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I should say, include the cost of generator servicing and spare parts in your budget.
About the same cost as a car service but more frequent, a especially if you are using it 24 hours a day. if it was me I would switch it off at night.0 -
I_have_spoken wrote: »Think I've found the place on RM...
No it's not that one! Haha0 -
I would want to have a coal or wood burning stove in a house like this so that you are guaranteed some form of heating that does not need electricity to work. Being snowed in somewhere remote with no heating would not be fun.
As has been said boreholes can only pump water if the electric pump works. Some of these pump water into a cistern so that you have a quantity stored if the electric supply fails. Of course with your solid fuel boiler you also have the option of melting snow!0 -
I would want to have a coal or wood burning stove in a house like this so that you are guaranteed some form of heating that does not need electricity to work. Being snowed in somewhere remote with no heating would not be fun.
As has been said boreholes can only pump water if the electric pump works. Some of these pump water into a cistern so that you have a quantity stored if the electric supply fails. Of course with your solid fuel boiler you also have the option of melting snow!
Our home with the generator has a water collection cistern but you still need the electric pump to be working to pump water from the cistern into the taps!
It is interesting how much you do need power for, it is a good learning experience to live with power for only a few hours a day but not one I would want for a long period.0 -
Electricity is not the only means of power available,
modern generators can run a small home without issues for many hours and last many years , convertor and batteries (can be charged at garages or a friends house ) will give you enough light for many hours and I have run a protable tv off the convertor
granted you have to change your mind set but to live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours I would definitely do it again, but I do think you have to consider your age , for us 20 years down the line we are having to move to a more conventional way of living ,0
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