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Solar heating
Jun. 9th, 2004 09:08 pmWe had a "consultant" (pronounced "salesman", it turns out) from Smart Energy round this evening (rebooked from Monday when they didn't turn up). He was annoyed that, as we'd said repeatedly in the phone calls booking the meeting, we're only doing preliminary feasibility investigations and not interested in signing up for anything immediately (and that I was unimpressed by them being ISO 9002 certified). I was annoyed that he was rude to my wife, somewhat clueless, and didn't listen when I attempted to correct some of his cluelessness.
(He tried claiming that increasing the panel size by 50% would be enough to run the underfloor heating in winter as well as give hot water in summer. He said that solar panels won't run central heating. He continued to maintain both those positions after being repeatedly told that the underfloor heating is a central heating system.)
So, that's one supplier almost certainly ruled out, which is a shame because the actual kit (which is actually from a Swiss manufacturer) looked quite plausible, though I wasn't entirely convinced by some of the claims.
(He tried claiming that increasing the panel size by 50% would be enough to run the underfloor heating in winter as well as give hot water in summer. He said that solar panels won't run central heating. He continued to maintain both those positions after being repeatedly told that the underfloor heating is a central heating system.)
So, that's one supplier almost certainly ruled out, which is a shame because the actual kit (which is actually from a Swiss manufacturer) looked quite plausible, though I wasn't entirely convinced by some of the claims.