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**TheIronDuke** · 02-11-2011, 20:50

Originally Posted by Clint0001

i am free for install give you good price

Let me guess.. Polish? No. I am getting Fergal on the back pallete? Hmmm.. Nah. I am bored now. Fuck off.

The Solar job is the next big thing. The FIT will go down from 42p to half that, but the cost of the panels has gone down by half too. A year ago we were doing 4kw installs for £12 - £10k. Today we can do them for £8k. With the new Sony panels we'll be doing them for... dunno. Maybe £6k by Feb next year?

**leveller** · 02-11-2011, 21:00

Originally Posted by TheIronDuke

Let me guess.. Polish? No. I am getting Fergal on the back pallete? Hmmm.. Nah. I am bored now. Fuck off.

The Solar job is the next big thing. The FIT will go down from 42p to half that, but the cost of the panels has gone down by half too. A year ago we were doing 4kw installs for £12 - £10k. Today we can do them for £8k. With the new Sony panels we'll be doing them for... dunno. Maybe £6k by Feb next year?

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**Closet_Jibber** · 02-11-2011, 21:07

Bump - I'm considering this too. Never going to be able to afford it but I like toying with the idea.

**Oyibo** · 02-11-2011, 21:26

I looked at this in some depth in SA where the panels are cheaper and there's more sunlight. Unfortunately, it was not economically viable - the break even point was about 5 years and the panels and associated gubbins only had a 10 year expectancy.

All that said, I think there was a scheme in the UK whereby you get the solar installation almost free due.

**lindauk45** · 02-11-2011, 21:30

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**Onetap** · 02-11-2011, 21:43

Originally Posted by vinniethemanxcat

I'm in plumbing and heating, and personally. I think it isn't worth a light.

I'm a building services engineer and my thoughts are similar. A domestic installation should mean that you wouldn't have to run a boiler to heat
water in the summer months. A waste of time for space heating in the UK. A realistic payback time would make it ridiculous as an investment. If you're doing the install yourself and are competent in that area, you'd know what you're getting. You'd do better asking on a heating forum; UK-DIY and DIYnot.com are fairly good, IMHO. The snake-oil salesmen have moved en-masse into solar-PV and solar thermal.

Originally Posted by vinniethemanxcat

Myself, I've put in a wood burner, much more cost effective, if you can source cheap wood, which I can.

Yep; I did the Hetas courses. I suspect there won't be a single tree or a timber fence standing in the UK within a generation.