Heating

Heating is via a small, generic wood stove. We also have a radiant tube system (pex) in the floor that operates via the solar thermal collectors and the domestic water heater (standard propane tank). We expect to replace that water heater with a point of use unit at some point. A 100 gallon Steibel/Eltron storage tank holds several days of solar heated water and enables us to shut off our propane back up heater from May thru October. Additionally, we plan to install electric elements in the storage tank to take advantage of our excess energy generated by the Bergey wind generator. This will reduce propane usage to only that used by our 1931 Kalamazoo Peerless combination cook range.