Product Description

Buy this book before you buy a solar water heating system and it could save you hundreds of pounds... Learn how the various types of system work, how many panels you'll need, how much it should cost and how much you might save in energy bills over the lifetime of the system. Includes information on resources for advice on grants, suppliers and manufacturers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124536 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 64 pages

Professional Heating and Plumbing Installer magazine
'Product of the year, 2004' (for the previous edition)

From the Publisher
A CAT classic reformatted and revised for the 21st century - make sure you know what you're talking about before you talk to the salesmen.

Customer Reviews

A Hot Topic - but this book isn't
I imagine I'm like a lot of other people attracted to green technology and saving a bit of money, this book was recommended as a good primer.

It's not very helpful at whichever level you want advice. There is rather a lot of stating the obvious. The science and engineering in it is pretty poor, and the explanations are muddled. Calculating the payback period is important when deciding how much to invest, but this is poorly covered. There is little practical advice on system vendors, or if it's DIY, getting hold of parts, assembling a system and the "gotchas" to look out for.
After reading it I was not confident that I could scope a system for my house, or know the best place to buy, or get the bits to build one. And I'm an engineer by profession. As a guidebook it falls rather short of the mark. Perhaps a subsequent edition could be more rigorously reviewed and edited?

Very expensive for the information
I was slightly gobsmacked to see how little information was included in this for the price. Particularly as several of the limited pages were used to list phone numbers and addresses such as the carbon trust. The information is competently presented, but in reality it is incredible expensive for what you get.

Simplistic
This book (if you can call it that) is no more than a brief introduction to the topic. I learned nothing new.
In effect it is just a little leaflet in spiral bound form. In my opinion it is a rip-off and a complete waste of money.