Costs of installing solar panels on your house

[kev67]

Originally Posted by LMagic007

Well it seems difficult to really know the facts in detail.

I expect solar hot water panels, plus solar cells would likely cost more than £4000 and more likely be around the £9000 mark. These are typically two separate systems. I wonder if this guy may have even bought £9000 worth of solar cells to provide electricity to heat his home and provide hot water. Perhaps not.

It's difficult to be certain what he actually did. The initial post just says he spent £9000 on solar panels. It does not really get into the detail of what type of panels he bought.

Also it talks about him not being able to have a hot bath or shower in the morning after installation. Now is that for just the morning of installation of did they mean every morning ? That aspect is a bit confusing.

Fancy plumbing and a new boiler would certainly add to the cost. Perhaps he added some sort of home heating system along with hot water system ?

I think we need more information to evaluate the situation further.

I don't know all the details. I believe it was main solar thermal panels for heating water, as my boss said that part of the cost was all the extra plumbing. It's very difficult to believe that could come to 9 grand though. Since he had oil heating before, perhaps that would explain why he needed so much plumbing done. I think the lack of hot water in the morning, or at least having to supplement his solar heating in the morning is an on-going thing because obviously, the sun doesn't shine at night.

I have a friend who is going to try build his own solar thermal water heating system. Since he is extremely tight with money, he is going to try do it as cheap as possible. I'll be interested to see how he gets on. The thing that most puts me off with DIY schemes is the plumbing. I doubt my plumbing skill would be up to it.

[Josph_Cooper]

i got a quote from- www.solarwaterheating.eu

it does take a long time to recover the cost.

[LMagic007]

Yes especially in the UK, that said, their summers do seem to be getting warmer.

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