[stayathomemom]

I thought for sure you were posting from SE Michigan. We are in the midst of the largest weather related power outage in DTE's history. Almost 700,000 customers were with out power do to sustained winds of over 35mph over a 12 hour period and gusts to 65mph. Lots of trees down.
Anyone I've run into who has a whole house generator says it's been a great decision on their part. I have a large generator which plugs into an outlet in the garage and then a circuit box in the basement to transfer on necessary circuits to the generator. I think I'm using about .5gal of gas/hour? Not sure though. It's noisy, but I have heat. Many don't and we are expecting lows in the teens for the next few days.

[Prov1322]

I have a large generator which plugs into an outlet in the garage and then a circuit box in the basement to transfer on necessary circuits to the generator.

Do you remember where you got the plans for this layout from? I'd like to go with a whole house unit at some point but right now an external setup like this sounds good. Thanks! FReepers are the best!