Also, pushing people towards heat pumps now, with the temptation of a few more thousand quid to lend a helping hand, overlooks some pretty major obstacles.
For a start, everyone in the British heat pump industry knows that there are nowhere near enough trained technicians ready and able to put in the kit - so finding a heat pump expert requires diligence, patience and determination. Also, another one of Mr Sunak’s get-out-of-jail cards, removing his last-but-one predecessor’s insistence that homeowners and landlords would be forced to meet certain insulation targets for their properties or face punitive sanctions, runs entirely counter to the great heat pump jamboree.
If you can find a heat pump engineer to talk to in the first place, they will likely tell you that one of the first rules for a successful heat pump experience is that the property it will occupy should be super well-insulated.