Replacing oil heating in Surrey's off-grid villages

If your home runs on oil or LPG, you already know the drill. Prices that jump around every winter, deliveries to schedule, a tank taking up garden space, and a boiler that owes you nothing. There is a better way to heat an older home, and it is quieter, cleaner and cheaper to run when it is designed properly.

Heat pumps work in older homes. The design is what matters.

You may have heard that heat pumps do not work in period properties. Badly designed ones don't. Properly designed ones do. We are Heat Geek Elite certified, which means we design the whole system around your actual home: a room-by-room heat loss survey, radiators and pipework sized correctly, and a system tuned to run at low temperatures where heat pumps are most efficient. That is the difference between a heat pump that merely works and one that costs less to run than the oil it replaced.

Built for homes like yours

We work in the villages around Guildford: Shere, Gomshall, Peaslake, Holmbury St Mary, Albury, Shamley Green, Ewhurst, Cranleigh, Godalming, Haslemere and the surrounding area. Stone cottages, listed buildings, extensions, awkward pipe runs, we specialise in the properties other installers turn down.

What you get with Lotus Energy

A proper room by room heat loss survey, not a finger in the air guess. A system designed first and quoted second. Quality hardware from Viessmann, Vaillant, Glow-worm or Grant. One local engineer responsible for the whole job, from design through to commissioning and aftercare. If your home is heated by oil or LPG and has no mains gas, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme currently pays £9,000 towards an air source heat pump. That rate runs until 31 March 2027. We are MCS registered, which is the requirement for the grant, and we apply on your behalf.

What it costs to find out

Our design-led survey starts from £250 including VAT. You get a clear, honest answer about whether your home suits a heat pump and what it will cost to run, before you commit to anything.

Lotus Gas Ltd, trading as Lotus Energy. Guildford, Surrey. Heat Geek Elite certified. MCS registered. Tel 01483 865122. Last updated 18 September 2026.