It's your house... What would you prefer?

 

Competitor's Solution

Our Solution

Of course we all know the answer... Neatness counts! Decades of experience and an attitude of treating your house as if it were our own allow us to give you a clean and attractive installation at no additional cost.

It’s one more reason to ask your prospective installer for referrals and look at a completed installation before you purchase. Remember, if what you can see doesn’t look good, think about the quality of the materials and installation that you can’t see.

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We Start With A Quality Install... And Stand Behind Our Product

One of our largest competitors in New Jersey installed this solar pool heating system using plastic wire ties to cut costs. After a few years in the sun, the wire ties became brittle and broke. The homeowner was so fed up with his original contractor, he called in Solar Living to repair his system correctly. The homeowner later confided that the 'other guy' was cheaper, now he knows why!

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If It's "Cheap", There's A Reason

We ran into this ground rack for a solar pool heating system installed by a competitor here in New Jersey. The owner of this rack gave up trying to get his original contractor to come and fix it, and finally called us. You can see a complete lack of bracing between the rafters, and chicken wire and roofing fabric used to support the panels. This doesn't stand up to a New Jersey winter, and the panels collapsed under a snow load. Compare this to how we build our ground racks.

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The Homeowner Special - Why You Should Leave It To The Pros

The solar domestic hot water system at this home was installed by Solar Living in 1983. It operated with only a few minor repairs for 23 years, when the current owner called to have the system dismantled. As it turns out, someone along the way decided to build some additional solar collectors out of plywood, garden hose, and plastic sheeting.

Not only did this damage the existing solar system (through faulty connection of the garden hose plumbing), the roof suffered as well due to improper securing of the homeowner-made "collectors."

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Beware Of Snake Oil Products

We gave a prospective customer a proposal for an adequately sized pool system for their large 800 square foot pool. A pool supplier told them they could do more with less and "build a fence out of the collectors." The customer chose the pool supplier's system since it was cheaper, smaller, and claimed the same performance.

Aside from the obvious installation quality, this system is horribly undersized (only about 10% of what is actually needed), and the vertical collectors cannot fully capture the high sun angles in the summer months.

The customer ultimately had this fence post system ripped out, and had Solar Living install a properly sized, high quality Solar Industries Solar Pool Heating System. There are many ways to heat pool water, but only a few that work reliably for decades!