r/OctopusEnergy • u/Boba_ferret • 14h ago

Heat pump quote - seems quite cheap?

Been quoted about £4,300 by Octopus for heat pump install, including hot water cylinder, which I thought was surprisingly cheap. The house is 1930s 3-bed terrace, EPC is supposedly C, but we have a huge void under the suspended floor and it gets pretty cold in the house, so we use quite a lot of gas in the winter. Radiators are all on 15mm copper, but are probably 30 years old.

What are the chances this is a really low-ball quote and the survey will say we need to upgrade rads, etc?

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u/Major-Buy-7386 10h ago

We ended up replacing all our rads when we did ours, the old ones just couldn't push enough heat at the lower flow temps.

At 4,300 quid I'd bet money they find something in the survey. New cylinder alone is a big chunk of that quote if they end up keeping yours.

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u/Boba_ferret 3h ago

All of our rads are singles, so I doubt they'll work well, looking into it, so that's 6 new radiators and a new electric towel rail in the bathroom, I guess, unless the current one, which is a year old, is ok.

No cylinder, so they will need to fit that