What we learned from getting a heat pump

After several years of planning towards it, we had a heat pump installed in the house last week. It’s the last step in getting our house to zero carbon – or effectively so. It’s impossible to eliminate fossil fuels in the supply chain, but as a household we’re no longer burning any directly.

As I’ve been doing with each of the low carbon interventions we’ve made to the house, I thought I’d write up what we’ve learned in the process. There is a lot of interest in heat pumps at the moment,...