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Air Source Heat Pumps • West Yorkshire

Find out whether a heat pump is worth exploring for your home

A quick first step to understand whether a heat pump is worth exploring for your property. Four short stages, a few minutes, no photographs needed at this stage and nothing to measure. You get an honest first view of where your property stands and what a sensible next step would be.

Your answers are worked out in your own browser. Nothing is sent to Airwarm unless you choose to send it using the form at the end.

Installations begin in April 2027. Desktop Reviews, surveys and design are happening now, so you can plan ahead for the launch.

Stage 1 of 4

Your property

Stage 1 of 4: your property
Just the first part, for example BD18 or LS6. We only use this to check whether you are in the area we cover.
An approximate answer is fine. “Not sure” is a perfectly good answer too.
Grant schemes can have their own EPC requirements, and those change. We ask so we know what to check, not to decide anything here.

Current condition

Best guesses are fine. We are looking for a general picture, not a survey.

Stage 2 of 4: current condition
How well insulated do you think the home is?
Do you have any paperwork showing insulation work that has been done? For example a cavity wall fill certificate, a loft insulation receipt, or an EPC improvement record.
Look at the pipes coming out of the wall or floor into one of your radiators. Which do they look most like? Any radiator will do. If you cannot see the pipes, “not sure” is a perfectly good answer. Two photographs of a radiator valve side by side. On the left, thin or microbore pipework, a narrow copper pipe usually around 8 to 10mm across, about the thickness of a pencil. On the right, standard radiator pipework, a noticeably thicker copper pipe usually around 15mm across.
Is there space outside for the heat pump unit? It needs roughly the footprint of a large washing machine, against an outside wall, with clear air around it.
A heat pump normally heats hot water into a store. A cylinder is the usual arrangement; where one will not fit, compact thermal storage may be considered as part of the design.
Which of these looks most like the electrical panel in your home? Three photographs of electrical panels side by side. A, an old fuse box: a rusty metal box with black rewireable fuse carriers. B, a modern consumer unit with MCBs and RCDs: a white plastic box with a row of black rocker switches and a red main switch. C, a modern consumer unit with RCBOs: a white plastic box with a row of blue switches, each with its own small test button.

If your home has an older-style fuse box, it may need upgrading — or in some cases a separate additional consumer unit fitted alongside it — as part of your heat pump installation. This is confirmed at survey and, where needed, included in your fixed price quotation.

Is the property listed, in a conservation area, or leasehold? None of these rules a heat pump out. They change what is permitted, so it helps to know early.

Your plans

Stage 3 of 4: your plans
Would you consider changing some radiators if the design needed it? A heat pump runs at a lower temperature than a boiler, so some rooms often need a larger radiator. There is no wrong answer here — it just changes the advice.

Your result

What this is, and what it is not

This is an indicative first step, not a technical heat-loss survey. It does not produce a design, a specification or a price, and it is not a final answer — a person at Airwarm makes that judgement.

Your answers stay on your device until you send them

All four stages run entirely in your browser, and so does the result. Nothing you enter reaches Airwarm while you are working through it, nothing is saved to your device, and there are no cookies and no analytics on this website.

At the end you can fill in a short form to send us your answers and your contact details, so we can look at your property properly and come back to you. That is the only point at which anything is sent, it is entirely optional, and you can read your result and close the page instead. What happens to the details if you do send them is set out in our privacy policy.

No photographs needed at this stage

We do not ask for pictures at this stage. Nothing to measure, nothing to look up.

Nothing to prepare

Best guesses are genuinely fine, and “not sure” is a real answer rather than a failure. Where an answer is uncertain, the result says so.

About five minutes

Twenty-one short questions across three stages, then your result in stage four. You can go back and change any answer before you finish.

What the three results mean

There is no pass and no fail. Each result is a first view based on your answers, not a final engineering judgement, and the blue and amber results explain why they came out that way using the answers you actually gave.

The three assessment results: likely suitable, in green; needs a closer look, in blue, where some answers need checking; and potentially unsuitable, in amber, where significant issues were found. Blue and amber results explain why, using your own answers.
Each result carries a label and an explanation as well as a colour. The colour is a supporting indicator, never the whole message.

Likely suitable

Several positive indicators suggest a heat pump is worth exploring for your home.

Next: Submit your assessment and we review the property alongside your answers before advising whether a survey is worthwhile.

Needs a closer look

Nothing rules a heat pump out, but one or more answers needs checking. Choosing “Not sure” counts as uncertainty, not a problem.

Next: Submit the assessment and we investigate those points in your Desktop Engineering Review.

Potentially unsuitable

One or more answers suggests a significant issue that could make an installation difficult or unsuitable. The assessment is an initial check, not a survey.

Next: We explain which answers triggered the result so you understand why we would not recommend progressing at this stage.

“Not sure” is a useful answer

Plenty of people do not know how their walls are built or whether the loft was topped up. The assessment is designed to cope with that: uncertainty moves the result towards “needs a closer look” rather than counting as a problem with your home.

What this cannot tell you

It cannot size a heat pump, tell you which radiators need changing, confirm where hot water would be stored, assess noise at a neighbour’s window or produce a price. All of that needs a survey, and the survey needs measurements rather than recollections.

Questions about the assessment

Will a heat pump work in my house?

Most homes can be heated well by a heat pump, though not every home today and not every home without changes. What actually decides it.

What if the assessment says my home is potentially unsuitable?

You will be shown which of your answers led to that result. It means those answers point to significant issues, not that a heat pump could never work: the online assessment is not a final engineering judgement. Based on the information given, though, we would not recommend going on to the next stage.

What happens to my answers?

Your answers and your result stay in your browser. Nothing is saved and nothing reaches Airwarm while you work through the assessment, and closing the tab discards it.

After your result you can choose to send it to us using the optional form, which sends your assessment and contact details to Airwarm. That is the only point at which anything is sent. AIRWARM LTD is a registered company, and our privacy policy explains how we handle what you send.

Is this the same as a survey?

No, and it is important that it is not mistaken for one. A survey measures every room, records the construction, measures the existing emitters and assesses siting, noise and the electrical supply. This is a triage tool that tells you whether that visit is likely to be worthwhile. Here is what a survey actually involves.

I do not know the answer to some of the questions.

Answer “not sure”. It is offered on every question where uncertainty is normal, and the result accounts for it by telling you what needs checking rather than by assuming the worst.

I am outside Bradford, Leeds or Shipley.

You are welcome to run the assessment anyway — it will still tell you something useful about your property. Whether Airwarm can help you yet is a separate question, and the honest answer depends on where you are. Ask us and you will get a straight answer either way.

Start with your home, not a product

The Home Energy Assessment takes a few minutes, asks for no photographs at this stage and gives you an honest first view of whether an air source heat pump is worth exploring for your property.

Start your Home Energy Assessment