Heat pump misery

SIR – Jim Sokol (Letters, April 24) suggests the reason the British public won’t buy heat pumps is that they are “useless in the British climate”.

Having been brainwashed into installing one four years ago, I can concur.

I am frequently asked about the benefits. There are none. A long soak in a hot bath after a day facing the elements is simply no longer possible. Four inches of tepid water is the best you can hope for without recourse to boiling pans and kettles of water. When it cannot cope with the demand for hot water (a regular occurrence), it simply stalls and idles away, consuming electricity for no output.

Our neighbours, unable to face their advancing years with a heating system that is unfit for purpose and gobbles electricity, cut their losses, had their heat pump removed and invested in an