Paul Spence: What’s Wrong With Heat Pump Installations?

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What does a qualification actually tell you about the person installing your heat pump? Paul Spence has been in heating since 1980, and his answer is blunt: not much.Paul started as an apprentice at Leeds Building College, spent five years as a marine engineer in the Royal Navy working on screw compressor chillers and ships' cooling systems, then went self-employed through the combi boiler boom of the 1990s. He now runs the Heat Pumps UK Facebook group, with 33,000 members, and has spent years rectifying heat pump systems that were signed off as compliant and still didn't work.In this episode we talk about what an apprenticeship used to involve versus a three-day course, why City & Guilds…