SOLAR people, HELP!!!

Most likley a change to local zoning. You may find that you can get get a permit of residance without those items in place as well. You can often file for a variance for a composting toliet, but I doubt you will get it with a simple sawdust toliet, you might get it with some of the more complex composting toliets but you will need to meet with zoning/county boards and take lots of information for them. Its easier for them to say no than to listen to you.

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Gary in Central Ohio

We built our first home off-grid without power tools. Borrowed a generator and skill saw but only used it a few times as it was noisy and a nuisance to start. I have lots of good old sharp hand saws. We build the house with local rough sawn lumber, so we had to cut both ends of every piece of wood that went into the house, all by hand. (we used the power saw to cut plywood while doing the roof, and decided that a SHARP handsaw, not a new junk saw, did a better job). I will admit that a cordless electric drill is great for driving screws, but it can be recharged from a auto cigarette lighter with the right charger. We then had an old 1920s vintage Delco light plant to charge our 32 volt DC batteries until we got our first wind generator installed, and then in 1981 put in our first solar electric (PV) panels, which we are still using at a different house.

Jim, using wind and solar generated electricity since 1977