Stuart Gerrish

Stuart Gerrish

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When Stuart Gerrish of Stuart Gerrish Heating Services moved into a modern semi-detached home in a little village called Cradoc just outside Brecon, he inherited an oil-fired boiler due to the countryside location of the property.

At the time of moving in, the house was only 3 years old yet Stuart felt the need to upgrade the central heating and hot water system as the cost of oil was on the increase and his fuel bills looked set to increase in a short space of time.

Solar seemed the perfect solution and so Stuart specified Worcester’s Greenskies panels to complement his oil-fired boiler and help save on water heating costs during the warmer months. He explained: “The prime motivation for installing Greenskies was to lower my expenditure on my heating bills due to the rising cost of oil. The installation itself was really straightforward and the panels soon started to make a difference to the amount of oil we were using.

For example, last April I actually switched the boiler off at the mains and relied on my solar panels throughout the entire summer. Now I hardly use my boiler during the warmer months at all. Even in early March this year, my solar was working well and on decent days in early April, my cylinder was full with a temperature of around 60ºC at the bottom, which is exactly what we want!

I’m now getting more and more people asking me for ways and means of saving money on their heating and hot water bills and am planning to use my own solar installation to show customers the benefits.”