Description: How to Build the Perfect Off-Grid HomeIf you're looking at this book, you probably already have off-grid aspirations. So how can you solidify those abstract ideas into concrete form? In How to Build the Perfect Off-Grid Home, Roxyanne Spanfelner, who built a remote off-grid home four years ago, offers practical advice to navigate the often complex and perplexing process. Before you dismiss this book because you think it is only for those who wish (and can afford) to build a new home from scratch with all the newest technology, please don't be misled. While it does deliver a detailed, ground-up, start-to-finish guide for the new generation of off-gridders, it has something for everyone. If you're not quite ready to cut the power cords, you'll find a vast range of highly energy-efficient options to make retrofitting your existing home easier and more affordable. Inside these pages, you'll find out how to: Determine whether it is better for you to go gridless or modify your energy grid-based system Design a floor plan utilizing the best passive and active energy options Find the right contractors to oversee your project Select the right building materials, appliances, and lighting to maximize energy savings Assess the pros and cons of wind and energy alternative-power systems Create and operate your own "private utility company" for power generation, water collection, and waste disposal Set up a reliable and affordable maintenance schedule Spanfelner explains why building off grid was the right choice for her family, as it has been for about a million others across America. Maybe it is for you too. This book shows you how to declare your independence from the utility companies, reduce your carbon footprint, and reap the financial and psychological rewards of a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Roxyann Spanfelner got her education in off-grid construction the old-fashioned way: she earned it when she and her husband, Gary, chose to build a new home in a remote location. Before she began writing this book, she would wake up in the middle of the night thinking about their off-grid experience and how others could in some way learn and benefit from it. It was not as though she wanted to write a book about it, but she felt so strongly compelled that she had to begin. When she started, she did so in secret, not telling anyone—even her husband—until after she had hand-written a detailed outline and also a comprehensive draft of Chapter I. It was only after she had purchased a laptop, and her husband found a way to ensure Internet access at their remote location, that she shared her thoughts with him, who was behind her all the way. Even up until the publication of How to Build the Perfect Off-Grid Home, only a few people knew. Now the cat is out of the bag! Spanfelner is currently renovating her recently acquired historic cabin deep in the woods that is off-grid too. BOOK CHAPTER LIST 1) Taking the Leap 2) Designing Our Home and Choosing Our Contractors 3) Construction: Beginning to End 4) Choosing Appliances and Lighting 5) The Pros and Cons of Solar and Wind 6) Specifics of Our Alternative-Power System 7) Traveling on Down the Road: Maintenance Guidelines 8) How to Maintain a Sunny Outlook Off-Grid Softcover 978-1-61004-880-4 194 pages, 8.5" x 11" photos, illust.
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