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Originally Posted by Dink
What'd you pay RAY?
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I paid $4000 for the generator, delivered to my house. Plus about another $1000 for the wire, conduit, main disconnect box(my house didn't have one outside), and slab that I poured myself.
I also didn't have natural gas, so had that run to my house. Center Point ran it for free, but they required me to have a gas water heater to get it for free.
I also installed a gas furnace, my elect. furnace was 15KW, so that would have made me buy a bigger generator.
Water heater and furnace cost me about $1600. I got them at wholesale price and installed myself.
Plus I spent about $900 on plumbing. Had to run 1" galvanized from meter up into attic and across house to tie in furnace and water heater.
City plumbing and electrical inspectors came out to check on everything before I could get meters hooked up. I ran on generator power for a whole day while waiting.
Shawn Braquet's dad is a licensed electrician. He came over and checked out my work before I called the inspector to come check it out. I also have a friend who is a plumber, he came checked out my gas and water piping and gas vents to make sure it passed before calling plumbing inspector.
I got more generator than I need cause I was able to get it for less than the 17KW generator and I wanted whole house ATS instead of partial house ATS. I was able to run every single thing in my house, including all 4 stove burners and oven at same time. When I turned on the dryer, it it bogged down. Maxed it out.
My family lives in Cameron and Creole. When a hurricane comes, I have a house full.