£9,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) grant for properties heated by oil and LPG

Magnitio

New, improved grant to get rid of oil or LPG heating:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/decisive-action-to-break-influence-of-gas-on-electricity-prices

zxzxzx

I have a Cosy 6 in my garage for installation commencing Monday. Written to Octopus to see what they can do!! Guessing I will miss the extra £1500😭.

tfhnota

No excuse to pay anything towards the installation with a 9k grant but some installers think of the grant as "free" money for them. Clever move by the government but it needs to be balanced out by saying it is a full grant to stop the installers assuming it is just extra dosh for them, though I guess the government will be happy to get half of the £1500 back in income tax, NI etc.

NedS

I would think there is currently plenty of incentive for those with oil boilers to switch to a heat pump, but I welcome the initiative.

Having made the switch from an oil boiler to a heat pump in 2024, looking at my spreadsheet I see that my heating and hot water for March 2026 cost me £43 but would have cost £225 at current heating oil prices for the same amount of delivered heat. Needless to say I'm rather pleased that I'm not still on oil.

greenbee

I’m down to my last few teaspoonfuls of oil, with the boiler removal due next Friday. It’s been a bit chilly eking out the oil during April (particularly with my main PV array, inverter, and battery out of action for the last two weeks), but a combination of using up scrap wood/prunings/solid fuel (I have lots of wood to split but no access to the log store or log splitter!) and electric rads on agile plunge pricing/when there’s been enough solar have got me through. The money saved on the oil refill will make a dent in the installation cost, but the added grant will be welcomed… I’ll be interested to see what the revised quote looks like.

cheesymouse

Is this an immediate change, or do we need to wait for new legislation? Currently on LPG and ASHP is booked in for install in the next few weeks.

zxzxzx

octopus came back to me and said that as my install is Monday, they won't be able to get the grant approved again before the installation. They cab delay the installation to give time to get the grant approved but this would mean postponing your installation back a month or so. There capacity is stretched so I am going ahead, so long lpg Monday!

I did find a quote on line ..

https://www.ecoheat.ltd/blog/bus-grant-9000-oil-lpg-uplift-2026

Van_Girl

I spoke to Octopus on Thursday, and as I had just got a quote with them, they said they would underwrite the £9k regardless of whether they could claim it (as there is no "live" date yet I believe, though estimated at 1st July).

I've had quotes from EonNext, Octopus and Heat Geeks all online, plus one local supplier who came out and did a survey. My oil boiler has been down for 6 weeks weeks anyway, so I have to do something, but now seems a great time to make the move to ASHP.

Interesting what someone said, that the grant should really cover everything - my quotes have come out between £3650 (one rad replaced) and £4750 (all rad and pipes replaced) over the £9k grant

zxzxzx

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81978832#Comment_81978832

Mine was just over £4k 3 rads changed plus the £7.5k. £11.5 total. So would have been £2.5 +£ 9.

QrizB

Interesting what someone said, that the grant should really cover everything

The "someone" who said that has a long track record on this forum of not understanding why things cost what they do. I wouldn't read too much into that statement.

Van_Girl

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81978892#Comment_81978892

Ah, I wasn't aware of that, don't recognise the username!

I do work in an adjacent industry so the costs are not a surprise to me, I'm quite comfortable with the quotes I've had, although getting apples for apples quotes to compare has proved difficult. It's going to work out cheaper than replacing the oil boiler when factoring in all required upgrades to meet current regs, when looking purely at upfront/install costs