solar heating

[GRAHAM_374234069]

Does anybody have solar heating at home. We are after some thoughts. Thanks

 

[GillandMike]

Hi Graham

This has been something we have been looking into in a small way. We had a quote to supply and install solar water heating for the household hot water. The house is modern and the part of the roof that the panals would be sited on is directly above the airing cupboard and existing pipes etc, so not a particularly difficult installation I would have thought. We would need a new differant type of immersion heater and of course all the various differant connections piping and the panals. This would have cost us

 

[Lol1]

I'm interested in this one too. Our boiler is old and at some point will need changing. I don't like the idea of a combi boiler (too many horror stories) but looked into the price non the less. About

 

[GRAHAM_374234069]

It is tricky isn't it. Gas and electric costs are only going to go up. People I have spoken to say that it may take 20 years to cover the costs if costs of gas and electric do not go up too much. However if costs keep on going up, this may perhaps bring it down to 10 years.

Solar will do radiators as well from what I can gather.

Also, the installers can include a solar electric unit to power the pump to send the hot water around.

I have sent for information, but that does not beat speakng to people who have it.

I also gather that in Scotland you can obtain a grant to fund 30% of the cost. Here in England however, you can only claim back

 

[Viking1]

So time last year on the TV I seen a DY show and they put so tanks under ground which used the hart form the ground to make hart for the home and it was friendly to the eve met and it cut down the cost of your heat bills.

Mark

 

[GRAHAM_374234069]

So time last year on the TV I seen a DY show and they put so tanks under ground which used the hart form the ground to make hart for the home and it was friendly to the eve met and it cut down the cost of your heat bills.

Mark

I did look into this. It is very difficult to do on a housethat is not a newbuild

 

[cris_408518]

I did look into this. It is very difficult to do on a housethat is not a newbuild

I think Mark is talking about Geothermal heating systems that take the ground heat and convert it to heat your home. The systems are pricy and need a lot of land to be excavated to bury the pipe under from what I've seen.

We had Solar water heating at our old house, we had it fitted free and it did save a lot on water bills but would not have been worth it to buy it.

Solar panels I'm told are not a very green product in them selves and will take very many years to see a return even if you are selling back poewer to the Grid.

 

[Viking1]

I think Mark is talking about Geothermal heating systems that take the ground heat and convert it to heat your home. The systems are pricy and need a lot of land to be excavated to bury the pipe under from what I've seen.

We had Solar water heating at our old house, we had it fitted free and it did save a lot on water bills but would not have been worth it to buy it.

Solar panels I'm told are not a very green product in them selves and will take very many years to see a return even if you are selling back poewer to the Grid.

sorry i do not now what iy was called just can recal see it on TV

 

[smiley]

We were thinging of panels as we face south and get a lot of sun. But I think you need quite a lot to make sure you don't have to pay the supplier one panel will provide electric for your tv.

I think we would need a dozen at that rate, the roofs not big enough.

Theres a lot of confusing info on how good they are. But we found that you can get 30% towards the cost from the council, but at the price these panels are it's still to expensive on the initial outlay.