Is it hot in your attic? Why not run a bunch of pipe up there to soak in the heat all day? When you take a shower the hot water heater inlet can be connected to the pipes in the attic and you can refill the hot water heater with 100F water instead of 50F water.

if you use 2" PVC pipe, be sure to slope the lines in such a way they will drain completely in winter. hint: 250' of 2" PVC will give you 40 gallons of warm water.

This week is "clean up and organize the workshop". We sold our house 2 years ago, moved here and built the shop. We haven't stopped long enough to organize anything. I've got fence parts in three places (basement, barn and workshop) for example. Consolidation and organization is my thing this week.

If I think of something off griddy I'll post, but there won't be an "off grid" project this week.

Cleaning up in shop. My first bus bar before I knew better.

My 3 layer wood working screw tool box

Top drawer out

Second drawer out

The box has a simple old elec cable drilled and a knot inside the box and swivel castors on the bottom
I pull it to where i am working and voila'
No walking up and down

Its about 25 years old. Great thing is you not carrying screws up n down in tins and having to put them back.
Its also easy to do inventory and see what you need at anytime.

I have different "stock box" tool boxes for various things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPYkqpe-Ms

This guy is the real deal. Back 6 or 7 years ago, he bought a crashed tesla battery and used it to replace his old lead acid batteries.

Family
@survival4u

World's most expensive strawberries

Waking up with 68% battery since sundown last night. Here's energy generation (dk blue), export(lt blue) and usage for HVAC(purple) and my car(orange) yesterday. Note that export takes off sharply after 1pm... that's when the batteries got full from the previous night and 100% of my system was dedicated to export.

One of our group member's setups....

Hi guys,
Just thought id share my solar setup as i saw a few chatting about it , ive been off grid 14 years ,
I love this battery box,
Custom made to how i wanted , 100ah lithium,
All heavy duty wiring inside,
3 anderson ports for fridge , 2 x 180 solar panels with built in regulator,
Then 3, 12v ports on front where i plug in 600w inverter , and also an additional usb port,
It does everything i need , lights , charge accessories, fridge, run small appliances,
Nice and compact if you hit the road too

How to deal with gassy baby....