DIY Solar Water Heating

If you search online for long enough you’ll uncover a number of websites giving instructions of how to make your own solar water heating collector.

Many go into great detail of how to create a panel for the fraction of the cost of a manufacturer panel. However, there are numerous issues with trying to implement your own solar water heating system.

Firstly, unless you’re an experienced and skilled solar panel builder, the collector you build yourself is not going to be as effective as a professionally built unit. Also, your own version won’t come with a warranty, whereas a manufacturer panel will be covered for five to ten years.

And it’s not the panel that’s necessarily expensive when purchasing a solar water heating system. Much of the cost is down to the installation itself including the plumbing and the scaffolding that will have to go on to implement it. It will be extremely difficult to find a professional installer to implement a system that uses a home-made solar water heating panel. And a lot of the time you can get a better deal on buying the installation and the panels together from the same firm.