Tesla Solar Roof - 33-year-old Connecticut home successfully renovated & electrified. No more gas!
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In 2022, my wife and I decided to downsize to a nearby house that was built by the same La Cava Construction that crafted thousands of simple, sturdy homes in Connecticut. We had set a goal to find an efficient "forever home" with fixed monthly costs. Choosing this modest 1,856 sq. ft. one story house in Wethersfield Connecticut worked out well for us, but it wasn't easy.
One story houses feature bigger roofs. Our chosen home has no trees, with lots of west southwest roof surfaces. This made it solar viable for us, and it needed a new roof. So we went for a Tesla Solar Roof, featuring:
27.6 kW of solar
4 Powerwall 2 batteries
3 Tesla Solar Inverters
1 Tesla Backup Gateway 2
These photos and drone (quadcopter) shots were all taken between July of 2022 and October of 2023.
The 2023 Federal Tax Credit for Solar means we'll be getting 30% off this roof+solar project since it's considered an efficiency-improvement project. We also had incentives for our insulation upgrades, triple-pane windows and heat pump based HVAC and water heating systems. We went with MERV13 filtration just in time for terrible Canadian wildfire smoke, and we're working on year-round humidity control too.
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Special thanks to Wethersfield neighbor Robert Brickley from Close Jensen & Miller, for capturing the drone (quadcopter) footage and photos.
Music Credit - "Cosmic Groove"by Cooper Cannell - YouTube Audio Library
