcode and whether it’s a home, flat or business
- A close-up of the unit’s label showing the model number
Published ranges are a starting point; the quote is built on your property, because no two buildings, rooms or systems are the same. Once we have looked at the job, from pictures or on a survey, you get a fixed price. To start, call us on 07833 053749 or use the quote form.
Your questions about air source heat pumps in Wexham Street
Will you come out to Wexham Street?
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.
Do I need planning permission for a heat pump in Wexham Street?
There’s no single answer: the building and the outdoor unit position decide it. Central Wexham Street is a short walk from the Framewood Road Conservation Area. A heat pump on a house can be permitted development if it meets the conditions, including the MCS noise check, but not within the grounds of a listed building, and in a conservation area the outdoor unit can’t face a road. Where needed, we check with the local planning authority (for Wexham Street, normally Buckinghamshire council).
When will I hear back?
You will hear from us the same working day. If it’s an emergency, ring the 24/7 line instead.
Do you offer emergency call-outs?
Yes. For anything urgent, such as a system failing in a server room or water leaking from a unit, ring our 24/7 line and we will agree what happens next.
How long does a heat pump installation take?
As a guide, it 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 plan the work so you’re without heating for as little time as possible, and we explain it in advance.
Am I eligible for a heat pump grant?
We check the scheme rules for your property before you go ahead. As the installer, we make the application where you qualify.
Why does F-Gas certification matter?
Companies working on equipment that contains F gas must be certified by an approved body, and the engineers need their own qualifications. It means the refrigerant in your system is handled legally.
What you can do yourself, and what needs us
On air conditioning, the filters in the indoor unit are usually the one part owners can clean 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.
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. Anything inside the units, the electrics and the refrigerant is engineer’s work.
Air source heat pumps in Wexham Street: the local picture
Census 2021 figures found about 67% of households in detached or semi-detached houses. Detached and semi-detached houses typically have room for the outdoor unit and a cylinder.
Live in one of the older houses around St Andrew's Church Centre? Expect the survey to look closely at heat loss and at the building’s planning status. Windsor Castle lies about 4.3 miles south. Owners of listed homes need consent before a heat pump is fitted, so it’s one of our first questions.
Wexham Street is about 2 miles north-east of Slough, in Slough. Wexham Street gets the same approach as every job we take on: diagnosis first, a fixed price and proper paperwork when we’ve finished. Wexham Street is one of 31 places in Slough where we work. The nearest of our city pages is London, around 21 miles from Wexham Street.
Our nearest recent job to Wexham Street was on Church Street, Staines-upon-Thames (TW18), about 8 miles south: installing two LG wall-mounted units in the main office area and a single unit in the client meeting room.
Larkings Lane, Hartley Close and Tubwell Road and the roads off them are all inside our area. We work across SL2 and SL3 and the streets around it. Other places close to Wexham Street include Stoke Poges (1 mile west), Wexham Court (1 mile south), Fulmer (1 mile north-east), George Green (2 miles south-east) and Iver Heath (2 miles east). Larger places within reach include Cippenham (3 miles south-west), Chalvey (3 miles south-west), Langley (3 miles south) and Upton (3 miles south).
Near you in Wexham Street
We fit and service air conditioning in homes and premises around The Plough Public House and The Stoke Poges School, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Slough station, about 2.3 miles south of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find The Pavilions (4 miles east) and Windsor Castle (4.3 miles south). Not far away are Stoke Common.
A customer’s words
“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