Mary's house sits in the pines. Beautiful place to live. Also the kind of place where the power goes out because a tree somewhere upslope had a bad day, and nobody can tell you when it's coming back. She wanted a generator that handles the whole house, not just a few circuits. Elio and Trent [...]
There's a short window on every new house where you can see everything. The framing (the wooden skeleton of the house) is up, the roof is on, and the walls are still wide open. Every wire, pipe, and duct is right there in plain sight. Then the insulation and drywall go in, and that's [...]
If you drive past a solar job at the end of the day, you see panels on a roof. That's about ten percent of the work. The other ninety percent is the stuff nobody photographs — sealing the roof, mounting the rails, running the pipe, wiring it all together, and hanging the batteries. That's where [...]
When a solar system quits, the first thing a homeowner looks at is the roof. That's where the panels are, so that's where the problem must be. It usually isn't. Bryan called us because his Enphase system had stopped generating. Production was inconsistent and then it went to zero. The panels were fine. So [...]
Most people buy a portable generator right after an outage. The power goes out for three days, the food in the fridge goes bad, and the next week there's a generator in the garage. Then the following winter, the power goes out again and they're running extension cords through a window to keep one [...]