How Much Do Heat Pumps Cost In The High Peak, Greater Manchester, Sheffield And Leeds?

The Four Things That Set The Install Price

Two houses on the same street can get quotes thousands of pounds apart, and the gap sits in four places.

We price the unit, the radiators and the outdoor work from your survey, and the quote that follows is fixed, so you can lay it beside any other quote line by line. Our heat pump installation page sets out the process from survey to handover.

Hill Towns, Off-Gas Villages And City Terraces

The same four lines come out at different figures across the area we cover. Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith sit high on the hills, where winter nights run colder than in central Manchester, and your heat loss figure has to hold on those nights. A gritstone house up there can need a bigger unit, or bigger radiators, than the same floor plan in Stockport.

Homes off the gas grid, in Edale, Peak Forest and parts of the Hope Valley, weigh the heat pump against oil or LPG. Those homes can qualify for the higher grant rate in the next section, and a heat pump ends the tank deliveries.

In Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds the house is more often a terrace with a small yard or none, so the outdoor unit may have to go at the front or the side, where the sound calculation and the planning rules decide the spot; our heat pump noise and planning guide covers both. In a tight terrace the pipe run, the electrical supply and room for a hot water cylinder can move the price more than the unit does.

Lewis surveys heat pump jobs himself from our base in New Mills as far as Sheffield and Leeds, and he works the same way in a Hayfield cottage as in a Headingley semi: he measures every room and checks every radiator before he prices the job.

The Grant, And What It Takes Off

Under the scheme’s rules the grant comes off the price up front: an MCS-certified installer applies for it on your behalf and deducts it from the quote and the final invoice, and every grant-funded installation has to be carried out by an MCS-certified installer (Ofgem, Boiler Upgrade Scheme: Guidance for Property Owners, version 5.1). You need to own the property, and the heat pump has to replace fossil fuel heating such as oil, gas, LPG or electric heaters (GOV.UK, Boiler Upgrade Scheme eligibility, checked 10 October 2026).

So ask anyone quoting you, us included, for their MCS certificate before you count the grant into your budget. Our quote shows the full price of the job before any grant, so you can see the sum both ways.

Running Costs, Worked Out On Paper

The Unit Prices

Ofgem’s price cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026 sets electricity at 26.32p per kWh and gas at 7.97p per kWh, with daily standing charges of 54.83p and 29.68p. Those are Great Britain averages for direct debit customers (Ofgem, checked 9 October 2026), and your quote uses the rates in force the day we write it.

Electricity carries no VAT from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, while gas carries 5%. If VAT returns to electricity in April 2027 at the October to December 2026 cap, the break-even below would rise to about 3.5.

SCOP, And The 3.3 Break-Even

SCOP, the seasonal coefficient of performance, is the heat you get out for each unit of electricity you put in, averaged across a heating season: a SCOP of 3.5 gives 3.5 kWh of heat for every 1 kWh of electricity.

A Worked Example

Ofgem’s typical medium household uses 9,500 kWh of gas a year (Ofgem, Review of typical domestic consumption values: decision, 27 May 2026). Treat that as the heat the house needs and run it through the October to December 2026 cap:

The table covers unit costs only. If the gas meter comes out altogether, the 29.68p daily gas standing charge goes with it: £108.33 over a year at the October to December 2026 rate.

A solid-walled terrace in New Mills and a cavity-walled semi in Marple can need very different amounts of heat, so the survey swaps Ofgem’s figure for your own heat loss and bills. The running cost written into your quote is then your house’s figure, not a national average.

Flow Temperature Moves The SCOP

Flow temperature is how hot the water leaving the heat pump has to be to keep the coldest room warm. The cooler that water runs, the less work the compressor does and the higher the SCOP climbs. Larger radiators let the water run cooler, so the radiator line on your quote and the running cost belong together. At commissioning we set the flow temperatures and prove them against the design, and a yearly heat pump service checks the weather-compensation curve still matches it.

Servicing And Care Plans After The Install

The bill after the install is more than units of electricity. A heat pump needs a yearly service, and ours costs £192 to £420 including VAT depending on the system. It takes two to three hours: the engineer cleans the coils and filters, checks and doses the system water, balances the system and sets the weather-compensation curve back to the temperatures in your design.

That last step protects the SCOP you paid for. A clogged coil or a curve that has drifted makes the unit work harder for the same heat, and the running cost creeps back towards the 3.3 line.

To spread the cost, our Heat Pump Care Plans start at £35 a month including VAT, with the annual service and priority booking on each tier. Heat Pump Care adds up to £500 a year towards repairs, and Heat Pump Protect up to £1,000. We service all makes, so a system another installer fitted can join a plan too.

What Goes Into A Fixed Quote From Us

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on those four cost lines and we haven’t measured your house yet. After the survey you get a written design and a fixed quote, and the number in the quote is the number on the invoice. It carries:

If the numbers don’t work for your house, we tell you before you spend a penny.