Muhendis

Oops. Didn't mean to offend you. My thoughts were regarding motor cyclists respect for other road users.

In the bathroom probably. Have a look around the floor, there may be another drain somewhere to allow accidental water overflow to have an escape route. These are generally inadequate as regards water traps.

What!? To get a motor bike license? Give over.

Yes any government hospital will know what is required for about 100 Bhat. As has been mentioned, it's just a few basic pulse, BP and eyesight tests. I was also given a colour blindness test which involved looking at a few cards with coloured spots and identifying the hidden number. You will get a signed, prepared letter which the land department will want.

What's your water like? Mine is hard as nails. Calcium from gypsum rock 51 metres down. I use a surface water well almost exclusively. The time when I switched over to the bore hole was for only a few months but the calcium damage was not nice.

Well yes. Equipment does fail from time to time but I note yours failed "safe" which is normally the default. I expect, when this happens again, you will check your isolator/CB before having companies dig holes to look for faults. With the exception of a Safe T Cut, I have had a few MCB devices fail but always they have failed open circuit which, whilst a nuisance, is not dangerous.

I understand intimately how much love insects have for rural, well lit homesteads.

You might like to leave a bit of roof space for a solar hot water heat exchanger and a bit of space below for a few hundred ltrs of insulated storage.

I've been using Google Sketchup (as was) for the past 20 years or so but only because it's free.

That's a total of 21.6kw which is excessive for most inverters which all have limits of input power. It would be interesting to work out the angles of each batch of panels to reduce the power outputs throughout the year so that they will never exceed the inverter limitations. Have you done your power requirement calcs. yet?

Looks really good. Observations are as before. Flat rooves leak. I have a flat car port roof. It leaks My neighbour has a flat house roof. It leaks. A strong DPM would be necessary twit roof concrete and final screed but then I expect your architect has something in mind for that anyway. I don't see where you are going to park the Cesna.

I think you might have difficulty to finding a supplier of 125A fuses. So not needed. Make sure the Circuit breaker is rated for DC use.

Yup. 5 Metres is the required minimum headroom at the lowest sag point for traffic to pass under and, as always, across a road there has to be a marker on the lowest point for drivers to spot the wires.

Thanks for the sad info re. Darren I had some slight hickups getting my new passport sent on to me so I think Darren must have passed away just before that time. I found him to be very helpful.

In case the OP is worrying It's important to understand this has very little to do with mounting the beasts and everything to do with manufacturing tolerances. I had some panels which were so poorly made that the ali strips were not making a good enough contact with the cells (series connections) and the higher resistance resulted in sufficient local heat to shatter the glass completely. Very rare but immediately noticeable since the output goes down a wee bit. ????

We have about 9 metres of U shaped worktop and a 1 x 1 M island and it's always chock-a block. Don't put too much faith in what your wife says "will do". She is probably thinking of keeping the cost down.

Serving hatch?

Panel expansion is not normally a problem especially with brackets of thinner metal that can flex a little. What can happen is that, if the glass panel is a tight fit in the frame, the glass can crack under the thermal strain. I have a panel which did just that. It's like crazy paving. The panel stull works just fine because the silicone underneath is undamaged and the cracks seem to be still waterproof.

Brilliant Pity they didn't do that 1st time.

And strong enough for megawatts of solar panels. You seem a bit light on worktop space in the kitchen areas.

Global House seems to be the go to place for solar equipment these days.

A bit like this? Perhaps you could adopt something similar.

Good thinking but I didn't do that and it still works. Do you think the infrequent use may be the reason why it works without plastic or shade cloth (whatever that is)?

Those solar panel mounting brackets are a neat idea. I notice they are fixed to the trough section of the roof material. Do I also see silicon sealant and rubber washers? Good bit of engineering there.

Before my house was built, it was nothing more than a 1 Rai x 1 metre high island of soil. I had a truck wide slope adjacent to one corner which went to the original land level. I guess the slope must have been about 15º. After the next rainy season when I saw it again the slope had developed some water channels and was eroding. My fix was a large lorry full of mixed aggregate which we spread over the slope filling canals and making a decent looking gravel road. We smoothed it a bit by driving my car backwards an forwards on it. That was about 11 years or so ago. The stones are still there but invisible below a layer, added by nature, of soil and grass which took about a year or so to develop. It's a totally non-professional approach but it works.