Solar and Water

The last solar panels are finally installed!!! It’s nice to cross something off the list as this one has been hanging on for a while due to missing some brackets and mounting nuts. One mistake was my miscalculations after adding some more panels to the design and the other was the shipper forgot some parts on the order. After all that, we ran out of wire. That’s all behind us now as they have all been installed and wired on the roof.

Completed solar panel install

The past few days we’ve also seen our water pump get installed and configured as well as the water mains in the house get turned on and tested. We did find a small leak and will have to replace a small part, but not a big deal. Here is a video of the water being pumped to our storage for the first time.

We have WATER!!!

Our plumbers were able to meet all of our requirements: Spin down filter, carbon filter, filter bypass valves, pressure gauge, thermostatic mixing valve, temperature gauge …AND a recirculating pump in the house due to the long-distance hot water run. Yeah, that’s a lot of stuff, so that helps explain some of the chaos in the pictures.

Water closet in the house
C-wing water configuration…missing temp and pressure valve

Don’t worry about the electrical wiring above, that will be put into conduit before we run any electricity through it. I just wanted to get wire length cut to finish that task as I didn’t have conduit at that time. Complete design to follow soon.

Until next time.

So much paint

We (mostly Stephanie) has been painting like crazy. Priming and ceiling paint are both done and now the focus turns to the walls. It’s nice to see some color on the walls as everything has been white for a couple weeks. Here are the updates recently.

  • Soffit and fascia on house, complete
  • Water pump installed…YEAH!!!
  • Coats of paint being applied to the upstairs
Beautiful soffits and fascia

The water pump was a bit tricky, but it’s installed. The sun was going down just as we were getting things hooked up, so no solar power to get it up and running yesterday. We will try to finalize things today and get some water up to our storage today.

Cistern riser with cover off…pump is at the bottom of the white pipe

As you see above, we have a full tank and can’t wait to get it moved to storage. I’ll update on how that goes.

Stephanie putting second coat in the boys room

That’s it for now.