We have gutters now! Yesterday I wasn't sure if any work would be done since the forecast was calling for rain in the afternoon, but around 8:00am a truck labeled "Gutters For Less" showed up and a friendly guy named Mike introduced himself. They asked me a few questions, like whether I wanted the new … Continue reading Gutter Mind →

At this very moment we're running purely on solar power! Before you get too excited, though, this is a temporary situation for now. Derrick and the PowerWall team came yesterday to do the hookup of the Ethernet cable for the Energy Gateway. In order to get that all set up they needed to bring the … Continue reading King for a Day →

The crew made quite a bit of progress on the roof yesterday. They did the ridge cap on the garage, so the garage is all done now except for the edge where it joins the house. Some of that is probably waiting on trim work and some is probably waiting on moving the octagonal window. … Continue reading Almost Done! →

There's a lot worth mentioning from yesterday, so I'm going to break it all up into three posts! As promised, Derrick and company ran a 12-foot Ethernet cable from the Energy Gateway to a powerline adapter on a wall outlet. I volunteered to do the indoor half of that myself, plugging in the corresponding powerline … Continue reading PSA: You need TWO Ethernet ports. →

Short update today -- I thought the guys might not come out since it was scheduled to rain but Derrick texted me and said they were going to give it a try. Unfortunately once they got here it started raining so they headed home after just a couple hours. While they were here, though, they … Continue reading Back Door Overhang →

Sorry for not updating yesterday! On Monday they started putting down solar tiles on the last main portion of the roof, the back of the garage. They continued that yesterday and now they're about halfway done with it, as you can see in the photo to the left. The reason the "per day" progress on … Continue reading In the Homestretch? →

First off,the back of the main house has all its solar tiles! Well, technically there's a little piecing they still need to do but it's looking great! Oh, before I go further, a PSA: If you get a solar roof, prepare to find a LOT of asphalt bits all over the place in your attic! … Continue reading Walking the Wire →

The guys did a bunch of interesting work in the attics yesterday but they're not done yet and I want to wait until things are finalized to post my photos of how all that works. I started to write it all up and then realized I was making some assumptions about what I was looking … Continue reading Attic Work Continues →

I went in to work for a meeting yesterday, and when I came back at first I was puzzled as to what the crew had actually done. Then as I walked around I found it -- they did the part of the garage roof that doesn't go over our family room. I should explain. If … Continue reading Crouching Solar, Hidden Tiles →