Off grid house build Orkney

Thanks so much for this. I’ve sent them some pictures but haven’t heard back from them yet.. poor guy is probably still sitting at his desk with his head in his hands.. I wasn’t angry about it in the email and did make sure they knew I appreciated the effort.

@user147895 wow, this could be really useful, thank you! Going to try and give him a call this week but if not will get in touch next week. You’re possibly a lifesaver!
I think the heat pump thing is maybe people overthinking things, or overestimating how often we’ll be without power. Between the generation we have, the storage and our willingness to go without things if we don’t have much power I think we’ll see less power outages than we’ve seen planned and unplanned powercuts annually where we’re renting, and those houses are still recommended to have heat pumps installed. I think people are assuming we’ll be running our batteries down to nothing every other day which just won’t be the case.

Stunning sunset the other night after the island’s agricultural show. Also got to meet the sheep we might be getting for the field. Meet Erik the red (the one with the brown face) , that’s a recessive ginger trait in the boreray breed and they want to have someone keeping them and trying to increase the numbers.

We also got our fancy looking green kitchen extractor which I think will sit nicely against the green wall, and managed to fit a huge amount of internal scaffolding my partner borrowed from her work in the Volvo, I love this car!

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