Only Roof Stuff

Following on from an earlier post on Solar Roof Tiles, I have found a great site called "Scenes from the Roof". That site covers not only solar but everything else you could think of about roofs and roofing.

This site has information on:

Green Roofs, Solar Roofing, Contractors, Equipment, Products, Safety and more.

Check them out for yourselves at www.roofinfo.com

Solar Panel Roof Tiles

Here is a great environmentally friendly building product.

Why have solar panels added onto your roof when the actual roof tiles themselves can be the solar panels and collect all the energy you need.

"instead of having a huge solar panel system fixed to the roof, this new system has actually built the solar panels into roof tiles, which will make the whole process easier and much more secure as the tiles are actually built into the roof instead of on the roof as with conventional solar power systems"

Read the full story here on the Green News blog.

Free Solar Hot Water System

Here is an interesting offer by an Australian company called "Earth Utility". Earth Utility will install a Solar Hot Water system, and all you pay is a quarterly Service Fee. Here is an excerpt from the site:

With Earth Utility, switching to solar hot water doesn't cost the Earth!'

Switch to solar and save up to 30% on your energy bills1 and carbon emissions each year.

We offer no upfront purchase or installation costs - an instant savings of $6,000 - $8,000. We supply the entire system (tank, collector and pump) and arrange installation by licensed plumbers.

We own and service the system over the contract term with no future maintenance hassles for you.

All you pay is a flat fee of Less than $1 a day incl. GST

Click here to go to their site.