Product Description

Learn how to build, mount and install your own solar water heating system with this CAT classic. No other UK book covers the same ground. This easy to follow, heavily illustrated, guide takes you through every step from construction to fitting and controls. This fully updated edition includes information on the legal requirements of current Building Regulations legislation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43262 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 64 pages

Electronics and Beyond
'This book is a must...' (for previous edition)

Synopsis
A do-it-yourself solar water heating guide.

From the Publisher
Now available in a practical spiral bound format ideal for use in the workshop.

Customer Reviews

no longer feasible under building regs
This book gives clear instructions to build either clip-fin or radiator solar water heating panels. You could indeed accomplish this (including the circuit board pump controller) for the claimed £350. However, there is a caveat at the end; recent building regulations changes mean that unless you are an electrician and a plumber the process will be far more costly.

Excellent, concise, practical
This 24 page booklet provides all the information needed to build and install a DIY solar heating system. The author is knowledgable and his text is pleasingly free from from padding and dogma - e.g. he suggests the ideal location and orientation for a solar collector then continues to specify a range of measurements within which the collector's performance won't be adversely affected.

The time I saved in not having to plough through pages of irrelevant Google results (as one other reviewer suggested) is worth far more to me than the modest cover price of this book. Probably the best "how to" book I've read.

Not worth £5.99
This book / phamplet is ok IF it was £1.99. With a bit of effort you can find all the information in this book via google. The design of the solar collector could be better and i'm not convinced that this book concentrates on a great design. Overall at £5.99 it is overpriced and the same information is probably available in an ebook for 99p on eBay. Informative for the complete novice.