Hi all! My family and I have been wanting to go off grid for some time. Recently our oil burning boiler kicked the bucket and we want to use the opportunity to figure out hot water and heating using alternative methods. (We heat mostly with wood from our land, but in the event that we are not home we would like to have a back up. Thus heating our water is our main conern) We would love to go full solar someday and want to have a system that is in line with that. We are concerned with using a heat pump as we hear they can make a basement very cold and with our New England winters we can't be freezing our pipes. What do you do for hot water? Any feedback at all is appreciated. Thanks for your time!
