Solar panels


Slightly off topic, but wet underfloor heating is incomparably better than electric underfloor heating. For the avoidance of doubt, wet underfloor heating is class and electric underfloor heating is rubbish.
How about electric CEILING heating though.

My house has/had that!
 
Fraction of the cost to run too..

I have water underfloor in 70% of my downstairs.. it's lovely... The rest is electric which I rarely use and isn't anywhere near as good. Very pricey to run
So probably better getting an immersion fitted and run it from that?
 
So probably better getting an immersion fitted and run it from that?
Mijne runs from the Worcester Bosch.. it was put in when house was built.. the electric is where extensions have been added.. the back conservatory I'm hoping to replace this year with a solid build and I'll look at running a water feed into that
 
Mijne runs from the Worcester Bosch.. it was put in when house was built.. the electric is where extensions have been added.. the back conservatory I'm hoping to replace this year with a solid build and I'll look at running a water feed into that
Yeah I'm ripping out a kitchen, knocking through passage and dining room then extending out where a conservatory is. So need to heat the whole area.
 
Yeah I'm ripping out a kitchen, knocking through passage and dining room then extending out where a conservatory is. So need to heat the whole area.
I wouldn't try to heat that area using electric UFH as the primary heat source. You'd be much better off with radiators. Wet you'd be fine, although it would probably mean digging up your floor.
 
I’ve been interested for a while but we decided that £10k+ upfront is too expensive, and we’re keeping our cash in stock market investments instead.

If we all vote Labour then they may introduce FREE SOLAR PANELS to all of the fantastic working class people who’ve been shafted for so long.
 
Me dad got talked into a 30 year lease ( was 82 at the time) reet clart on with the company when i was selling his house after he passed Away. Some estate won’t even put your house on their books if your have solar panels on a lease.
 
I wouldn't try to heat that area using electric UFH as the primary heat source. You'd be much better off with radiators. Wet you'd be fine, although it would probably mean digging up your floor.
All getting renovated so happy for it to come up.
 
Me dad got talked into a 30 year lease ( was 82 at the time) reet clart on with the company when i was selling his house after he passed Away. Some estate won’t even put your house on their books if your have solar panels on a lease.
I don't think those "free panels" deals really exist anymore. Everyone here is talking about buying them outright, so there is no "lease" to another company.

Mind, you can sell the rights to FITs payments to a couple of companies, they offer a decent sum too. They swear its not a "lease" deal that you're getting into, but it amounts the same thing really. I've considered it a few times on the house I rent out. I'll probably just keep banking the £1k/yr though. 14 years to go out of 25!
 
I wouldn't try to heat that area using electric UFH as the primary heat source. You'd be much better off with radiators. Wet you'd be fine, although it would probably mean digging up your floor.
Don’t necessarily have to rip up the floor, there’s some really good slim UFH systems on the market now. We had it put through the kitch & dining room a couple of years ago and it only raised floor by about 38mm iirc. We had Karndean floor put down rather than ceramic tiles and there’s not much difference level wise overall.
 
Just had a quote from GEC

4.62kW solar power across 11 panels either side of roof. 5.12kWh battery. With inverter and installation etc £10.495.

Will get a couple more quotes but want to move pretty quickly on it.
 
Just had a quote from GEC

4.62kW solar power across 11 panels either side of roof. 5.12kWh battery. With inverter and installation etc £10.495.

Will get a couple more quotes but want to move pretty quickly on it.

Very similar price to mine.. 12 panels I spent close to a grand on optimizers
 
During winter charge on cheap rate at night and discharge next day
During Summer it depends how big your array is and if you'll have excess generation
So can the systems be set up to check how full the battery is and if it needs topping up at night then it only does it during the off-peak rate times?
 

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