Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

I have a pretty big Generac generator. My mom and sister had a lot of medical equipment like chair lifts and such. So we needed it if the power went out. It is something like 18000 or 24000 btu...not really sure and it's too dark out now to go look. But it covers about half the house.

Goes on every Wednesday morning for ten minutes to make sure it's functioning. I get it serviced every six months (around $150). The cost for the thing was somewhere around 14-16K if I recall. It's about ten years old now. It gets used about 2-3 times a year. Longest it was on was 3 days. I needed to build a foundation for it because it is so heavy.

During blackouts I would go out back and hear it and only one other house up the street had one going. I bet the neighbors hated us. LOL