fatjay
Veteran Member
As we're a bit off the beaten path, we're always the last people that the plow trucks get out to, and the utility trucks get out to. I lose power 4-6 times a year, and it's getting a bit old. I have a well, and this past saturday I lost it for 12 hours, 8am to 8pm, because a semi clipped a pole. It took them 8 hours to get out and 4 to fix it.
My house has 100a service. Granted, I don't use all of that, but I want a 10k generator, roughly 8k continuous. I'll get an electrician out to install the transfer switch. Problem is my garage is on the opposite side of the house as the electrical box. Don't care want to drag it through the snow to power the house, though, and don't want to run power to the opposite side of the house for that level of cables.
So I was thinking I could build a little house for it on the side of my house with the power, and make it a permenant structure. I could pipe a muffler outside and vent the exhaust, install a remote start, and then just have an access door, and be on the wall I want.
Has anyone done anything like that before?
My house has 100a service. Granted, I don't use all of that, but I want a 10k generator, roughly 8k continuous. I'll get an electrician out to install the transfer switch. Problem is my garage is on the opposite side of the house as the electrical box. Don't care want to drag it through the snow to power the house, though, and don't want to run power to the opposite side of the house for that level of cables.
So I was thinking I could build a little house for it on the side of my house with the power, and make it a permenant structure. I could pipe a muffler outside and vent the exhaust, install a remote start, and then just have an access door, and be on the wall I want.
Has anyone done anything like that before?