Home by Numbers

Heating

Heating — understand the numbers before you change

Start wherever makes sense for you. Understand heat pumps, compare running costs, use your home figures, or see how tariffs could change the result.

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Understand heat pumps

A plain-English guide to the five questions that matter before you replace your heating.

Read the Heat Pump Guide

Run the numbers

Compare your current heating with a heat pump, new gas boiler or direct electric heating using the same amount of useful heat.

Open the Heating Calculator

Start with your home

Use your electricity and gas figures as the baseline for the wider heating comparison.

Open My Energy

Check the tariff effect

A heat pump can materially change electricity demand, so see how different rates and cheap periods could affect the wider home.

Explore tariffs

Are Heat Pumps Worth It in the UK? — Compare your current heating, realistic running costs and the extra installation cost before you switch.

  1. Understand
  2. Calculate
  3. Check the home
  4. Test the tariff

Home by Numbers keeps the explanation and the calculation connected, so you can test a heating change against the home you actually live in.