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I fully accept that having swapped trades half way through my life I don't have the years of experience that many of you guys have and maybe I should have put my time in as an apprentice, but that isn't how it all turned out for me!

I am a qualified electrician with Stroma, but find their technical support patronising and unhelpful to say the least.

I do a lot of standard domestic work but I haven't done a lot of 3 phase. I have a friend who has a domestic 3phase installation which needs re-designing as they are upgrading their old night storage as well as getting new immersion heaters and aga etc. An extension is pending too!

I really want to help them out with project as this as the work lies awkwardly between your average domestic and commercial and they can't find anyone who can deal with it. It would be interesting and push my knowledge but it wouldn't be something I would be prepared to take on without having someone more experienced check my plans.

It would be quite a mission to put it all in a post so I was hoping maybe someone experienced would be willing to chat on the phone or meet up for an hour to talk it through. Happy to pay for the time.
 
This could be a good opportunity to simplify everything and tidy it up a bit - unless there's a good reason for them I'd put everything from those 3x single phase consumer units together in one 3 phase board on RCBOs.

Depending on the layout it may be worth taking sub mains to different parts of the house, but just because they don't currently own any 3 phase equipment doesn't mean they're not going to suddenly decide to make the most of their 3 phase supply, go out and buy a 3 phase pizza oven or welding set, you know, because they can.
 

Depending on the layout it may be worth taking sub mains to different parts of the house, but just because they don't currently own any 3 phase equipment doesn't mean they're not going to suddenly decide to make the most of their 3 phase supply, go out and buy a 3 phase pizza oven or welding set, you know, because they can.

They may even decide to have a stage the garden and host a mini festival!
 

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