May 6, 2005 - Friday - Today we passed our "Electric Service" inspection!
This means everything from the street to the electric breaker panel in the home
has been inspected and is OK. Passing this inspection means we can contact
our "PUD" (Public Utility District) and request that they come and "light us
up", which means they will install our electric meter and connect the big wires
we have going out to the street to their power grid.
This is a big step in the process of completing the wiring for the home.
Once our breaker panel is "hot" we can actually test all the wiring
being done.
This picture shows an outlet box in the north east bedroom set into the
expanded polystyrene (EPS) of our ICF wall. You can also see that a small
channel was cut into the EPS that is used to run the electrical wire to the box.
The box cut out and the wiring channel were made using a "hot knife". We
get our hot knife from
Wind-Lock and
we are also a Wind-Lock dealer.
May 6, 2005 - Friday - While our electrical work is being done,
Ben Smith, fourth generation Sequim dairy
farmer and residential builder, is putting the finishing touches on his second
spec home just behind us. Ben needed a bit of fill dirt which we happened
to have. As an accomplished "Bobcat" operator, Ben made quick work of
moving our dirt over to his lot. We were very thankful that he used his
remaining time on the Bobcat rental to do some grading on our lot. Thanks
Ben!! Now all we need to do is find a couple guys half as talented as
Ben's crew. Jason and Carl are not only nice guys, they are home building
dynamos! They are so good that many days Ben attends to chores at the
dairy while these guys make progress on the jobsite. Too bad guys like
these don't grow on trees!
This picture shows the view from our front porch and the grading that Ben
accomplished.
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