new house for mike

[M4wdFab]

the wire front the street is about as big around as my middle finger.... i think it makes the barn feed wire look small but its really not. 


hey you cant have everything right with a house lol 

[etk300ex]

You had a junction point after your meter and ahead of your service disconnect? 

National Electric Code.  After your meter it must be terminated at a service disconnecting means at the nearest readily accessible location.  You cant have a service disconnecting means at 2 separate locations.

Can be overridden by the electrical inspector of course.

[luvmyxj]

is it better just to keep his existing house connection and run a new service from street pole to barn and add a meter there,if nick can dig the trench i can assist with running pipe and the urd

[etk300ex]

Utility will not allow one residence to have two services.

[Wingman]

The junction occurs within the meter box.

[M]

Also, if smike plans to rent out the smaller garage in the future - how would he know what to charge the tenant for power?    (don't say it'd be included in the price - that will be abused)

[M4wdFab]

new panel in house done hot, done

adding 2 sub pannels off barn, done

for 50-100$ on ebay you can record KW usage on a non resetable 10 year life unit.  still not convinced i want to deal with morons on my property for rental



you guys are worse with home projects than truck projects  lol

[cracker]

Utility will not allow one residence to have two services.

I have a separate service for my barn.

[etk300ex]

They'll occasionally allow it if it's more work for them to upgrade the existing. But their book specifications are single family residence gets one meter. 

Curious, do you have to pay the fees for each meter?

[cracker]

yeah, I assume you mean the $21ish "Customer Charge" fee.  It is probably also that way since my barn was built first.

[M4wdFab]

clocked second mow offical time at 43 min   


man!  i was going for sub 30 min!  dammit! 

my free echo commercial string trimmer is pretty sweet! i hate trimming but looks way cleaner.  maybe trim every two or three mows.  meh. 

[Wingman]

getting lazy already?! 

[rejeep]

Welcome to home ownership...

[mr.mindless]

I trim a couple times a year. Fuck trimming.

Need to do my hedge. It’s getting outlandish.

[M4wdFab]

not lazy just fat and out of knee tolerance today.


cant get my sweet microsoft MN-500 to spit wireless.  connects to devices but with errors.  nothing in the base station management tool that is useful.  bah.