Quote Originally Posted by Big Muddy View Post
Speaking of power outages, has anyone thought about whole-home generators???.....out here in the boondocks, we lose power quite frequently, sometimes for many hours, and sometimes several days, during ice storms or tornadoes.....we are really looking hard at making the investment.....
Kohler has a free transfer switch promotion($850 value)available on the purchase of their 26KW unit.
I have a 24Kw with a transfer switch. It's really nice when the power goes out and runs everything. I sign up for a maintenance / monitoring plan since we're not at the house half the year, but I think maintenance yourself would be fairly easy. One thing I was told is to check the oil if they run very often, the tend to use oil pretty bad.