We Spent £4,000 Heating a Bungalow… So We Got a Heat Pump

Our three-bed bungalow has no mains gas, and heating it with electric radiators used 16,376 kWh (roughly £4,000) since we moved in. So we've had a Vaillant aroTHERM plus air-to-water heat pump installed by Heatable. Here's why we chose it, what it cost, how the five-day installation went, and what my wife really thinks of the pipes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 In this video Why electric radiators cost us so much, and why we didn't get mains gas How a heat pump works (you already have one in your kitchen!) and why around 400% efficiency matters Heat pump vs gas central heating, and air-to-air vs air-to-water The cost: £11,386 after the £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant The heat loss survey and how the system was sized Day-by-day installation: new radiators, pipe work, a 210 litre hot water cylinder and the new 2026 5 kW Vaillant aroTHERM plus A tour of the cylinder with installer Rob The Vaillant app, including an early efficiency figure of 3.93 How the installers did, and my wife's honest verdict ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Links mentioned in this video 👉 Get a heat pump quote from Heatable – Save £150 https://misterev.co.uk/heatpump Use code: MISTEREV150 👉 Vaillant aroTHERM plus https://www.vaillant.co.uk/product-sy... 👉 Our Heatable solar panel and battery installation    • We have the power! Our solar and battery s...   👉 Tim and Kat's air conditioning (air-to-air heat pump) tour    • Best of Both Worlds? Heating and Cooling w...   👉 Richard's air-to-water heat pump tour    • Should We Get a Heat Pump? Everything You ...   👉 Our old air-to-air heat pump (air conditioning)    • Our Air Con vs the UK Heatwave: Panasonic ...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ 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 ► Touring Richard's Vaillant aroTHERM plus heat pump    • Should We Get a Heat Pump? Everything You ...   ► My solar and battery system: any regrets?    • I Wish I’d Known This Before Installing Solar   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 Chapters 00:00 Electric radiators cost a lot 01:13 Why not mains gas? 02:40 You already have a heat pump in your house 03:59 Heat pump vs gas central heating 05:21 Why air-to-water instead of air-to-air? 08:10 Heat pump cost and the £7,500 grant 10:12 Heat loss survey 11:19 Installation 11:45 Tour before the work 13:12 Day 1: radiators and pipe work 20:19 Day 2: attic, cylinder and heat pump base 22:51 A tour of the hot water cylinder 26:03 Day 3: lagging, tiling and boxing in 26:21 Day 4: electrics 27:33 Day 5: commissioning 28:15 The Vaillant app 32:27 How were the installers? 33:27 My wife's thoughts 41:38 Final thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Heatable gave me a discount on this installation in return for making videos about it. The £11,386 shown is the full price you'd pay, before my discount. 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 #vaillant #arotherm #homeenergy #boilerupgradescheme