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
Air source heat pump installation in Kilsyth by an MCS-certified installer, designed for sandstone on Main Street, the gas-heated streets along the valley, and the oil and LPG houses up toward the Kilsyth Hills.
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- and Heat Geek-certified installs qualify for the maximum support.
“My gas bills are through the roof, and my house still isn’t warm.”
“We live in the old town conservation area. Are we even allowed an outdoor unit?”
“I’m nervous about choosing the wrong installer and wasting money.”
We answer those worries with measurements. A heat pump installation in Kilsyth begins with a heat loss calculation for every room, allowing for how exposed your house sits, and the radiator sizes, flow temperature and unit follow from those figures.
Your quote then sets the design running cost beside your own gas, oil or LPG bills. An old sandstone house on Main Street gets the same measured design we give each heat pump installation in Glasgow.
• The old town. A conservation area since 1971, so wall units go on the rear at ground floor.
• Off-gas edges. Around Banton, Queenzieburn and Croy, more homes heat with oil, LPG or storage heaters.
• Hill exposure. A house up the Tak-ma-doon Road sits colder than one in Market Square, and we size for that.
An outdoor unit can go on a house in a conservation area, and the rules decide where. We mark a rear, ground-floor position at the survey, then design from each room’s heat loss.
Your heat loss calculation allows for how exposed the house sits, so a hillside home gets the output it needs.
We size each radiator to its room so the heat pump can run at a low flow temperature.
We set the heat pump’s expected running cost next to your own current fuel bills.
Off-gas homes in accessible rural areas can get up to £9,000 from Home Energy Scotland, and HES confirms the band.
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
Penny and Monique’s 1920s Sandstone End-Terrace in Mount Florida, Glasgow
Penny and Monique’s 1920s sandstone end-terrace near Hampden Stadium was draughty, with little insulation, and everyone said a heat pump would never work there. Loco Home Retrofit, a Glasgow co-op that plans whole-house retrofits, sent them to us.
The room-by-room calculation called for a 7kW Vaillant aroTHERM plus at a 45°C flow temperature. We swapped four radiators for high-output units, added three more and fixed an earlier installer’s plumbing.
The 250-litre cylinder went into a 1.2-metre basement, and every room now holds 21°C. A Main Street sandstone house faces stricter planning, yet it starts the same way: measure the heat loss, then choose the heat pump.
“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, ★★★★★
Four miles south-east, our Cumbernauld heat pump installations are surveyed the same way.
Illustration of a typical installation
We visit your Kilsyth property, measure every room for a heat loss calculation that allows for exposure, and check your fuel bills; in the conservation area we look at the rear elevation and any listing. Your quote itemises price, likely grant band and running cost.
On a gas property we remove the boiler, fit the cylinder and outdoor unit, upsize any radiators flagged at survey and cap the gas; an oil or LPG boiler comes out the same way. Floors stay covered, and your quote gives the timescale.
We commission to MCS standard, set the weather compensation curve for how exposed your house sits and walk you through the controls and the app. After that, our heat pump servicing across the Glasgow area keeps it running to its design.
An owner-occupier in Kilsyth can get a Home Energy Scotland grant of up to £7,500 for an air source heat pump, with no income test.
Price ranges by house size sit in our air source heat pump cost guide for Scotland.
In most cases, yes. Inside the Kilsyth Conservation Area, a wall unit on the rear elevation at ground floor level is permitted development, and so is a unit on its own base standing behind the front and clear of any road-facing side. Listed buildings need North Lanarkshire Council consent; our guide to heat pump planning permission sets out the siting rules.
Yes, if it is sized for the hill. A property up the Tak-ma-doon Road sits higher and more exposed than central Kilsyth, and the design allows for that. Penny and Monique’s 1920s Mount Florida house runs on a 7kW unit and stays at 21°C in every room, and our Scottish winters efficiency guide shows how units cope below freezing.
For a Kilsyth property on heating oil, a heat pump sized to the house makes one of the strongest cases for switching, because oil costs more per unit of heat than electricity used at heat pump efficiency. The same goes for LPG and storage heaters. We compare your real fuel bills with the design running cost.
Home Energy Scotland’s standard grant for a Kilsyth owner-occupier is up to £7,500, and HES can also lend you up to £7,500 at no interest to spread the balance. Off-gas homes around Kilsyth that fall in the accessible rural band may qualify for £9,000, which Home Energy Scotland confirms by address.
For a standard Kilsyth semi on mains gas, the installed price of £15,000 to £20,000 drops to £7,500 to £12,500 after the £7,500 grant. Larger stone properties and exposed farmhouses around Kilsyth can cost more, and we price yours exactly after the survey.
Send us your address and we will confirm. Any property we survey in the villages around Kilsyth gets the same room-by-room heat loss calculation as one in the town, and we check whether your address falls in Home Energy Scotland’s higher rural band.
For an off-gas Kilsyth home, a full heat pump is our recommendation. Keeping the oil or LPG boiler as back-up keeps the tank, the deliveries and the boiler service, and choosing a hybrid means no Home Energy Scotland grant, worth up to £7,500 here. A full heat pump sized to the house covers the coldest week on its own.
Ask each installer who quotes in Kilsyth to show you the outdoor design temperature they used for your address. For a conservation area property, ask to see the outdoor unit position on a drawing. A quote that arrives without either was sized from a chart. We put both in writing at the survey.
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.
