UK households who have a boiler being handed free £7,500 'per property'

UK households could save thousands of pounds with a home improvement scheme. Earlier this year, the former Conservative Party government moved to update the eligibility criteria for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme which means more can now apply. You can get a grant worth up to £7,500 to replace an old fossil fuel heating system with a heat pump or biomass boiler.

You can get £7,500 towards the cost of installing an air source heat pump and £5,000 towards a biomass boiler. Those installing a ground source heat pump, including water source heat pumps, can get £7,500 grants. The government explains: "You can get one grant per property.

" You cannot get a grant for a hybrid heat pump system (for example a combination of gas boiler and air source heat pump). READ MORE UK faces -7C snow with 'all' of country at risk and 'nowhere spared' The system you install must meet certain standards, such as minimum efficiency levels (your installer can advise you on these). The maximum capacity is 45kWth for individual systems and 300kWth for shared ground loops, the government stipulates.

Daniel Särefjord, chief executive officer of Aira UK, which manufactures heat pumps, said: "Heat pumps will free families to spend more of their income on non-heating related expenses, reduce the country’s gas use – which is responsible for a third of the UK’s emissions – and help to insulate the country from future international gas price shocks, such as the skyrocketing costs that we experienced following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. "For households that previously required loft or cavity wall insulation to secure the BUS grant, this policy change will make the installation of a heat pump £2,500 cheaper on average, allowing people to choose when to upgrade their home insulation and making heat pump ownership even more budget friendly." You cannot get a grant to replace a low carbon heating system, the government adds.

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