New Form Plumbing Ltd installs air source heat pumps across Maidstone and the villages around the county town. We are MCS certified, so we design the system, install it, commission it, certify it and handle the £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant on your behalf.

Maidstone covers a lot of ground, and the further out you go the more houses are off the gas grid. Villages towards the Weald and along the North Downs still run on oil and LPG, and those are the properties where a heat pump makes the most obvious financial sense.

Why Maidstone homes suit a heat pump

Off grid heating is the strongest case for a heat pump anywhere, and there is a lot of it around Maidstone. If you are buying oil by the tankful or LPG by the bulk delivery, you are paying some of the highest heating costs in the country. A properly designed heat pump replaces that with electricity you already buy, at three to four units of heat per unit of power. We are OFTEC registered as well, so we can remove the old oil boiler and tank as part of the same job.

What we cover near Maidstone

We cover Maidstone and the surrounding villages including Bearsted, Detling, Boxley, Aylesford, Ditton, Larkfield, Coxheath, Loose, Staplehurst, Headcorn, Harrietsham, Lenham and Hollingbourne, and out towards Sittingbourne and Ashford. We are based in Dartford, up the M20.

Common questions from Maidstone homeowners

We are off the gas grid on oil. What will we actually save?

This is the strongest case there is, but the honest answer depends on your house. Oil and LPG are expensive per unit of heat and you pay for delivery and storage on top. We model your real heat loss and your current consumption and show you the figures for your property rather than a national average, so you can decide on facts.

Can you remove the oil tank and boiler?

Yes. We are OFTEC registered as well as MCS certified, so decommissioning the boiler, draining and removing the tank and making good is part of the work rather than another trade to find.

Our farmhouse is old and hard to heat. Is it a lost cause?

Not necessarily, but it needs honesty. Older rural properties often have high heat loss. That no longer affects eligibility, as the EPC insulation condition has been removed, but it does affect running costs, so sometimes the right order is insulation first, heat pump second. We will tell you if that is the case rather than selling you a system that will disappoint you.

Do you cover the villages or only the town?

The villages are a large part of our work here, because that is where the off grid properties are. We travel out to the Weald, the Downs villages and along the M20 corridor regularly.

Will a heat pump cope with a large rural house?

Yes, if it is sized for the house rather than for the old boiler. Large properties often need a bigger unit, a larger cylinder and sometimes two zones. That is a design question, and it is exactly what the survey is for.

Book a free survey in Maidstone

We survey the property free of charge, calculate the heat loss room by room and give you a written fixed price with the £7,500 grant already deducted. Call us or request a quote.

Read more about our air source heat pump installation service, or see the hot water cylinders and underfloor heating that often go with it.