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Energy & Repair

Solar, insulation, heat pumps, repair cafes, tools to borrow, things that broke and how they were fixed.

House rule — Post the numbers. What it cost, what it saved, what went wrong.

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Energy & RepairExample

Twelve months of solar on a 1930s semi, all the numbers

Off Ringley Road

4.1 kWp on a south-east facing roof, installed last September, £6,180 all in. Generated 3,340 kWh over the year. Self-consumed 58% of it, which is higher than the installer predicted because we moved the washing to the middle of the day.

Bill before: £1,410. Bill after, including export: £520. What went wrong: the first inverter failed in February and took five weeks to replace, which is the part nobody puts in the brochure.

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