Should We Get a Heat Pump? Everything You Need To Know About Air-to-Water Heat Pumps

Is a heat pump actually worth it? I visited Richard Watts (‪@UpsideDownFork‬) to see his real air-to-water heat pump installation, what it cost, how much he's actually saving on his energy bills, and get tips and tricks for a heat pump installation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 In this video Touring Richard's full air-to-water heat pump installation Why bigger radiators matter for heat pump efficiency How much it really costs to run — just £33 for the whole of 2025 Why he chose a Vaillant heat pump, fitted by British Gas The heat loss survey process and getting quotes Total system cost (heat pump, solar and battery) and expected payback Air-to-air vs air-to-water: which is right for your home? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Links mentioned in this video 👉 Richard's channel, Upside Down Fork -    / @upsidedownfork   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ Support the Channel If you enjoy my videos and would like to support the channel, here are a few ways you can help. ⭐️ Become a channel member and get access to exclusive perks:    / @mrev   ☕️ Buy me a coffee (or my wife a gin & tonic!): https://ko-fi.com/misterev ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💷 Save Money with My Referral Links Using these links helps support the channel at no extra cost to you. Thank you! ☀️ Heatable Solar, Heat Pumps, Air Conditioning – Save £150 https://misterev.co.uk/solar https://misterev.co.uk/heatpump https://misterev.co.uk/aircon Use code: MISTEREV150 🔋 Heatable Battery Storage – Save £75 https://misterev.co.uk/battery Use code: MISTEREV75 ⚡️ Heatable EV charge point – Save £50 https://misterev.co.uk/charger Use code: MISTEREV50 🐙 Octopus Energy – Get £50 credit https://misterev.co.uk/octopus ⚡️ Octopus Electroverse – Get £5 credit https://misterev.co.uk/electroverse ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 Watch Next ► Air-to-air heat pump tour -    • Best of Both Worlds? Heating and Cooling w...   ► Our previous house with air conditioning -    • Our Air Con vs the UK Heatwave: Panasonic ...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 Chapters 00:00 I want the electric radiators gone! 00:25 Meet Richard 01:45 The grand tour 03:01 The best way to run a heat pump? 04:35 On with the tour 06:58 Conservatory 10:49 Do you need a radiator in every room? 11:20 The garage 14:26 Richard's solar and battery setup 15:34 Upstairs 19:37 No towel rail in the bathroom 21:39 Water cylinder 26:53 Does Richard's wife like it? 27:46 How quiet is the outside unit? 31:12 Average energy use 31:37 Who installed it? 35:36 Why Vaillant? 37:30 Heat loss survey 38:19 Would Richard still get a heat pump from British Gas? 40:56 Are heat pump installations getting more expensive? 41:51 Energy costs before and after 44:03 Is Richard happy with the heat pump? 44:36 Overall cost of the system 47:05 Should we get air-to-air or air-to-water? 50:31 Thanks to Richard ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 Follow Mr EV Website https://misterev.co.uk YouTube    / @mrev   Instagram   / tillathenun   Facebook   / mrevchannel   Threads https://threads.com/tillathenun Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/tillathenun.... TikTok   / misterev   X https://x.com/tillathenun ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Business Enquiries For sponsorship and business enquiries, please use the contact details on the About page of the channel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Some of the links above may be affiliate links. If you use them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting the channel. #heatpump #homeenergy #electricvehicles