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07/31/2014 - Electric and more driveway
When it rains it pours. Today I had electricians and the driveway guys all at the same time. I started out with Will the owner of Advanced Electric and his worker. Will showed the guy everything that needed to be started on left his worker to start pulling wires for the bathroom. I needed to install two wall panels so that there was a place to mount wall switches so I got busy with that while the electrician was pulling wires. I called Leroy and got him to come in to help me with putting down base boards for attaching wall panels.
The concrete guys started by continuing to tear up the old asphalt driveway with a new skid steer (yesterdays was broke). When Bobby started cutting the grade he managed to snag the PVC pipe I had laid as a conduit under the driveway. Fortunately he didn’t catch the phone cable that was lying next to it. After a bit they brought back the repaired skid steer from yesterday and really started tearing things up.
Some how the electricians were multiplying. By the end of the day I had 5 guys pulling wires, mounting boxes and installing light switches. One guy that they had pulled from a dock job because the dock wasn’t there had on these really cool sneakers that had toes. I guess when you’re working on a dock they would come in really handy. They really got a lot accomplished today, pulled all of the home runs, mounted all of the light switch and outlet boxes by the doors, wired the bathroom and mounted and wired the fart fan (with light and heater), installed both door lights, installed and wired the service panel outside and the breaker box inside. The only thing left for tomorrow for them is pulling the home runs into the breaker box and installing the breakers. After that we should be able to call for rough-in inspection and get Blue Ridge Electric Co-op started on the work order for hooking up to the transformer.
In the middle of all of this I re-mounted the backhoe onto the Kubota and dug a trench for the French drain I am installing at the edge of the carport. Bobby sent Leroy and I to Lowe’s to get the lumber required to build a 40ft form for the drain. Brandon came at around 1 after doing shuttle service for his wife Heather and baby Thumper from their trip to New York. He could have taken the boat to get them at GSP because of the deluge that hung over the I-85 corridor from here to Greenville. We only got a drop or two here at the house.
Once here, Brandon took over directing the driveway crew because he knew what he wanted as far as grading and form work. There’s more to be done, but we’re getting close. They were moving the dump truck from the garage area to out by the street and the guy managed to run over the curved forms that were set up by the parking area. His own guys were yelling bloody murder at him because they spent a lot of time on the curve and he crushed the lumber. He was lucky the soil was soft or the steel form pins could have blown a tire and that would have been an expensive mistake.
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