Dave's £900 Homemade Solar Water Heating System

David lives at 52 degree North latitude in the UK -- a pretty tough location for solar water heating, but his homemade system works quite well.

The system is loosely modeled after our $1K system, but has a number of noteworthy features:

• Very nice workmanship and details.
  
  
• Solar heat is stored in the existing house thermal storage tank (which is used for both space and domestic water heating).
  
  
• An aesthetically pleasing collector and mounting arrangement.
  
  
• A pumping station that is mounted in a weather protected box on the back of the collector.
  
  
• A freeze protection system that takes into account his unique circumstances.

Dave is a professional plumber who now teaches plumbing, and this shows in the attention to detail in the design and the careful workmanship.

Thanks very much to David for sending this in!