“Can you install a 3 phase supply for a heat pump, and a car charger?”
The remit seemed quite straightforward.
A 6 bedroom 3 floor farmhouse needing renovation. I was asked to check over the electrics, and oversee the installation of a 3 phase supply for the ground source heat pump and car charger.
Then the project morphed into a full rewire, including data, heat pump, project management of electrics, car charger, multiple lighting circuits, two three phase distribution boards, and a mile of wire…
Let’s add, CCTV system, electric gate, security lights, and power to a shed.
One of the original fuse boards. Actually these tested out OK on the EICR (condition report). Just because it's old doesn't always mean it's broken...
Laying in conduit below the concrete floor to take the 3 phase to the centre of the house.
Conduit in place. Insulation and DPM replaced.
The other end of the 3 phase cable in the garage.
Concrete with underfloor heating poured.
Ring main for washing machine and dryer and dishwasher ready to go.
6 lighting circuits in the kitchen.
Feeds for microwave, fridge, oven built in appliances.
Ring main sockets either side of the alcove, downlights above the alcove...
The bricklayer measuring up for the 3 phase meter cabinet.
Thermostat cable for the underfloor heating controller.
Meter cupboard ready for the new kit.
Tidy.
Meter cupboard inside garage.
DB2 being wired in, in the centre of the house.
Trunking in the garage.... now then, you hold that there, I'll hold this... errr... yeah! Should work!
Tadaa. It worked.
DB1 in garage before wiring.
WPD arrive to pull the 3 phase main supply cable through 168m of conduit ... using a digger.
Cable reel at the other end.
It stopped traffic. For a bit...
The new cable appearing out of the conduit, with the new water pipe next to it.
WPD connecting up the phases.
And that is what a 3 phase junction box looks like!
Suspended ceiling - adding a light circuit.
Part of the ring main in the study.
Do not plasterboard! Until the cables are covered in plate steel.
Downlighters going in...
Let there be light...
And there was light. Pendants are temporary until the real deal arrive.
Steel plate protection added to alcove.
Fridge and microwave supply, and oven switch, inside cupboard.
Hob switch.
DB1 all labelled up. I love labels.
Bathroom lighting plan.
Before the heat pump is installed - I have pulled the big three phase wire through the wall...
100m of armoured CAT5e for the gate video feed.
Wiring in the upstairs lights, it transpired the builders had missed a wire to be pulled through into a hallway light rose. Rather than go up into the newly plastered ceiling, we went down from above (in the attic), and patched it.
Plumber has almost got the pipework done.
Another light fitting. 41 lights downstairs. 38 upstairs.
Couple of track lights fitted in the Utility.
Track light and occupancy sensor in the pantry.
Fitting a track light, where there was a ceiling rose before - so moving the wire 50cm to the left, and adding a hidden Wago junction box.
Track light after moving wire to left.
Some lovely pendant lights in the kitchen.
Sockets! USB and normal.
Adding the hammered copper faceplates on the toggle switches.
And copper faceplates on the sockets...
More sockets. And light switches, upstairs.
A couple of low profile lights in a bay window
"Can you move the bathroom light switch, we've decided to put a towel rail there...."
Lightswitch now moved :)
Measuring up for the bathroom downlights
Downlight holes cut
Car charger installed
Outside lights wired in
Heat pump energised
The TT boards for the gate, outside socket and car charger
Earth rod for the car charger