Thanks for the replies after my last post!
I need all the info I can get from people who have them, and also the EcoFlow type of machines, which unfortunately do not provide any furnace benefit like a whole-house generator would provide.
The most I could do with those smaller units is to plug my 3 Dyson fan/heater in to.- a vertical oval topped -I would need to use two of my three; one for each bedroom and possibly the third in the kitchen. I don't know how many amps they pull, or when they're being used, maybe nothing else can be plugged in to them?
A whole house certainly seems like the answer, however, I'm not sure about the funds.
What Professional would be the best to call that could tell me the appropriate watts needed to run the furnace and AC, a few things in two bedrooms; tv's, chargers, ipads, etc., and the least amount of kitchen appliances- a microwave, fridge.
I wouldn't worry about our living room, which is on the main floor with the kitchen. Nor worry about the third bedroom, which is on the top floor with the other bedrooms nor the family room, which is five stairs down from the kitchen level.
the laundry room is on that level, it'd be nice to run the washer and dryer, but it's not a necessity.
We have a basement that's about five steps down from the family room level. HVAC appliances: gas furnace, AC, and gas water heater are there. Is there any reason to have heat in the basement?
@mambee wrote,
"know people who have whole-house Generacs and they really like them but some have had issues where they conk out after a few years.
In ONE of 4 Costco reviews, one person said;
"Our Generac 22KW died a few months after the warrantee expired. The engine was toast die when the fatigued push rods shattered. The rods have about 1” of carbide joined to several inches of softer metal. Predictably the rods fatigue at the joint spewing metal throughout the engine destroying it. If your Generac is still running you’d be wive to replace the push rods every year or so. We are not replacing it with another Generac."
So I wonder if the model from Costco for $6300 isn't very good? Maybe it's not completely authentically all Generac materials or their top quality of materials that you would get if you purchased from them?
Is there a better brand than Generac? If not, is there a better store, company, to purchase a Generac or another brand that's great, with a better warranty, knowledgeable people to service it, proper installation, and maintenance you trust?
When Costco sells major brands, whether it's mattresses, or whole house, generators, kitchen appliances, etc., and I found out all about mattresses, sometimes unless it's the exact model, exact materials, manufactured and built by that brand's company, exact everything from top to bottom, or if they've collaborated with Costco, agreed to let Costco use the brand's name and create a very similar model, but not the same, Costco can give it a different model number by adding an extra letter or number at the end or calling it the same name, but with a another word in the title.
When that happens, it's not made the same way; they can alter the quality of the material, for instance, when Saatva first brought one of their mattresses to QVC, Costco also had it for the first time, the name was a little different and the height of it was an extra half an inch from what QVC had and what Saatva had, and the top covering was a little different in pattern.
I spent days researching, talking to Saatva's upper tier person, she told me, whatever you purchased from Costco unless Costco listed the same model with all the exact numbers and letters and there wasn't an extra word in the title then you should check all the codes on the tags or the labels on your product and you will see it's probably manufactured by a different company, a third-party.
I told her Costco, BJ's, Sam's, wherever, can't possibly make money selling a brand-name, exact model of whatever, and sell it for less than the company or other places do. They have to cut corners somewhere.
That they do this because the number one reason is they must not use the same quality materials that Saatva or other brands use, etc., they can't reproduce the same way by using the same gauge of steel, quality steel, the same poundage of foam, the same foam, the thickness of the material, etc. I'm not saying it's only Saatva, all mattresses Costco sells when they partner with brand names, those particular items are usually not the same models, unless of course, they are the same model number. Some brands may absolutely allow their exact models to be sold at Costco, and that might be the case with other items, TVs, and kitchen appliances, etc.
Now, Costco, when I called asking if it was built the same, materials, labor, etc., some of their representatives said yes, I asked how they knew, could they point me to information on their website, could they give me the phone number of someone who could verify, which they couldn't, and some said they had no idea. That's when I decided to call Saatva.
I always call the manufacturer. I asked to be put through to a higher-level supervisor who knows these answers.
It's a pain for me. It's often a pain for the people I speak with. I'll have to start investigating this Generac; call Generac and Costco, unless anyone knows Generac has partnered with Costco to create this model, but does not use the quality parts Generac uses.
Or if there's another brand that provides excellent service, whatever's needed, yearly visits, tuneups, etc., and has a really great warranty, or if none of them have great warranties, perhaps there's insurance I could purchase?
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