Pictures as promised

This is the wood stove, and the very first fire I ever lit inside. This stove all on it's own can heat the entire house in -20C weather. It does require a lot of wood, but thankfully, wood is free! Propane costs $0.69/litre, and the furnace can use up to 20litres per day, plus the 1200watts of electricity per hour! Guess which one we'll be using more often.




Outback inverter, providing a continuous 2500 watts of pure Sine Wave, and upwards of 8000 watts of surge capacity. I wired the electrical system entirely on my own. That green cord you see goes to the generator, and feeds AC electricity back to the batteries for charging them.

The hearth that the stove sits on, built by me. It's composed of 4 layers of cement board (Durock), cemented with thinset mastic and screwed together with a tile overlay. That give 2.5 inches of thickness, and R1.25 to prevent any heat transfer to the floorboards underneath. I have since cracked one of the tiles by hatcheting a piece of wood into pieces. Hatchets belong outdoors.

The house immediately after the moving company placed it. It now has two water tanks in front of it.

Eight L460 Surrette flooded Deep Cycle batteries wired into a 24volt configuration. The box is OSB, and is vented to the outside with a fan for air exchange. These batteries weigh 117lbs each, and cost almost $400 apiece.