10 Things WRONG With My Tesla Solar Roof

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Chapter:
0:00 Intro
0:30 #10 - Peak Performance
1:33 #9 - Fire Hazard
2:32 #8 - Bad Service
3:50 #7 - Too Expensive
4:40 #6 - Environmental Hazard
6:02 #5 - Can't Withstand Hail or Hurricanes
7:03 #4 - Crew Kicking the Tiles
8:00 Sponsor - HOW TO DRAW ANYTHING
9:11 #3 - Roof is warped
10:03 #2 - Collecting Rainwater is illegal
10:57 #1 - Front Yard is S!@#$!
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Hey, I'm Sven from This Guy Edits, a YT channel with over 400K subs. I've recently become a Tesla fanboy and want to document my experience with the Tesla Solar Glass Roof as it is being installed on my house.
It's been years in the making and this version three roof is supposed to be finally ready for prime-time. Generally, I try not to be an early adopter, and would rather like to see proof of concept first. But since the Federal Tax Credit is about to run out, I decided to take the plunge now and see if it works out.
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[@ThisGuysTesla]

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[@thesilentone4024]

Can you give sorce a try i hear you get decent humidity and this will save you water and its solar. Ps the ppm in the water on average from these are 10 to 70 ppm and 2 normal ones will make 120 gallons a week I think if humidity is low if high its 320 a week. Its been 2 years so research it if your interested it my be way better then I'm telling you.

[@gregocull1690]

Hi Sven, I really love.your work buddy. I'm currently in Melbourne Australia and I'm very interested in installing Tesla tiles. Do you have an email address to further correspond?

[@georgemoore7196]

LOL. As a native Californian, I highly commend you for installing a California native rain garden! It looks great too!

[@ThisGuysTesla]

Thanks 👍

[@keenmate9719]

That utterly dull, mundane green field that you find in front of like 99% of american houses is a perfect representation of how unimaginative, sterile and constrained the USA really are. In Czech republic there is no garden same, every house has it different at least in some way, I think some would actually find it offensive to being copied when someone else would have the same garden. It's a matter of prestige to have a great garden, it's a matter of individuality to have it at least different. And if you don't believe me, go pick 10 random places in villages in USA and in Czech republic

[@ericwilliams1659]

@@keenmate9719 I am going to guess you have not visited alot of different places in the US. Some states yard's don't even have grass (South West) therefore are not and can not be "green"

[@keenmate9719]

@@ericwilliams1659 you mean at some southern places? Like New Mexico or Arizona? Or some places in Los Angeles where there are iron bars even around trees?

[@ericwilliams1659]

@@keenmate9719 ?? More cities than just LA have "bars" or fencing around trees. There are many different reasons for this.

[@cosmicosmofour6883]

The rainwater collection restrictions in Texas are misinterpreted by that website you're looking at. If you are a homeowner and are building a rain barrel system that will not be attached to the utility water supply, there are no restrictions whatsoever.

[@VolodymyrPavlyuk]

Your garden is amazing and it looks like an oasis in the middle of a grass and concrete desert

[@joncepet]

Yes. It is not "boring" imo. Definately better than stereotypical front yard with lawn

[@Dpaq13]

agreed, it's not surprising at the least

[@plainlake]

Anyone with some insight into ecology know that lawns are more or less "green deserts". Which is really somewhat disrespectful towards deserts, that can have quite a rich biodiversity.

[@jeremyO9F911O2]

As a roofer, can confirm we kick things all the time during install. It's much more ergonomic for the worker and can deliver a more consistent delivery of force distributed over a larger area. Also we are very good and accurate at it too, respect the professionals. Note: I'm not a Tesla roof or roof tile installer, but roofing is roofing and the dynamics don't really change system to system.

[@Supreme_Lobster]

Do you know how hard it would be to become a Tesla certified roof installer?

[@Nevir202]

Yea, funny that people think that a glass tile made to take a blow from an ice brick falling from the sky, is going to be damaged by what amounts to a soft blow, rubber hammer which is your boot.

[@jeremyO9F911O2]

@@Nevir202 people get weird about glass, they scared of it. And it's not like Tesla roofs don't have warranty.

[@jeremyO9F911O2]

@@Supreme_Lobster is that a rhetorical question? I think right now Tesla either wants their own installers or limited partner installers. Not sure if it's full on "they call you" type scenario. But I don't think they are trying to make a competitive market certified installers. More like they sell the roof and they hire the roofer.

[@zechsblack5891]

I did floor installation for a while. It's all kicks there too. You get a much more smooth application of force, particularly in the lateral direction if you are trying to make adjacent units flush.

[@flain283]

The numbers here are really crazy for me, for someone who lives in Australia. I paid $12,400 AUD ($8,700 USD) for a 15.4kW solar install on my roof. I paid this about 3 years ago. My system is currently generating about 90kWh a day as it's still sunny here in AU - highest output was 108kWh in a day. This changes throughout the year but in winter - about 50kWh on average per day. It's peak output - IS the peak - 15kW.. only happens for probably 30 minutes if I'm lucky on a good day. If i were to pay $50k USD - i could have solar panels on a frame in the backyard and generate over 500kWh per day - that's INSANE. I love Telsa and what they are trying to do - but lets be honest here! You're paying for battery and looks!

[@livinlicious]

Wow thats an amazing return on investment. I dont know your electricity prices, we are at 0,25€/kwh here in middle europe. Yours has paid back in energy generation on that number after 1 year almost! That would blow my fucking mind. Our average rates here are at least 8 years. (7600€ Cost, average 75kwh/day x 365 = 6843€/year) I am SHOCKED. Seriously, I hope Australia goes 100% solar as fast as possible on those energy productions. Also you are super correct, Tesla makes no sense in your scenario, you would reduce cost efficiency by 84%, because your payback goes to 8 years.

[@maxmouche]

@@livinlicious I'm in Oz too (centre of Sydney mind you, can't go solar yet as I live in a block of apartments.) but whenever I escape the city, I'm always surprised that only some of the houses have solar! It's an absolute no brainer here. There should have been a push for it ages ago. We could easily lead the way globally (as Norway does with EVs for instance).

[@flain283]

@@livinlicious It's nearly paid itself off, our prices are about $0.33 per kWh here, however the electricity company only gives me $0.09 per kWh for feed in. So to calculate the actual value I'm getting i need to factor in 2 things: - energy i have consumed directly from the solar (that i would of otherwise had to pay for if i didn't have solar) - energy i have feed back into the grid and been credited for at the lower rate My household is a high consumer of energy (air conditioner, kids using power, electric water heater etc) so i still need to pay for that once the sun goes down. Most days I'm at break even, as in no cost for the day. That still means it's cheaper here to get a bigger system than is it to buy a battery. A battery would of doubled the cost of my system and would only store 1/8th or 1/10th of the daily power generation. Doubling my system size would yield much higher returns that a battery also.

[@steviegbcool]

@@flain283 yeah we did exact same install in Queensland 16kw for 12 thousand 2 years ago which is about 8 thousand USD and we estimated it to paid itself off in another 5 years. It would of been shorter but the price of electricity has gone up and feed in tariff has gone down a lot in the last year we now only get 10c feed in tariff instead of 20c when we started 2 years ago :/ so still not worth getting battery yet. Also we get some fierce heat and some wild cyclones here so there is no way those Tesla tiles would last in half of Australia

[@blauw67]

Can't imagine someone wanting a lawn In Cali.

[@GreylanderTV]

Can't imagine wanting a lawn anywhere. A grassy area for kids to play maybe... but a lawn for appearances? No thanks.

[@nordic5490]

@@GreylanderTV a lawn in the front is silly, unless it is a fenced play area. There are several good reasons to have a lawn the back. My large back lawn was applauded by the local fire athority when we did a district walk around, looking at fire risks. My house is located in an official high fire risk area and the rear lawn is a firebreak.

[@robbiealderton1361]

@@GreylanderTV Where I live (White, Rich, snoody) everyone's lawn has to be perfect, or you get shamed. the back is my soccer field so if my neighbors saw it they would have a fit lmao.

[@poultrypants]

@@robbiealderton1361 yo I would love to have my own soccer field

[@lostchild2003]

@@nordic5490Regardless of how many times you repeat it, you don't need a lawn to provide a firebreak.

[@KJSvitko]

More yards need designed to conserve water and provide food and homes for bees, butterflies and other insects and animals. An added benefit is you are saving money on watering grass and lawn care. A win for the environment and a win for your savings.

[@keco185]

Especially if you're in an area that would otherwise require watering your lawn. I'm fortunate enough to be in an area with plenty of rainwater so I don't need to water my lawn, but the people who live in California, suffer from drought, and still decide to waste water on grass baffle me.

[@superdutyzack]

My grandparents had a huge grass front lawn and when the drought really started to show they reduced the grass to about 1/3 and used rocks and desert plants for the rest and it looks amazing. People are just salty and insecure.

[@b3ngel618]

In Germany it is illegal to have a stone front yard... Environment and habitat for Insects and Animals u know. They need Green to survive

[@superdutyzack]

@B3ngel They don't need green to survive actually, explain desert wildlife. Secondly, the only permanent animal on their property is their dog who hunts anything that moves. Wildlife is meant for the wild, not your front yard in the middle of a town.

[@b3ngel618]

@SuperDuty Zack Other climate sry... 🤦‍♂️🌴

[@randyrice1429]

Thank you for being so ecologically savvy. Your California rain garden is much better looking than a regular lawn, besides being the "green" thing to do. I do have a question about your roof. Do you worry about advances in roof technology making yours obsolete? I have decided to do a standing seam metal roof with solar panels. They will be so much easier and cheaper to replace in the event of some major gain in technology.

[@ThisGuysTesla]

It takes a minute to change out a tile as they’re are clipped into connectors. Tesla just introduced a new tile that is 24% more powerful. Not that I will, but maybe in a few years when prices have dropped and performance increased even more, I would consider changing out some of the tiles.

[@clawsoon]

120 years ago, Thorstein Veblen pointed out that lawns were a way for rich people to show that they had so much money to waste that they could make something that looked like a cow pasture without having to make money off it by actually raising cows. And of course whatever rich people were doing 120 years ago is what all Americans have to do now...

[@maxmouche]

@@ThisGuysTesla I would also like to point out that your front garden is absolutely amazing. F#ck lawns, they are sooooo 20th century. What you have is not only better looking, it's also way better for the environment, it's a win win!

[@blackf1ng3r62]

Love your solid rebuttals, Sven - and the response of your wife to the idiot garden question ! Even here in Tasmania, we're getting rid of lawn and planting a drought-resistant garden .

[@ZetaPyro]

NPR did a show about America's obsession with lawns and it was really eye-opening to me how terribly wasteful it all was (water, fertilizer, gas in dirty engines, labor, etc.), particularly in dry climates and areas when grasses aren't native. I highly approve of your decision to move to low-water native plants instead.

[@--2]

You do know that water seeps into the ground and or evaporates and rains down again... In the end it all ends up in a lake, the groundwater or the sea... which it can be collected from again and used.

[@mayur619]

@@--2 Just a few things that differs from your point. 1. Just because it evaporates doesn't mean it will rain in the same area it might just blow into the ocean and rain there. 2. Although I don't know much about if it happens due to lawns also, I do remember there being studies conducted which showed that groundwater can get polluted due to the fertilisers and chemical used in farming. 3. A continuation of point 2, also fertilisers are known to disrupt the natural balance of waterbodies For example, some fertilisers(nitrogen) are known to cause an explosion in population of algae which further causes depletion of O2 in water(some species consume more than they produce) and lead to death of fishes.

[@nordic5490]

a lawn in the front is silly, unless it is a fenced play area. There are several good reasons to have a lawn the back. My large back lawn was applauded by the local fire athority when we did a district walk around, looking at fire risks. My house is located in an official high fire risk area and the rear lawn is a firebreak.

[@souloftheage]

100% agreed!

[@dansanger5340]

Ridiculous. I mow my lawn with a plug-in electric motor a few times per year. I don't water it, because that's expensive. That's the extent of the maintenance. Where is the environmental catastrophe?

[@2nd3rd1st]

Love your transition to an awesome diverse wild front garden. I think native city people just can't recognise real nature anymore, let alone appreciate it, even when it's contrasted with fake nature aka manicured lawns.

[@ThisGuysTesla]

Well said!

[@2nd3rd1st]

@@ThisGuysTesla I have heard about build front lawns back better schemes like that in Las Vegas too, should be introduced in all desert states. Sadly wasteful private and public lawns are a big thing in Europe too and there are no plans to replace those, no matter how brown they turn during summer

[@victor_rivas]

@@ThisGuysTesla What model of tiles did you install? «SR60T1» our «SR72T1»

[@kevinpeterson1398]

You should come to Phoenix. All we have is desert landscaping 😁

[@vincerussell7121]

Two years in and we still love our Solar Roof!

[@Darkness251]

It's crazy that people pay 200+ $ a month for a lawn. Thats more than I pay for all of my utilites. (Heat, water, electricity)

[@johnvandenbroek9753]

Great video and info on the Tesla roof….. Also I love the way your lawn looks. Thanks!!

[@WillProwse]

Very informative video. Thank you.

[@JeyTeh]

Very informative. Thanks for the vid

[@ComplexKangaroo]

Great video, thanks for making the effort!

[@JoshLanners]

Thanks so much for the series, it is awesome!

[@thakangbaby]

Hahaha nice!! You really gave those bizarre questions some proper feedback 😛😅🤭👌🏾 Loved it bro. Keep up the good work 🙏🏽

[@jetmartin9501]

Thanks for sharing!

[@vincentleuga8135]

The garden is beautiful :) Oh, and thanks a lot for the return of experience ! Take care and stay safe.

[@mathewherges397]

This is a really awesome follow-up video! I'm considering getting a solar roof in a few years when I have to replace my aging roof and your experiences have helped inform me of questions I need to ask.

[@RicoOder]

Hopefully you‘re back with more videos like your roofing videos, I really liked them and I’m curious about your garage roof 😍

[@TomTom-cm2oq]

Great video!! Thanks!

[@Crusherix]

Thank you for giving us precious info :)

[@bernardsimon1631]

Wonderful presentation. Really enjoyed

[@WAGISDev]

You did a great job on the videos. I appreciate you sharing your experience with Tesla too; the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[@MC-bm3cy]

Great stuff! Love the garden

[@snuggles03]

That’s a great video, thank you very much

[@rolandoarauz-bryan1210]

Love your videos. New subscriber here. Keep up the great work.

[@Xanthopteryx]

Do not care so much about the solar but, that lawn is amazing! Low cost, low maintanence and really good for wildlife, and yourself. I wish everyone did that!

[@icemastergeraldsilk]

Cool roof! Thanks for the info!

[@jpmcnown1]

I want to look into scaling down a coal power plant for individual home use.

[@JBoy340a]

Nice setup. We also have a solar roof and 2 powerwalls. Installed in spring 2020. Yep beginning of the pandemic. The system has been one of best investments and eliminated our $500/mo mid summer electric bills plus provided large credits for power exported to the grid. We use these credits in the winter months. And as a result have almost no electrical bills year round. We also can charge the EV with power from solar and have eliminate most of our vehicle fuel costs. And thanks for showing the yard. We are redoing ours and are looking for ways to reduce our water usage.

[@harveypaxton1232]

Let's see, you gave up a low electricity bill for a large payment on your solar? Break even of 20 to 25 years? You will then need to replace your equipment?

[@restosandrevivals4597]

Great video! Very informative :)

[@Dragonluna69]

Great video thanks

[@nutrientdensepermaculture9391]

Awesome video and I love your ethics!

[@drew-azureperthwestaust4818]

Brilliant video. Thx for your efforts, so interesting, informative and entertaining. This is a valuable resource for anyone looking at a Tesla solar roof.

[@ThisGuysTesla]

Glad it was helpful!

[@banderson1979]

Thanks for answering the crazy peoples comments. It’s fun to watch. Cheers.

[@typxxilps]

I love Josh, the garden and I like the roof and how you send the message out. und Frohes Neues Jahr von good old germany

[@eastpetersen]

Thanks, awesome video.

[@MrSideshowjoe]

I worked for Tesla as a roofer. They gave us 2 days training to learn

[@Bare_Essence]

"Hello. Drought much?" lol. That was a perfect response! My "shitty yard" is trying to save the planet. Thanks for noticing! Sorry for the late response. Just catching up on Tesla Solar roof videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@HoldLeadersAccountable]

Great video!! Great yard too good job for doing whats best!

[@heresthething9740]

Another great video. We completed install of our roof about two weeks ago, now dealing with getting final inspection done in the city of San Jose (we didn't pass on the first try). So now we are waiting on PG&E to install something on our meter (we already have a smart meter), then we can get the final rescheduled. After that we will be waiting on PTO. It's been a long process and I am working on a series of videos to post (they won't be any thing on the level of yours) but I hope the information I get out there might also be helpful. Honestly, your videos were what got us through our entire project, just knowing if can get done. Thanks again for the awesome content.

[@ThisGuysTesla]

Congrats and good luck on the PTO. I got very friendly with my utility and once I had the right person on the phone it got done within a day. Let us know when you post your first video :)

[@mattbrew11]

Tesla direct for solar is one of the most misguided decisions someone will ever make

[@heresthething9740]

@@mattbrew11 Thanks for the feedback. That said, given your KZbin name, I don’t think any decision I (we) made would have been to your liking. I’m curious, you are quick to point out the misguided decision but didn’t offer which is a better solution in your opinion. Since others might read this, please let us all know what the non-misguided decision should be for other future Solar buyers. Thank you.

[@Totial]

nice facts summary!!

[@Shy_Knee_Side_Up]

Watched a few of your Tesla roof install series and soooo much of it seems to be the massive bureaucracy of the state of California. I watched a DIY solar roof install of Panasonic panels by the Frugal Repair’s channel in the great state of Pennsylvania and it’s almost comical to compare the two experiences. Mind you one is done by a giant multinational being Tesla and the other is DIY. I will take the latter any day of the week. I would love to see a Tesla roof install non-pandemic, NOT in Commifornia. Well done on seeing this project through and you did a commendable job overall for sure.

[@joostfloot5279]

Love the garden, looks amazing

[@MisterFlak]

One thing this video taught me is people are ugly, salty little know it all's. They always 'know better', always have bad things to say and live their lives soaked in sadness.

[@eddevoe2519]

2 years in on my roof and I love it. I don't have the undulations like you do because the roof under your tiles is uneven and the tiles will follow their contour.

[@ChristopherbergII]

Wow I really learned a lot I appreciate your upload thank you so much. I aspire to build my own spectacular domicile with such beautiful nature surrounding much appreciated

[@carguyuk7525]

Over priced roof. In UK I can get a 7kw system with battery storage for £8k installed. Great video and detailed info.

[@rdizzy1]

You need to add in the price for a whole new roof for your house as well, as this replaces the actual roof, it is not simply solar panels on top of an existing roof. You would make this change when your roof is due for replacement.

[@ArieSfez]

@@rdizzy1 You need a new roof only if you need it. Most of the existing houses have an existing roof.

[@fredericrike5974]

I have always been intrigued by "water law". Some of the very first know rules or laws reference water rights and here we are a couple of thousand years from there fixing to have "that discussion" again. The more we change, sometimes the more we seem to stay the same.

[@chainsawsandgenerators9952]

i talked to one guy that had the power wall, the one thing they didn't tell them is it needs to communicate with the Testa servers to work. during the CA wildfires the communication went down, making the system useless as a backup power source.

[@marcd6897]

That’s not correct. Yes, it occasionally checks with Tesla servers for updating the internal software, but it works perfectly fine if there is no connection. I think that guy you talked to had no clue and was just telling you a story from la-la land.

[@chainsawsandgenerators9952]

@@marcd6897 then why during the wildfires that knocked out commucauons to it, it started to shut down every four days, needing a physical power down, before it would start producing power again for another four days? More curious then anything.

[@akitas8165]

@@marcd6897 Isn't La-la land where Tesla reside ?

[@jimdickson1969]

Awesome, thank you..

[@jondcarson52]

Your garden is beautiful. And great responses to the "uninformed" (overly kind description on my part) Keep up the great work...

[@IamSpider_0]

From MN, my sister lives in Sonoma County, I enjoyed your lawn, and the info about the solar system was good too.

[@REC_CER]

Love your garden!

[@danjennings5068]

Lol at the people thinking your yard is ugly without a lawn. I hate lawns, such a pain to deal with, not even considering the water waste. A big selling point for my house was that it didn't have a lawn but more interesting shrubs and flowers. Not full native like yours, but still much more efficient than a lawn.

[@susanblackley7065]

Thank you, Sven!

[@flyinpolack6633]

good info. Your yard looks great, lawns suck to deal with.

[@gv2974]

Great garden. I had to replant my lawn several times (it was getting all dead in summer). Eventually I developed allergy to festuca (the type I was planting), I never seed lawn anymore, only native species

[@MONDAY______]

Wow, I just watched your Tesla roof video last night!

[@milwaukeetim]

Super video. Toll was ihr da gemacht habt. PS ich finde den Vorgarten toll. Bin neidisch.

[@motorcorp_0073]

Love your videos bro 💗

[@ThisGuysTesla]

I appreciate it!

[@bdjm8595]

excellent vid !!!

[@usp211816]

Ive heard about this rainwater thing in FL too. My city also has a rain barrel program. It is illegal to "divert water from the aquifer" which has something to do with rainwater but not much, basically its to stop ranchers from creating concrete lined ponds that hold thousands of gallons of water and keep it from seeping into the ground.

[@brianborkowski5977]

I have watched other videos on Solar Roof and the warp is due to the crew not properly laying the sheathing. Asphalt roofs will still look good regardless but a solar roof requires that the sheathing not be warped. If it is warped, they should have removed the bad sections and placed new sheathing (plywood or OSB). They bent your solar tiles to lay flat agains the warped sheathing

[@TheDarkhorse82]

Pretty sure the solar installer are just roofers and not actual GC's who would have done it properly and shimmed the sheathing

[@markstevenson9080]

Thank you!

[@B30pt87]

Thanks again for this video - and THANK YOU for replacing your lawn! Permaculture rocks!

[@jazztbonist]

Great video and I like the garden! (Everyone is a critic ;))

[@michaeldautry]

I’d love to see a video all about your yard and which plants you selected

[@TheSonsOfIreland]

Tesla quote for my home was $78,000 for roof tiles, so ya they raised their prices. They have the best looking roofs so its a premium for that look.

[@fintux]

My favorite answer by far was the one to the question #1. I like your garden, it looks nice, is not just a boring lawn and also is eco friendly.

[@Goratek]

Super documentary 👍

[@saphiquefemme]

That's crazy collecting rain water is actually regulated! That's awesome the law changed though! I like the garden because there's a lot of city areas with very dry territory. Very informative vlog, thank you!

[@ron7257]

Good job, good video!

[@ILoveCunnilingus]

In Miami most of the front lawns you see mostly consist of driveways or large concrete slabs, because grass grows vigorously and especially during the rainy season. Miami homeowners don't want to deal with the lawn maintenance or cost.

[@renerebe]

Hello? Stealing rain water? Wtf? What is wrong with those politicians. Love your garden! Amazingly beautiful! Greeting to Josh!

[@Aledharris]

Your garden looks really nice.

[@doinkcym]

Great explanation

[@kromaggo2pl]

Collecting rainwater being illegal must be the dumbest thing I ever heard of...

[@darktrooper7591]

Fantastic video. Sadly the Tiles are not available here in Australia yet but hopefully it will be soon.

[@ThisGuysTesla]

Fingers crossed!

[@brtko_marek]

nice eco-friendly house + i like the garden :) if i ever get a house here in europe, i will try to get the solar roof too :)

[@kenbob1071]

Love the front lawn!

[@Camerondes21]

Just noticed at the end you have a tube solar light. Very cool, fits in with everything else you have going. Did that get put in before during or after the solar install?

[@wilfredvanvalkenburgh2874]

I come from a land of green. What I mean is water. 52 inches per year. Everything turns green, even if you don't want it to. Love your xeriscaped yard. Totally appropriate for your climate. Love the solar roof, too. Build with nature, not against. Thanks

[@Thoughmuchistaken]

Kudos on the 'lawn', I started letting my front lawn grow wild with native plants, rocks, logs and such in it, it's never been better year round. Luckily I live in the country ...and I don't have silly youtube commenters to deal with.

[@tebrannan]

Thanks for this post! I was on the list, but cancelled. I will get back on the list, based on your inputs.

[@mark123655]

Great video. Interestingly in Australia most local codes now require rainwater harvesting tanks, both rural and urban. Surprised Tesla installed so many panels on the NE. Did you ever get a quote on how many 'normal' solar panels (and equivalent wattage) might have been able to be installed?

[@Nevir202]

I think he addressed that in his video documenting the entire process? Can’t remember for sure though.

[@steviegbcool]

a 7kw system would cost you about 5 thousand USD here in Australia. The Tesla roof is a poor investment and i cant see those tiles lasting 5 years.

[@ChristopherHarris1]

I'm going down the path of solar now and am loving finding all of these videos. Sadly the math for the tesla solar roof seems to have shifted a lot, Tesla's contractor quoted me at $200k compared to equivalent production panels + a 50 year shingle roof for $50k.

[@mayo9017]

Amazing content :-)

[@DanHiteshew-oneandonly]

That "lawn" is awesome.

[@johnkyd3977]

Love the garden

[@NANDOFFDataRecovery]

Great video.. I miss Cali. Will come back one day

[@TheMainCal]

To the lawn guy GET OVER IT...it's not your house. That said good video I appreciate the questions you went back to research and answer.

[@Sundara229]

Something about making use of what nature is providing us for free, even small things like "filtering" and collecting that rain water, really excites me.

[@1pabguzr]

I ride on my John Deer small tractor to mawn the lawn for 3 hours by weekly and I enjoy the smell of grass and love the look after im down. My neighbors pay to have it cut . I find it to be pleasant when I'm done with a handy project. My wife loves the look of our clean cut grass and trimmed palm trees. We don't use any water. Just less than a gallon of fuel for both sit on tractor and blower.