Ideal Heating: Meeting Sustainable Heating Needs

by Chelsea Bailey

According to the government’s Heat and Building strategy, 17% of the UK’s carbon emissions are attributed to domestic heating. Therefore, it is crucial that the housing sector finds more sustainable solutions. How is Ideal Heating meeting the UK’s sustainable housing needs through its air source heat pumps?

Ideal Heating is at the forefront of the domestic and commercial heating markets, leading the industry in setting new standards and challenging technological boundaries.

The Logic Air heat pump range is its new range of monobloc heat pumps. It has been designed to deliver efficient, simple, and reliable low-carbon heating in homes throughout the UK.

The Logic Air heat pump has been designed to be quiet while running

Housing Industry Leaders spoke to Lizzie Wilkinson, Product Director –Domestic at Ideal Heating about the Logic Air heat pump.

Lizzie began by explaining that when Ideal Heating designed the heat pump, one of the main focuses was on efficiency.

She revealed: “When we talk about ensuring high efficiency, we talk about the coefficient of performance. This is the amount of energy you put in, combined with the amount of free energy that the heat pump extracts from the air, and how much heat energy that produces.”

To meet sustainable heating needs by using heat pumps, it is essential that people choose to have them installed.

Key Features

In addition to it being highly efficient with a SCOP up to 5.19*, other key features of the heat pump include:

• Quiet operation

• Compatible with radiator and underfloor heating systems

• Smart weather compensating controls

• Low-carbon refrigerant

• Smart grid and solar PV compatible

• Easily installed and serviced

• Hot, efficient, and fast re-heat times with the Ideal heat pump cylinder range

*Performance data for Logic Air 10kW in accordance with EN 14825:2016 (A7/W35).

Lizzie highlighted that when designing the Logic Air heat pump, it being quiet was a must: “The British public aren’t used to having a box on the outside of the house, so we need to make sure the heat pumps are really quiet when they run, and we did this with Logic Air.”

Showing how quiet the Logic Air heat pump is, Ideal Heating has recently been awarded the Quiet Mark certification, a global rating that rewards the quietest central heating products.

A variety of technologies must be explored to decarbonise heat

Air source heat pumps are an attractive technology for people who are looking for a highly efficient and low-carbon heating system.

From our perspective we know that the decarbonisation of domestic heating and hot water is important in the transition towards net zero.

Lizzie Wilkinson

Product Director –

Ideal Heating

Domestic

However, Lizzie expressed that air source heat pumps are just one part of the net zero puzzle: “There has to be a shift to different types of technologies to reach net zero. It might be hydrogen for heating, it might be heat pumps, it might be electric. We need a real mix of technology.”

To make sure Ideal Heating is focusing on a variety of technologies, it is diversifying its product portfolio so that it can support its customers in the transition to decarbonisation.

Putting its customers first is key for Ideal Heating, Lizzie explained that it is aiming to provide full support to those who need it.

She said: “Right from pre-sales, we offer support to the customer in terms of specification. For the new build, we have a full design team who do new build designs and they’ll do that with any heating system. We also have a dedicated customer service team specifically trained on air source heat pumps.”

Training is a huge investment for Ideal Heating

Investing in training is something that Ideal Heating is making a priority.

It offers training at 19 locations throughout the UK. Its full-time expert training managers are offering a wide range of comprehensive courses, which can be customised to individual installation and service companies.

Lizzie explained that as well as these training opportunities, it has taken advantage of the recent UK Government funding announcement: “We’re accredited to offer government-funded training and we also back that up with subsidising costs as well.”

Continuing, she said that going forward, training will continue to be prioritised: “Our training schemes are constantly expanding. We see training as important and we’re putting installers through heat pump training weekly.”

Technologies like Ideal Heating’s Logic Air heat pump are crucial in seeing the housing sector meet its net zero targets.