Big One Two: The Power Thingy Is Finally Done

After we moved, we realized that the power cables that came from the street pole were about to fall into pieces. Piece of crap. The cable must be old as the house (and according to the neighbors, who try to demonstrate the historic importance of the house, this was one of the first ones in the neighborhood!)





When I called the city to see if they could replace the cables, they said "yeah, sure, no biggie. There's a problem, though. Your meter doesn't comply with the code, and you need to move it to the west side of the house." It's a "wesside" meter now. The problem was that these cables shouldn't turn around a corner of the house as the old cable did (first picture up there), and it has to be at least 30 inches away from any window, and these cables are like two inches above two of our windows.

It took the electricians three days to finish the thing. They removed the old meter and installed a new one. Then they had to connect the meter to the switchboard (which was also replaced), and it wasn't easy, since they are in opposite sides of the house now. Anyway, it's done, it looks better, and above all, now I know that my power cables won't fall apart any minute now.

The red bubble shows the old cable from the pole to the part of the house where it goes around the corner. The old meter was in the back of the house (south side):


The new cable is in the red bubble, and the green circle surrounds the new meter. You can see where they cut the old cable. For some reason they left a little bit of it:


Old/New switchboard. We still have to cover that hole on top of the new switchboard, but we have like 200 projects to complete first...