PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check whether your home is suitable for a heat pump.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsA qualified heat-pump installer can assess the property, but no price for that service is supplied in the available sources.

If this goes wrong: you accept a poorly sized system, face disappointing comfort or running costs, and need professional work to correct the decision.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your latest energy bills and gather the current heating fuel, annual energy use if available, boiler or heater details, and hot-water arrangements.
    2. Measure each heated room, note the property type and approximate age, and record the loft, wall and floor insulation, windows, draughts, radiators and any underfloor heating.
    3. Take clear photographs of the boiler or current heater, radiators, hot-water cylinder, consumer unit, loft insulation, outside walls and possible outdoor-unit locations, removing personal documents from view.
    4. Paste the supplied prompt into a chatbot and replace each bracketed slot with your measurements, observations and photographs or plans.
    5. Ask the chatbot to separate known facts, assumptions and missing information, then remove or correct any statement that conflicts with your bills, measurements or photographs.
    6. Send the resulting checklist and questions to a qualified heat-pump installer and request an on-site survey, room-by-room heat-loss calculation and written system design before comparing proposals.

    Prompt

    Help me make a preliminary checklist for whether my UK home may suit an air-source heat pump. Do not give a definitive yes or no, calculate a system size, promise savings, or present assumptions as facts. Separate what I have told you from what you are assuming and list every missing detail that could change the conclusion. Consider these points: property type and age [details], location in the UK [location], floor area and room-by-room dimensions [details], current heating system and fuel [details], annual energy use if known [details], insulation in the loft, walls and floors [details], windows and draughts [details], radiators or underfloor heating [details], hot-water cylinder and available space [details], outside space and likely outdoor-unit position [details], electrical supply and consumer unit information [details], noise or planning constraints [details], and photographs or plans I can provide [details]. Produce: 1) a plain-language preliminary assessment, 2) the information that still needs checking, 3) practical preparation tasks, 4) questions to ask a qualified heat-pump installer, and 5) warning signs that mean I should not rely on this chat. Tell me which parts require an on-site survey and a professional heat-loss calculation.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

What caps this at PARTLY: physical presence, verification cost and stakes of error.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta1
Total6 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT tell me if my house is suitable for a heat pump?
It can produce a useful preliminary checklist from your property details, but it cannot confirm suitability. A qualified installer needs to inspect the property and complete the relevant heat-loss and system-design work.
What information does AI need to check my home for a heat pump?
Give it room dimensions, property type and age, insulation, windows, current heating, radiators or underfloor heating, hot-water arrangements, energy use and possible outdoor-unit locations. Treat photographs and plans as supporting evidence, not as a substitute for an on-site survey.
Can AI calculate what size heat pump I need?
AI can explain which information affects sizing and organise figures you provide, but its result should not be used as the final design. Ask an installer for a room-by-room heat-loss calculation and a written system specification.
Should I get a heat-pump survey before replacing my boiler?
Yes, if you are considering installation, get a qualified installer to survey the property before committing to equipment or building work. Use AI to prepare your questions and check that the proposal addresses insulation, emitters, hot water, controls, electrical requirements and the outdoor unit.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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