[Greenbuilding] Water Heaters/Solar

[Kirsten A Flynn]

Where is this house?  My experience as a home owner is extremely  
positive with Solar thermal, with over production of hot water being  
my biggest problem in the summer, right when you would want to heat a  
pool.  As my solar repairman said, "you just need to pee in the hot  
tub" (meaning put a P line with a heat exchanger into the hot tub  
system to use some of my summer excess production of heat, but it  
still made me laugh.)  However I am in sunny northern CA.

Kirsten A Flynn
Sustainable Home
www.sustainablehome.com

On Nov 5, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Tim Vireo Keating wrote:

> A friend is doing renovations to a home built in the '50s that she
> just purchased. The water heater and furnace are pretty new (the gas
> furnace has a rating of around 81). The contractor has suggested
> leaving these in place (since they're new) and adding another hot
> water heater, which can be turned off in the summer.
>
> They're adding a heated pool in the backyard, so I'd be interested in
> hearing thoughts about heating that. We're looking to utilize
> SunSlates for solar both on the house and the small poolhouse (which
> is currently a shed with an outdoor shower and it's own hot water
> heater (also relatively new) that will be expanded to have an indoor
> shower and changing room).
>
> We're also looking at a thermal system beneath the SunSlates for hot  
> water.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> tim keating
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