Lovelock Bound (Fernley, Fallon, Winnemucca: power lines, houses, contractor)

[Tressa]

As I've stated in other messages I plan to retire in Lovelock in late 2008, we plan to bring in a manufactored home we found one that we absolutely loved on a Fallon lot. Can anybody tell me the average cost for electricty for a 2500 square foot home, we do plan to have propane heat and a fireplace. Can anybody recommend a good Reliable contractor in the area, one that's not trying to gouge you?

We are so looking forward to the drastic change between Alaska and Nevada but we will always summer in Alaska as long as health allows.

[greatbasinguide]

good questions, the first part is, there may not be a local contractor, you may need someone to come from Fallon or Winnemucca or Fernley.

The only manufactured home make I have seen that makes a quality home is Fuqua.


Your dealer should provide a set up crew.

Your electric bill will run $200-300 per month since you have a well. Put a direct solar trickle pump in.

Your fireplace will cool the house, not heat it. Use a woodstove. Wood will be a problem. You will burn Pinion Pine and Juniper, tough to cut, sappy and messy, but smells real good when it burns.

Winter in Northern Nevada sucks,, cold bleak. The summer heat is a thing alive. My truck thermometer measured a temp of 127 a few miles north of Lovelock August before last.

[elfyum]

Originally Posted by greatbasinguide

Winter in Northern Nevada sucks,, cold bleak.

That just struck me as funny since you're talking to someone from ALASKA!!!

[greatbasinguide]

Yes, but when the pogonip sets in week after week. I'd take Alaska.

[Tressa]

[quote=greatbasinguide;315600]Yes, but when the pogonip sets in week after week. I'd take Alaska.[/QUOTE

the difference between the winters in Lovelock and the winters in Alaska is that in Alaska the winters last at least 6 months and in Lovelock the roads heads south.

[Tressa]

Originally Posted by greatbasinguide

Yes, but when the pogonip sets in week after week. I'd take Alaska.

Greatbasinguide you need to spend one winter in Alaska and experience our hoar-frost and then pogonip will feel like a vacation. Try walking outside and your tear drops freeze, put duc tape on your face to protect it from the cold. Go to work in the dark come home in the dark, deal with new comer's to the icy roads. Shoveling heavy snow off your roofs several times a month in sub zero weather. Pogonip sounds more appealing the more I think about it. November we were 15-20 below for the most of the month warmed up a bit the first part of December and then dropped right back down, last week it was in the high 40's right now it's 6 degrees so foggy you can't even see across the short parking lot. Alaska is absolutely beautiful in the Summer months which May - early July. I've been up here for 34 years it is time to relocate for the winter months.

[greatbasinguide]

Do you know what pogonip is? Scared the heck out of the Washoe.


Besides, in my area houses tend to have second floor exterior doors, that is what is used in the winter. At my house we often cut slots from the windows up through the snow to let light in, when we shovel the roof, we throw the snow up!

Our drive way is a luge run, steep, unstoppable, four inches thick in solid ice. when you start down you get to the bottom. When you start up, you better have 4x4 with studs, or you will get to the bottom, backwards.

Which is all better than the 10 mile commute by sno mo we did till the county decided to plow the road some years ago. Which leaves me only about a mile of road to keep open, I use a plow and loader to do so.

Hoar frost is composed of spicules of crystalline ice that grow out of the ground, generally in areas of moisture where the ground is warmer than the night air, not a particularly troublesome growth, except when new cold snow falls on it creating conditions for slab avalanche.

[Tressa]

[quote=greatbasinguide;338659]Do you know what pogonip is? Scared the heck out of the Washoe.


Besides, in my area houses tend to have second floor exterior doors, that is what is used in the winter. At my house we often cut slots from the windows up through the snow to let light in, when we shovel the roof, we throw the snow up!

Our drive way is a luge run, steep, unstoppable, four inches thick in solid ice. when you start down you get to the bottom. When you start up, you better have 4x4 with studs, or you will get to the bottom, backwards.

Which is all better than the 10 mile commute by sno mo we did till the county decided to plow the road some years ago. Which leaves me only about a mile of road to keep open, I use a plow and loader to do so.

Hoar frost is composed of spicules of crystalline ice that grow out of the ground, generally in areas of moisture where the ground is warmer than the night air, not a particularly troublesome growth, except when new cold snow falls on it creating conditions for slab avalanche.[/QUOTE

Well then I would ventrue to say that they call it pogonip in NV and hoar frost in AK, according to the descripton pogonip doesn't settle on the ground causing icy roads, hoar frost appears after a dense fog and be sure to watch the roads cuz you will have the ever so deadly black ice.

[Tressa]

Originally Posted by greatbasinguide

Do you know what pogonip is? Scared the heck out of the Washoe.


Besides, in my area houses tend to have second floor exterior doors, that is what is used in the winter. At my house we often cut slots from the windows up through the snow to let light in, when we shovel the roof, we throw the snow up!

Our drive way is a luge run, steep, unstoppable, four inches thick in solid ice. when you start down you get to the bottom. When you start up, you better have 4x4 with studs, or you will get to the bottom, backwards.

Which is all better than the 10 mile commute by sno mo we did till the county decided to plow the road some years ago. Which leaves me only about a mile of road to keep open, I use a plow and loader to do so.

Hoar frost is composed of spicules of crystalline ice that grow out of the ground, generally in areas of moisture where the ground is warmer than the night air, not a particularly troublesome growth, except when new cold snow falls on it creating conditions for slab avalanche.

Well I guess in NV they call it pogonip here in AK they call it hoar frost, from what I gather pogonip is said not to affect the roads but hoar-frost causes black ice on the road as well as thick frost on the power lines and trees. Too funny watching folks try to drive up our road to the hill side and have to back down and gather up speed again. Sounds like we live in similar winters except ours is much too long.

[greatbasinguide]

typically hoarfrost won't form on pavement, needs ground moisture. My guess is that it is misnamed.

Pogonip is supercooled fog, hangs in the air below 32 degrees and accretes to cars and other objects. The Washoe would not leave their wickiups during pogonip events, which can last for weeks.

In a normal winter we get snow from October to May. Last Easter Sunday we got three feet. Of course, I only live in the great basin, not Nevada.

As an incidental side note, Soda Springs, 15 miles west of our home is considered the most heavily snowed upon place on the planet inhabited by man.