I am giving away 4 square metres of solar thermal panels. They were in working order when removed from my roof in April 2025 to make way for new solar equipment.
The solar thermal panels were installed by Balsall Heath Housing Coop in 2005. They give you hot water from solar heat. In my house this was used to pre-heat water for a hot water cylinder, for baths, hand-washing, washing-up. They could also be used to pre-heat hot water in Spring and Autumn for a heating systems for a gas boiler or heat pump
The equipment consists of 2 x solar thermal collector panels with an area of 4 square metres. At the time of installation they were predicted to give 1200 kWh of heat during the course of a 12-month period, i.e. approximately half of the house’s demand for domestic hot water. For 20 years, they gave me pretty much all of my domestic hot water between April and October and I rarely had to use any gas to heat the cylinder during this time. Between October and April they gave me some of my domestic hot water and I had to use the gas boiler a few times a week to get the water up to the required temperature.
I was very happy with the solar thermal panels but the opportunity came along to replace them with a more modern and versatile solar application and so I am giving them away free to a good home.
You will need a van and two people to take them with you (currently stored in my garden), a plumber, pipework, a pump, controls, and a hot water cylinder to connect them to.
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Photo is of the solar panels on my roof.