Residential solar heating is for meeting most of your electricity and gas requirements. You can use these solar power plants for generating electricity to light up your house and for heating water in your overhead tanks and swimming pool. This getting very popular and the number of solar homes is increasing day by day just because of the fact this works on a fuel that is available in abundance that too for free. The traditional solar heating design is very simple and you can make a solar heater at home that works well for all your residential solar heating requirements. In the solar heating design that is used at homes traditionally has a solar heat collector, and a tube to pass on the heat to the water so that it gets heated up. This heat collector is usually made of aluminum as it gets heated up soon and is a cheaper metal than others. This solar heat collector must be placed at a place where it can get enough heat to absorb and in turn transfer it to the water that is to be heated. They are placed on the roof or in the garden that is exposed to the heat for the entire day. Any solar heating design has individual cells that need to get sunlight and if any one cell does not get sunlight then it can cause problem for the entire solar heater. You cannot use a shed to protect it because sunlight is the only fuel for these heating devices. Residential solar heating works successfully for most of the homes and can be installed on most of the roofing materials and you just need to take care of the fact that there is no tree around to stop sunlight falling on the solar heat collector. If this is achieved then you can enjoy heating as much ate as you want absolutely free.