For your consideration: The Easy Way To Install A Standby Generator.

You can buy a device that will power 7 kilowatt or more worth of electronic stuff in your house automatically running off natural gas or liquid propane. This device is called a standby generator. Look it up.

Anyway, you can buy one of these things and spend the same amount of money on the generator that you do for someone like me to install it for you or:

I know. I know. You’re thinking, “What the hell are you talking about now MoneyKing?”

What I’m talking about is either a) you getting some skills, or b) you using the skills you have to save some money.

In the grand scheme of things, a standby generator really isn’t that much more money than a regular gasoline generator. The problem is the installation—like most things.

There are two parts to installing a standby generator that make the whole project easier to swallow: 1) the gas, and 2) the electric.

The electricity is probably a little more complicated than the gas installation, so I recommend tackling this part first by finding a couple of 30 amp breakers on your master panel and then hooking up your generator panel to them. From here, you have to remove the wires from the master panel that power the stuff you want the generator to power over to the generator panel. MAKE SURE YOU MATCH UP YOUR AMPS. From here, you’re really done with the electrical work—besides mounting a box on your house and running the connection from the generator to the generator panel.

After your electricity is set up, then you gotta run a gas line. You can run a ½ inch line to the generator, but we recommend running ¾ inch with a reducer about 2 feet away from the generator itself. You want as much volume as possible going to the generator. With a few basic hookups and Ts and maybe a union or two, you’ve got your gas running to the generator.

At this point, you follow the directions on how to get the thing started and you’re done! It’ll take you about 6 hours to install the whole thing.

It EZ!

Good luck out there.

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