Heat Pumps? - Get Real, Boris!

 ROGER BISBY: Even I have been unprepared by the scale of opposition to the heat pumps that the Government is so keen to make us all fit in our homes, having ripped out our gas boilers first. On the building advice website that I now run, I have been deluged by unhappy customers who were persuaded to install heat pumps (which are either ground source or air source, depending on design) but who bitterly regretted their decision. One told me that he bought a new-build house which had an air source heat pump installed. The customer's bills were similar to those from the gas boilers they had before: But now they pay an extra £450 a year for service and maintenance if something goes wrong - as it frequently does. Mail.