Hey everyone
This is my first ever post on this web site.
BIT OF BACKGROUND!!!!
I was very interested in solar water heating and really fancied having some fitted to my house...Looked around a little and selected a company to install after a bit of hard sell from them......You know if you pay us a deposit now we'll knock off some money????? £10 950 later I was feeling as though I had booked one of the UK's best solar installers to fit my system.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!
they told me that their system would HEAT ASSIST!!!! that was the real thing for me , I have a 4 bed semi & heating bills are high.
So here's how it works
You have a panel on the roof (in my case a 2. something square meters) for 4 people , 2 bathroom. A hot water tank (in my case torrent 170) 170 litre capacity. A solar controller ( in my case re-sol B) & a pump to pump the water to the panel and back to the cylinder.
The company told me that my 4 year old combi would not work with thier system, so I had my usual plumber fit a brand new system condensing boiler £1400 later................
It all looked the part!!!
2 Days in and??????
the panel heats the water an absulute treet, the tank get up 2 60'ish degrees the sun sets at 8 'ish now we are in the summer.... by 9 o'clock the tank is down to....... 30 degrees
If we want to shower we can only have 2 of us, after that ????? no more hot water and we have to switch on the boiler to heat the tank.....
My wife likes to shower in the morning...... here we go turn on the boiler so she can have her shower/bath.
We originaly got the panel to be more enviromently freindly and its worked out that we are using more gas now than we were before..
The panel was fitted by a company by the name of solar technik.... Please be careful of solar companys as there does not seem to be any regulatory body to control the fly by nights from the real green fighters..
My advise is have a go yourself.. look around for a set of tubes...install a good solar tank NOT ONE THAT DOES YOUR HEATING!!!! and an expansion tank etc.. There are loads of places to get a plumbing diagram from...
most of all be carefull of salesmen telling you that you can save 80 percent off of your water heating bills....
any comments I'd love to know.. there are no web sites with chat for solar
thanks
Mat
This is my first ever post on this web site.
BIT OF BACKGROUND!!!!
I was very interested in solar water heating and really fancied having some fitted to my house...Looked around a little and selected a company to install after a bit of hard sell from them......You know if you pay us a deposit now we'll knock off some money????? £10 950 later I was feeling as though I had booked one of the UK's best solar installers to fit my system.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!
they told me that their system would HEAT ASSIST!!!! that was the real thing for me , I have a 4 bed semi & heating bills are high.
So here's how it works
You have a panel on the roof (in my case a 2. something square meters) for 4 people , 2 bathroom. A hot water tank (in my case torrent 170) 170 litre capacity. A solar controller ( in my case re-sol B) & a pump to pump the water to the panel and back to the cylinder.
The company told me that my 4 year old combi would not work with thier system, so I had my usual plumber fit a brand new system condensing boiler £1400 later................
It all looked the part!!!
2 Days in and??????
the panel heats the water an absulute treet, the tank get up 2 60'ish degrees the sun sets at 8 'ish now we are in the summer.... by 9 o'clock the tank is down to....... 30 degrees
If we want to shower we can only have 2 of us, after that ????? no more hot water and we have to switch on the boiler to heat the tank.....
My wife likes to shower in the morning...... here we go turn on the boiler so she can have her shower/bath.
We originaly got the panel to be more enviromently freindly and its worked out that we are using more gas now than we were before..
The panel was fitted by a company by the name of solar technik.... Please be careful of solar companys as there does not seem to be any regulatory body to control the fly by nights from the real green fighters..
My advise is have a go yourself.. look around for a set of tubes...install a good solar tank NOT ONE THAT DOES YOUR HEATING!!!! and an expansion tank etc.. There are loads of places to get a plumbing diagram from...
most of all be carefull of salesmen telling you that you can save 80 percent off of your water heating bills....
any comments I'd love to know.. there are no web sites with chat for solar
thanks
Mat