In the UK we are about to undergo massive changes in the heating market place which will effectively ban gas boilers in new buildings, and will drive a massive uptake of A2W heat pumps - the government wants to see 600,000 installed over the next 5 years. yeah! (so far only 20,000 have been installed under the RHI scheme over 5 years)

So, to date we have focussed on insatalling Panasonic split systems (we're F-Gas certified) the market however is going to be driven by economic drivers for purchasers, so:

Based on the name brands available in the UK which would you guys back and which would you stay away from and why?

Split or Mono

There are are more than 50 manufacurers of heat pumps certified for installation under the RHI at the moment, the 32 that I actually recognise the names of are:

Bosch Thermotechnology Ltd (Worcester Bosch Group)
Calorex Heat Pumps Limited
Climaveneta S.p.A. (De Longhi)
CTC Division, Enertech Limited
Daikin Europe N.V.
Danfoss Ltd
Earth Save Products Limited
GDC Group Ltd (Dimplex)
Glow-Worm
Grant Engineering Ltd
Heliotherm Wärmepumpentechnik Ges.m.b.H
Hitachi Air Conditioning Products Europe S.A.U.
Husky Heat Pumps
Ideal Heating
IDM energiesysteme GmbH
Keston Boilers
Kingspan Renewables Ltd.
KUFI INT, s.r.o.
Lailey and Coates Ltd
LG Electronics UK
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
NIBE Energy Systems Limited
Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH
Samsung Electronics
Solfex Limited
Stiebel Eltron UK Limited
Thermal Earth Ltd (Mastertherm)
Thermia Heat Pumps
Toshiba Air Conditioning
Vaillant
Viessmann Ltd.
Vokera Ltd.

So given that choice, whose would you install and why and whose would you keep away from and why.

Many Thanks. (if you like just copy the list and right good / bad / ugly beside them )