Compost bin

Here's a pic of the compost bin we made

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Good job babe!

Kudos to my beautiful wife.  Curving in on TED from denver, I've noticed she is averaging less thsn 20 kwh for daily power usage with a low of 15!  

When my family was in town for the ncaa tournament we averaged about 50 kwh...but that was with 6 people in the house plus with two tvs on for 8-12 hrs.

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Driveway complete!

Looks great!  Can't wait to try it out...

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Almost there

Inspection complete!  All good.

Customer package info...check!

(includes tax credit info)

Driveway guy is forming up today.

Tomorrow, they put concrete.

So, by monday, everything should be 100% finished.

Only thing left is for the grass to grow in the front yard....and I have to step side and let mother nature do that for me.

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Upstairs system online!

Yeah!  The hvac guys are done and the system is online.  there's a little bit of catching up to do, now.  also the front drill spoils need to be cleaned up but after that everything will be done.  Then we can do the driveway.  pictures soon to follow...

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Look ma, no heat pumps

A pic of my "reclaimed" garden

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Lake johnson

Its getting full...  Luckily, the drillers are done

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Drill

Here's a pic of the drill rig.  You can see the 3 completed wells with the pipes sticking out.  One more to go..which will be completed on monday.  Hopefully the entire project will be complete as I'm in missouri and my wife is away too.

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Pic

Here's a pic of the attic duct work before it goes up to the attic to be installed.

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One step closer

We got approval from the HOA for the driveway (no approval needed for hvac).  Now, it's time for scheduling....

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Helping hand

Just spent 8 hrs yesterday helping my friend, Nate,  work on his house.  He got an energy audit too and found his house very leaky.  I seriously do not want to smell silicone (caulking) for a while. 

Except now I feel like I need to tackle some of those small things myself.  Liking back at my audit, there were two rooms that had some small leakage.   Maybe I'll tackle those tonight...

Fyi, I got myself an attic tent out off it.  He had one on his attic, but it was not installed because it didn't fit.  So I'll install that in mine...

Finally I got a second quote in for geothermal hvac.  This one was 45k...or 25% higher than my original quote.  Not surprising I started my return email with "i regret to inform you..."

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Doing great...

From TED, our usage has decreased significantly.  Sunday thru thursday we've used the following:

Sun 61 kWh

Mon 72 kWh

Tues 75 kWh

Wed 36 kWh!

Thur 52 kWh

If you consider the previous 8 days were at 100 kWh our more, this is great.

The results are a combo of more attic insulation and using the gas log in the AM and PM to get the temp up in lieu of the crappy heat pump electric heat.

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Electric bill

Just got our electric bill for last month (before TED)...all I can say is holy f@#&$ sh@#!!!!  It was $253.   That's just ridiculous.  It averaged 95 kwh over 30 days.  This month probably isn't going to be much better.  All the more reason to go geothermal...

All done

It took about 3.5 hrs,  but the work is complete.  Now I wait for the results...

Before and after

Here's a quick pic as we work of before and after with the insulation