Whole house standby generator

We did not have a single doubt about the need for a standby generator. Life on Snoqualmie's Indian Hill demonstrated the inevitability of power outages, sometimes for days to a week. And there was no question about whether our all-electric house here would be comfortable without one: no heat, no light, no water (hot or cold), no cooking, no opening the garage doors, etc.!) So, before the house modules were delivered we had ordered our Generac.

From the first electrical installation at the pump house, even before there was power to the house, we had our electrician install the transfer swith and the wiring for the generator.

The generator arrived as well before we had power to the house so it sat in the garage for months. It was very heavy and we assumed it could be carried the 20 feet to the pad by a crew of our contractors. However it wouldn't fit throug the person door. So one day when their excavator was onsite we hooked the generator and crate up and carried them out a garage door, around the pump house to the pad. At that point a generous crew of workers present that day moved it the last 10 feet to its pad.

As I indicated we were ahead of the game most of the time. It wasn't until after power had been connected to the house and our electrician could set up the generator that we finally heard the calming hum of electricity being generated.