Troy & Melanie Hard At Work On The Homestead

This was our first full day of work together at the off grid homestead. We had returned from our honeymoon on the weekend and then spent Monday out with a friend.Show more

Tuesday morning we got right to work on the off grid property.

Melanie spent her time inside the tiny house on wheels putting things just the way she wants them. She also spent a lot of time moving my clothes out of the closet and putting hers in.

I worked outside all day. First today was laundry day. I got a Whirlpool washing machine from a friend and spent some time connecting it to my tiny house plumbing.

First I had to get it into place on a pallet outside the tiny house water and battery shed. I will later put an overhang out there to protect the washing machine from the elements.

I tied it into the PEX lines which are pressurized by an RV water pump. I wanted to use some dollar store fittings but it seems that they must be low pressure because they leak like crazy.

I pulled all that stuff off and just went without.

I got the water running to the washing machine and then fired up the generator to try it out.

I started with just a small load of laundry at first to test out the machine and make sure it even works. My friend said the people he got it from told him it did work but you never know.

I poured water in by hand though to spare the tiny house water supply. I do not yet have pipe fittings for the large 275 gallon water tanks so I am using a small 10 gallon water tank for the tiny house for now. There is a larger 20 gallon tank outside the water shed which gets filled up by rain water and I siphon the water from that tank to fill the smaller tank as needed. This has worked nicely so far for us.

The washing machine cycled through all the settings and the spin cycle nearly got the clothes dry it worked so well.

I hung the clothes out to dry and started another load, filling the machine up this time. I ran it through to the rinse cycle and then shut it off for the night because we were supposed to get a freeze at night and I did not want to harm out clothes out on the line. I will finish the rinse cycle in the morning and hang the clothes out to dry.

The washing machine is working nicely.

This sure beats washing laundry by hand.

With Melanie and myself we have too many clothes to wash by hand and it is getting to be too much to use the bucket method sometimes. You just cannot wash a blanket in the bucket anyway.

The laundromat cost us about $20 last time so that is not an option. I would rather run a generator for 20 minutes a few times per month to wash clothes than to put out $20-40 a month at the laundromat.

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