Product Description

This book provides step-by-step instructions for the average do-it-yourself home owner or hobbyist for building a fully functional solar heating system capable of pre-heating water for a water heater and heating a house in winter. The project described in the book, was built with easily available tools and resources so that it can be duplicated by anyone who is handy with basic tools and construction techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #362298 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 134 pages

About the Author
Kenneth Clive is a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota and has a Masters degree in Physics. He has designed and built many different projects and has a passion for self-sufficiency and eco-friendly power production. He has used his technical knowledge and interest in alternative energy to build the solar heating system described in this book.

Customer Reviews

Build Your Own Solar Heating System
I will be using the information from only a portion of this book. I am handy and could build the system but is a much bigger project than I want to get into at this time. The system requires digging a huge pit for a storage tank. I will be using solar panel design for my water heating system, though I will be changing it to meet my needs.

Basic DIY
A thorough cronicle of one DIY project. Good construction details. Weakness is lack of anything approaching engineering or sizing basis. If you want to construct "something" this is adequate. If you want a specific heat output to match a house size this doesn't have it.

Solar Energy: building your own system
The contents of the book are as the title says, for building yourself your own solar heating system. The book elaborates a lot on how exactly do the plumbing and building work but fails to explains some basics. These basics/rules of thumb are however well explained in another book I bought "Solar Water Heating".

I plan to get various offers from companies, select the best offer, based on what I have learned by means of solar heating books, not to build the system myself, so the book was not the right choice for my needs. I would not buy it again.