Very, very blessed...

Down comes the broken one :)

With Brian's wonderful help the new one went up :)

You may remember that over a year ago I had nothing but problems with our Solar Hot Water Panels... One broke due to frost. It has a thermostat which means that the pump should have pumped up warm water or taken all of the water out of the panel in the first place. It should never have busted in the first place...

Anyway, long story short I ended up organising to have the booster switch put on Tariff 31 which meant that it only heated during the night hours and at a fraction of day time hours power costs. Worked really well :) Then a lovely couple by the name of Michelle and Brian had exactly the same panels and set up as ours as we built with the same company at the same time... They had nothing but problems and had the electronics in their system die on them. It was going to cost them way too much to replace it all and in the end they found out that the company has gone into receivership anyway... So they went for Instant Gas Hot Water instead...

Glad they did too as we scored their two working panels. How lovely was that off them. Another member of our community ended up with their 400 litre tank :) How blessed are we all :) All cost nothing as these items would have only gone to the tip anyway. This way there was less landfill and I could organise for the panel that was broken to be replaced.

I did just that and within a week had our plumber our and Brian even helped to get the old one down and the new one up :) Now we are going to take the broken one apart and sell it for parts, especially the copper :) The other panel will stay with us as a spare :)

Love the community spirit in this place. :) Now I have two panels working and loving having my solar back on track :) :) :) :)

Cheers Damaris