What was meant for evil he turns around for good!
Sunday, April 14, 2013
This is right outside of our gate they cut away the burnt up piece and will splice a new piece of cable in. They had to break apart half of our driveway to get at this. |
This was the burnt up piece |
New splice... with tar... which they had to undo probably 3 times after this. |
Since the neutral had 70 volts and thought it was our cable that needed to be replaced they hooked my whole house up to once phase until we could get the cable replaced. |
As they dug up the cable in the garage they hit a water pipe. |
Which by the looks of everything around it had been leaking for white a while. This is a rusted covering around some old ground wire.. we have no idea where it goes |
It did not take much effort to get the pipe out... it pretty much broke when Rod picked it up and twisted a little. |
Piece of wire and covering that was under the leaky pipe |
Digging a nice whole in our drive way to get to the small cable and disconnect it to run a new one. |
Have I mentioned that our workers are fantastic. |
We took the water pipe all up in the garage to right outside it the pipe you see to the left comes from the pump, it seemed in good shape so we left it. |
Cable on the left is too small and is what they think caused the burn up on the road. |
New cable and water pipes. |
Opps... this was a good PVC pipe that we may have hit with a pic axe so we had to replace that too... |
Rod working on the pipe we hit with the pic axe |
New cable being laid. As you can see instead of taking up more cement going to the road they just dug a whole under it. |
New cable all hooked up to the meter. |
New pipes. We left some of the old pipes in the ground disconnected because it would have been a lot of damage/work to get it out. |
Such pretty new water pipes and cable |
Even though it was hot and Ruth and I didnt bathe for a couple days she took it all in stride. |
2 comments
I need to link this to my blog now. :) I am glad everything is working now.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rod, for always being there to help!
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