Scotland Regional Winner, Heating Installer Awards 2026Highly Commended, Scottish Energy Efficiency Awards 2025
🎉 Scotland Regional Winner at the Heating Installer Awards 2026
Scotland Regional Winner, Heating Installer Awards 2026Highly Commended, Scottish Energy Efficiency Awards 2025
🎉 Scotland Regional Winner at the Heating Installer Awards 2026
MCS-certified heat pump installation in Currie by a Heat Geek Mastery trained engineer, designed around the village’s Victorian villas, its interwar Lanark Road housing and its later Curriehill estate rather than a one-size-fits-all quote.
Four ageing radiators swapped for high-output units, three more added, and the 250L cylinder tucked into the basement. Result: a constant 21°C throughout the house at over 450% efficiency.
“We were told a property like ours couldn’t run on a heat pump. Aventus Eco proved everyone wrong.”
Penny & Monique, Mount Florida · Google review
Homeowners in Scotland can continue to claim £7,500 to £9,000 for a new heat pump. Our MCS-certified installs, designed by a Heat Geek Mastery trained engineer, qualify for the maximum support.
A young family in Currie gets a different budget answer than a hillside owner in neighbouring Balerno: semis and bungalows mean a smaller, more contained heat loss and a more predictable install.
Currie grew around Kinleith Mill, East Mills and a 1749 snuff mill on the Water of Leith; Currie Kirk was rebuilt in 1784 and ScotRail still serves Curriehill. Three housing waves followed:
• 1921 to 1951: council and private homes along Lanark Road.
• Late 1950s and 60s: private estate east of Curriehill Road.
• Victorian villas, surveyed room by room.
A correctly sized heat pump on a low flow temperature lands close to a well-insulated Currie semi’s condensing-boiler bill. You gain 15 to 20 years’ service against 10 to 15 for gas, plus a Home Energy Scotland grant upfront. That comparison tips further towards the heat pump once solar panels on a Currie semi cover part of its daytime electricity.
Our air source heat pump cost in Scotland 2026 guide compares house types; the maths holds for Edinburgh heat pump installation and its western villages.
A compact house means a smaller unit and fewer radiator changes, and your written quote sets out both before you commit. Victorian villas get the same room-by-room survey, with more rooms to measure.
Your quote names each radiator we change and each one we keep, so you see where the money goes.
Interwar Lanark Road houses get their walls and windows checked on site, so the figures match the house you own.
At handover we set the heating schedule around school and work hours and show everyone the controls.
Your heat loss figure decides between a Vaillant and a Panasonic model, and which size.
Scroll through the year: heat pump efficiency month by month on a Scottish install, dip included.
Every sceptical homeowner asks the same thing: what happens when it is minus three outside?
January costs more than July. The line shows it, because hiding the dip is how installers lose trust.
Even in the trough, one kilowatt in becomes about three kilowatts of heat. A gas boiler never clears one.
Radiators and flow temperature are sized at minus three, so the coldest week is already in the design.
One number sums the year up: every month averaged, measured on real installs, not promised in a brochure.
Surveyed in person
Every connection labelled
Set up, not just fitted
Quiet on sandstone
A 1920s Sandstone End-Terrace Holding 21°C at Over 450% Efficiency
Penny and Monique’s 1920s sandstone end-terrace in Mount Florida was exactly the kind of property people are told cannot run on a heat pump: older, draughty, and lightly insulated.
After a full heat loss survey we fitted a 7kW Vaillant aroTHERM plus running at a 45°C flow temperature, swapped four ageing radiators for high-output units and added three more, and tucked the 250L hot water cylinder into a 1.2m-high basement to save living space.
The result is a constant 21°C throughout the house at over 450% efficiency. A Victorian villa in Currie gets the same room-by-room rigour, and the typical semi or bungalow down the street gets it scaled to a simpler job.
“We were told a property like ours couldn’t run on a heat pump. Aventus Eco proved everyone wrong. The house is warm all the time.” Penny & Monique, Mount Florida ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Google Review
More on this in our Heat Geek trained heat pump installers guide.
Illustration of a typical installation
We measure heat loss room by room, so a Currie semi or bungalow gets an honest, usually compact figure, plus what it means against staying on gas. Inside the Currie Conservation Area around Kirkgate we also check outdoor unit siting against City of Edinburgh Council planning rules.
Currie jobs usually run 5 working days, Monday to Friday. A 1950s or 60s Curriehill semi is one of our most predictable installs. A Victorian villa or Lanark Road terrace can need extra time around solid walls and original pipe runs, and we schedule that at survey stage.
Real-world efficiency comes down mostly to the weather compensation curve, and we set it properly rather than leaving the factory default. After your first winter we check the system against the quote and adjust the curve if your Currie semi, bungalow or villa behaves differently from the design.
The number that matters for a family budget is £7,500: the standard Home Energy Scotland grant toward a heat pump for owner-occupiers meeting the usual criteria, no income test.
• Standard rate in Currie. Inside Edinburgh’s boundary, not a remote or rural postcode, so no £9,000 uplift.
• Non-repayable, and pairable with an interest-free HES loan of up to £7,500 more.
Our heat pump grants in Scotland 2026 guide has the full rules.
Currie’s housing runs smaller and more contained than its neighbours’, so costs sit toward the lower end: £15,000 to £18,000 fully installed is typical, older or larger properties aside.
Take off the £7,500 grant and most Currie homeowners are into it for £7,500 to £10,500. Against an older gas, oil or storage-heating system, running-cost savings typically land between £1,500 and £2,000 a year.
For a cold night near the Pentlands, read our how efficient are air source heat pumps in Scottish winters guide.
Very much so, and generally an easier job than a hillside detached property. Air source heat pump installation works well across Currie’s Victorian villas, its Lanark Road terraces and its 1950s and 60s Curriehill semis, once the system is sized against the specific property. Villas take a more careful survey; semis and bungalows are usually the most predictable jobs we do anywhere nearby.
Usually £15,000 to £18,000 fully installed in Currie before the £7,500 grant, with older or larger villas sitting toward the top of that range and compact semis often toward the bottom. You get an itemised, no-obligation figure once the survey’s done.
Home Energy Scotland’s standard £7,500 grant, available to any Currie owner-occupier whose property meets the usual criteria, no means test involved. There’s also an interest-free HES loan of up to £7,500 more if you’d rather spread the cost, and you apply with the quote we supply.
We do, directly, on every Currie install. Every system gets an annual servicing option plus a WhatsApp line straight to your installer, not a support desk, for as long as you own it. Keeping servicing current protects your manufacturer warranty too.
Yes, and it’s usually the first question families ask us. Boiler replacement in Currie typically keeps the existing radiator layout with targeted upgrades, swaps the hot water cylinder for a heat pump compatible unit, and caps the old gas supply once the system is commissioned, so heating and hot water both move across together.
Either. Most Currie semis and bungalows keep their existing radiators with selective upsizing rather than a full replacement. Where underfloor heating is part of a renovation, we design the system around it directly, since it works well with a heat pump’s lower flow temperatures.
Around 5 working days on a typical Currie home: old boiler out, outdoor unit sited, pipework and cylinder work done, radiators upgraded where needed, and full MCS commissioning. An older villa or a home inside the conservation area can take a little longer.
Yes. Where a full retrofit isn’t practical, often the case on a compact semi’s plot, a hybrid heat pump Currie installation pairs a smaller unit with your existing gas boiler, so the heat pump handles most of the year and the boiler only kicks in on the coldest days. Hybrids currently sit outside HES grant funding.
A few details is all it takes. We reply within one working day, with a real engineer, not a call centre.
We’ll assess your home, explain your options, and leave you to decide.
