What the site is for
Someone in Birkenhead, Southport, St Helens, Huyton or Runcorn asking about a heat pump usually wants three things: who runs the grant for lower-income households where they live, what their kind of home means for the work, and whether anyone nearby has done it. Those answers differ by borough, so the site is built borough by borough, across 469,363 households, with every figure sourced. Each page also carries a form for asking for a heat pump quote for your own home.
Why five boroughs
Wirral, Sefton, St Helens, Knowsley and Halton share the Liverpool City Region, a heavy reliance on mains gas and a low take-up of heat pump grants. They differ in who delivers the Warm Homes: Local Grant, in their housing and in their tenure. Liverpool has its own scheme and very different housing, so it appears only as a reference row.
Who runs it
Published by SEO-DONS LTD (company no. 16766013), 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. The company's record is on Companies House. The pages are researched, written and checked by the publisher; there are no named authors. SEO-DONS LTD does not install heat pumps itself, holds no trade accreditation and does not rate or review itself.
How it is checked
The figures come from a single data file built from the census, the off-gas estimates, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme statistics and the national planning dataset, all read on 3 November 2026. The grant routes are taken from the councils' and the combined authority's own pages and the national guidance. Each page lists its sources and the date, and we review a page when a source changes.
Choosing an installer
A few checks protect any household, whichever firm fits the heat pump. Confirm the firm is MCS certified on the MCS register, since the Boiler Upgrade Scheme pays only for certified work. Find out which consumer code it belongs to, such as RECC or HIES, and what that code says about deposits and complaints. If it shows the TrustMark logo, check it on TrustMark's own register. Ask for the heat-loss survey, the sound calculation and the running-cost estimate in writing, and for the length and terms of the warranty on the equipment and the workmanship. Look up the company on Companies House and read independent reviews. For the Warm Homes: Local Grant, the scheme appoints the installer, so these checks are the scheme's job.
Where the site stops
It covers the five boroughs named above. Cheshire's councils, West Lancashire and the Greater Manchester boroughs are outside it, and Liverpool is a comparison only. Keeping to one area keeps the figures consistent with the councils they describe.
Quotes, questions and corrections
The form below takes a quote request, a question about a home or a correction to a figure. Whichever it is, it goes to SEO-DONS LTD and the reply comes by email. Asking commits you to nothing.