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Couple goes green; building self-sufficient home
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Robert and Sandy Fuller of Sallisaw decided to go green when building their new home north of Sallisaw.
“Going green for one thing is better for the country and for another thing I won’t have any bills,” Robert Fuller said.
Fuller said he started working on the plans 10 years ago, researching the best way to build his home.
“I started construction about four months ago. I am doing most of the work myself but my son, Jason, helped me put the walls up,” Fuller said.
The 1,500-square-feet house has a living room, bedroom, one and half baths, kitchen and dining room, and a utility room.
“The bedroom will have a safe room made of steel which will be bolted to the floor,” Fuller said.
Fuller said he installed solar panels for power, a cistern for water, and a ground source heating and cooling system.
“The solar panels have provided me with all the electric to build this house. It is a 5,000 watt unit,” Fuller said.
“The cistern is a 7,000-gallon tank buried out back. I will catch the water off the roof in the guttering and run it through a sand and charcoal filter going in the tank and went it comes out of the pump it will be charcoal filtered again,” Fuller said.
“The ground source heating and cooling system will keep the house between 58 and 63 degrees all year round. All I will have to run is maybe a tiny heater. We will have an outside furnace on the back porch which will circulate the heat through the ducts into the house,” Fuller said.
Fuller also installed Low-E windows that have metal flakes in them to repel the heat in the summer and keep the heat in during the winter.
Fuller has been building houses for 44 years and built his first log home 21 years ago.
Fuller said he would have the house finished about a month and a half after they sell their home on Old Highway 17.
“Going green for one thing is better for the country and for another thing I won’t have any bills,” Robert Fuller said.
Fuller said he started working on the plans 10 years ago, researching the best way to build his home.
“I started construction about four months ago. I am doing most of the work myself but my son, Jason, helped me put the walls up,” Fuller said.
The 1,500-square-feet house has a living room, bedroom, one and half baths, kitchen and dining room, and a utility room.
“The bedroom will have a safe room made of steel which will be bolted to the floor,” Fuller said.
Fuller said he installed solar panels for power, a cistern for water, and a ground source heating and cooling system.
“The solar panels have provided me with all the electric to build this house. It is a 5,000 watt unit,” Fuller said.
“The cistern is a 7,000-gallon tank buried out back. I will catch the water off the roof in the guttering and run it through a sand and charcoal filter going in the tank and went it comes out of the pump it will be charcoal filtered again,” Fuller said.
“The ground source heating and cooling system will keep the house between 58 and 63 degrees all year round. All I will have to run is maybe a tiny heater. We will have an outside furnace on the back porch which will circulate the heat through the ducts into the house,” Fuller said.
Fuller also installed Low-E windows that have metal flakes in them to repel the heat in the summer and keep the heat in during the winter.
Fuller has been building houses for 44 years and built his first log home 21 years ago.
Fuller said he would have the house finished about a month and a half after they sell their home on Old Highway 17.
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If my house is suppose to be receiving 120 volts of electricity and instead it is receiving 123 volts, that is too many volts of electricity coming into my house. Thank you for informing all the good citizens of Sallisaw that the City of Sallisaw is forcing the citizens to use more electricity than what we should be using which cost the citizens of Sallisaw more on their electric bill. WHAT A SCAM.
I agree these people done a remarkable thing and it should be an example for others. The world as we know it is becoming more corrupt. Prophecies in revelation are being fulfilled more and more.
The governments of the world are becoming more evil as the days go by. If you show your independence like these good people have, then you won't have to succumb to their order. Always humble yourself and go with the Lord. You can do anything through Christ that strenthens you. May God bless you
This may be a little confusing but the bottom line is we are being SCAMMED by the City of Sallisaw by supplying our homes with more voltage than is necessary and it is costing the citizens a lot of extra dollars that the citizens should not be charged. All of my 120 outlets test anywhere from 125 volts to 130 volts.
HERE IS THE SCAM....
In general, the more Volts (amount of push and pull force on electrons in
wires) that is supplied to your electrical appliance through your wall
electrical outlet from your local utility electricity company, your
electrical appliance is force-fed more Amps. This is an interesting
situation.
In general, for every one extra Volt supplied by your utility electricity
company, your appliance will use a little more than two extra Watts of
electricity. Because your electricity company bills you according to how
many Watts your appliance uses, your electric company can force you to pay
it more money than necessary, and therefor it achieves more profit in
total dollars received.
For example, an appliance that needs only 110 Volts and 1 Amp uses a total
of 110 Watts (110 Volts multiplied by 1 Amp). But if your utility
electricity is supplying that same appliance with an extra 15 Volts of 125
Volts instead, then the appliance is force-fed 1.14 Amp, not 1 Amp, for a
total of 142.5 Watts (125 Volts x 1.14 Amp), which is an extra 32.5 Watts.
Thus, an extra 15 Volts results in your appliance using an extra 32.5
Watts, and you are billed for those extra 32.5 Watts, which is about 29%
higher than necessary.
That extra 29% Watts your appliance is forced to use, now creates an
artificial demand for more electricity. By the “Law of Supply and Demand”
in our capitalist society, your electricity company now has reason to
increase its cost per Watt of the electricity your appliance uses which
you must pay, resulting in an increased profit percentage for your
electricity company.
Your average personal computer is immune from this utility electricity
company robbery because of its advanced “Switching Mode Power Supply”
(SMPS). But most likely your monitor, printer, scanner, speakers
amplifier, fax machine, etc. are not.
You having to pay more money to your electricity company is bad enough,
but it gets worse. That extra 29% Watts causes your appliance to “slow
cook” to an early death, because its designer didn’t intend for it to use
that much extra electricity day after day.
It gets worse. Certain appliances, especially your air conditioner,
central air circulation fan, refrigerator, freezer, garbage disposal, dish
washer, trash compactor, and fan may when it turns off send electricity
back into your home’s electrical wires inside the walls. That extra 29%
Watts may become 58.5 back-Watts or more to damage your other appliances
that are on, necessitating their repair or replacement.