Outsourcing for electricity

Kyle and I are both having to learn a lot of new things to pursue this project. We quite enjoy that part, but there comes a point where we simply don't have time to learn everything we need to. One of the most significant areas was electrical wiring and solar panels. This is a big, sometimes complicated area that we knew very little about to start with (by very little I mean high school science level of understanding, enough to figure out where the cables need to go but not which parts to buy). The learning curve is not insurmountable, but the time it would take would mean there are other things we can't learn that we need to. Just like money, and building materials, and space, time is a resource we have to budget for.

So we're outsourcing for the electrical wiring. Not necessarily to a professional electrician (though we know we legally have to have one to do any 240V wiring), but to my Dad who has kindly offered to help. Dad had to learn all about solar panels and wiring when he built a motorhome a few years ago, which he and my Mum drove from Malaysia to Scotland and back (for real - go check it out). So he has a fair bit of experience with solar systems (though a bit smaller than the system we'll have), and how to repair them when something goes bung and you can't just drop down to the store for parts.

At some point we'll get Dad to do a guest post about it all, because we don't know very much about it yet (we're getting Dad to do it so we don't have to spend time learning just yet).