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Been renovating a Hrade 2 listed building for around 6 years now, had builders to start with but had to sack them as wasting time, money and rubbish job. Installed 22kW gshp and all running well, now istalling off grid solar and a little confused about how to go fro 3 phase to 3 separate single phase consumer boards. We asked for dno apprpval but local supply can't support us, wanted 50k to put us on 3 phase. Hence Solar and off grid. Iscthere anyonecwho supplies correct kit to go from 200amp 3 phase split down andcsupplying up to 80 amp on any single leg? Picture, link or really good description would be much appreciated. Solar is 48 panels of 410w to 3 x 10kW inverters in parallel. 6 x 100amp 52v batteries in series linked to all 3 inverters, Master and 2 slaves. Output will be from the single master inverter. We will end up off grid. Soon as Solar is running. Don't want ENW to have anything from us!!
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Hello fellow self-builders, We are at the start of our first self-build project. In South Lakes and massively grateful to find ourselves (very unexpected) with this opportunity to create a great place to bring up the kids. So far: We have cleared the site and begun demolition of the unwanted structures such as the animal stalls and partition wall. Installed a waste water treatment unit (currently servicing our on-site temp accommodation) and laid pipes for future connection to house toilets and drains. We are currently wrestling with whether to put in a limecrete floor or ordinary cement floor. Money is a factor. Our risk concern with ordinary cement is the possible rising damp problems it could give us in a lime pointed solid stone wall - but it's cheaper and maybe won't cause those problems. Concerns with the lime floor are the uncertainty of the level of skill required to self-lay it, but it is compatible with a breathable building envelope so preferable if we can afford it and not botch it. Once that decision has been wrangled (any thoughts much appreciated). We will aim to get that installed this summer. I see I am not the only person starting a thread here in barn conversions - nice to have the company Robjones <waves> ttfn
