Solar power

Gordon Schies from Alteris Renewables called me today. He was the presenter at the solar seminar that Teri and I went to.  He and I are going to go on-site to test the suitability of installing solar panels on our location tomorrow.

Here is his company's website: Alteris Renewables

The website claims that they are the largest installer of solar solutions in New England.  Frankly, the only thing that I didn't like about his almost two hour presentation was that he talked about installing the panels as a patriotic duty to lessen our dependance on foreign resources.  I guess that is a reason, but he seemed to come back to that point a number of times....

Secondly, our plans came in!  WOO HOO-   Teri and I can't seem to stop looking at them.  We are so pleased with them.  We are going to have some slight modifications to them, two that I'm aware of. 

1. I suspect that we are going to go to a full slab on grade, instead of the 1/2 slab, 1/2 crawlspace model currently planned and,
2. moving garage from the NW corner of the house to the SW corner of the house.

Tomorrow I hope to find out "true north" to better understand the orientation of the house.  In the accompanying details in the blue prints the architect suggests that the house be oriented no more than 10 degrees off  south.

Thanks for reading.