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This is looking so good now. Thanks for sharing everything and allowing us to live your dream vicariously!
I would also be interested in the turbine details. What's the expected lifetime, cost to maintain and output profile over a typical year of weather conditions up there? And also, how much power do you lose through making the output supply suitable for / compatible with "domestic use"?
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@jv sorry I haven’t got back to either of you on this yet.. the one we’ve gone for is an sd6. It used to be owned by kingspan but guess it’s a Japanese company now. Expected lifetime is about 25 years, although now the tower is up replacing the head completely would only be about 6k. Think it’ll be in the region of £5 or 600 for an annual check and the guy says with these all he really does is maintenance and doesn’t get many faults (although, he would say that haha). We got ours through Orkney renewables so don’t know where you would go locally for more info, maybe the energy savings trust? I think I’ve got the output profiles earlier in the thread but I’ll try and dig them out again. We get an average wind speed of 7.2m/s over the year which is significantly higher than average in the uk I think. No idea about the loss in power but hoping minimal, think this will be stuff we properly learn when it’s in situ and functioning over time.
@ketsbaia I’m really excited to follow your search for potential places! Now you’ve said it online you know you kind of need to now don’t you?
Everything is closed off for the flashings and solar panels to go on today now the wind has died and the builder is hoping to start on the external render today too 🤞🏻 I spent some days going through and tidying the larch as well as getting every board in the workshop screwed to 150mm centres.
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Folks left yesterday and we managed to get everything finished! Started at 7 and finished at 11 yesterday morning just to get the last couple pieces of cement board in and the place tidied up. Long, tiring week for all of us but pretty proud of what we achieved. It was a shell when we started moving all the sheeting and things in on Sunday and now the trusses are insulated, there’s wool up in the ceiling for laying, 2 layers of 15mm plasterboard on the walls and then insulating and sheeting the walls with ply and cement board. I think if the trades had achieved the same in the week I might have been pretty impressed too!
It means a lot to me as they’re getting older that I’ll be able to point at parts of the workshop and know we did that together. A large memory from my childhood was following behind my dad trying to carry his red toolbox as he did up or repaired things. Nice that it’s kind of come full circle.
Because my life is just to do lists these days we went straight from dropping them at the boat to helping sheet a big polytunnel for friends of ours yesterday. They’d helped get the sheet on ours last summer so was only right I reckon!
Also, I love the cladding when it’s wet!