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Also worth adding that in the UK new homes will not allowed to be built with boilers by 2025 and they will need to be slowly phased out in next decades so definitely invest in home insulation and a heat pump if your boiler is on the way out!
Yes - good point.
That touches on another myth I've heard frequently - that heat pumps are only suitable on well insulated homes. I think this may be true in relation to some air-to-water systems (?), but it ignores the possibility of just installing a cheap air-to-air system on top of existing heating (either gas or air-to-water).
Air to air systems are really well suited to homes with a combined kitchen/living room which is the main room in use most of the day. We only heat the kitchen/living room during the day (our main living space), and the heat pump is more than adequate for this. It typically uses around 10kwh a day for quite a big, not very well insulated room.