I use my TH year round for work so I need a wall between the garage and living area. I don't want to heat up the whole thing in the middle of winter if I don't need to.
I have a Gen and I need it to run a A/C and microwave as well as the 110 but I'd love to have solar panels and a good controller. It's painful to start a gen to charge the batteries. Talk about overkill and inefficient as well as noisy and my honda is pretty quiet for a gen. I am going to get a stovetop percolator coffee maker so I don't need to start the gen early in the morning to have coffee. I haven't found I really need an inverter. Yet.
It seems like here in CO most people don't use their awnings for fear of wind.
I rigged my ramp/ tailgate with straps so it is a level porch. My wife and I spend a lot of our down time sitting on this watching our kids. It's nice to be off the ground like a deck on a house.
We bought a propane fire pit at costco and use it for almost all our cooking not to mention hanging out around seeing as how there is usually a fire ban here in CO. We can even use it on the ramp/porch.
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