Mary Fisher wrote:
"Bioboffin" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Mary Fisher wrote:
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You have a point, but I'm not yet convinced that it would be a
cost-effective improvement for us. I suspect that most house
buyers tend to be more impressed by modern-looking kitchens than
by solar cells on the roof.

What exactly do you mean by solar cells?

Are you talking about solar water heatinig or pv panels?


I wasn't really drawing a distinction.

There are huge distinctions!

I guess that currently solar water heating is the more usual,
because it is cheaper to install.

No, it's because it's efficient in Britain, which PV can't match.

On the other hand, you can end up with overheated water in the
summer.

Can you???

What makes you say that?

Personal experience.

It hasn't been ours even in this year's very high temperatures. I
think you've had the wrong type.

It wasn't actually me - it was a friend. It was, I think, a home installed
unit - and worked fine, but did produce very hot water this summer. Her
comment was that she was finding it difficult to use all the hot water
produced, and that the tap water was becoming unacceptably hot. No doubt
this is not a serious issue to fix.

I am certainly attracted to the technology, and I plan to implement it in
the house we buy after this one. I just have a feeling that doing a lot now
would (a) cost a lot of money which I can't afford and (b) not help the sale
prospects for the house in the city where we live. (Peterborough).

I might well be wrong!

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John