Options for Solar Hot Water?

[dormouseheating]

Leave your boilers as they are. Install P.V. panels and use the emmersion heaters for free hot water. Preferably a cylinder with coils at the side not on the top. You also get F.I.T. payments back from the govenment for supplying electricity. Boiler is just for heating then inttit ?

The electric pv is a good option also but i would assume it hasn't been mentioned as you need 17th edition electrics if i'm not mistaken and i think the majority of the members here are gas and possibly part p at best.

[Paloma]

I also heard that boiler’s are too old to heat water. Now we are using the Solar water heating systems use free heat from the sun to warm domestic hot water. It reduces fossil fuel. A conventional boiler or immersion heater is then used to make the water hotter, or to provide hot water when solar energy is unavailable.

[freddyarsner]

As far as I think BLUEJAY, you should opt for thermal heaters rather than any other heaters, because these are more efficient and safe, than those of combi.