One of the projects we knew that we wanted to take care of when we bought the house was to move the cable, telephone, and power lines that were coming into the house overhead to underground. I also had a selfish goal of upgrading our electrical from 100 amps to 200 amps.
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| The power line overhead |
The lines were coming in really low and sagged even lower out in the yard. After talking to a couple of electricians and contractors to do the work, we decided to hire our friend Ryan to do the electrical work and rent a mini excavator and bury all the lines ourselves (with lots of help from our friends Mike and Steve...thanks guys). I was pretty excited to rent an excavator and have a little fun playing in the dirt.
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| Excavator in the morning |
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| Digging away |
Jessica gave it a try, which was pretty entertaining to watch...don't think she has a future as a heavy machine operator.
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| Jessica giving the excavator a try |
To meet code, we had to dig 40" deep and the trench had to run from the power pole to the house, which was a little tricky with the concrete lined drainage ditch that was in the way.
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Digging under the drainage ditch
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| A little hand digging |
After digging the trench from the power pole to the house, we put in conduit for the cables to be pulled through and then backfilled the trench, which made a mess of the yard.
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| Conduit |
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| Backfilled Trench |
While we were outside digging the trench, Ryan was inside installing a new breaker box and meter can in order to handle the 200 amps and new location (side of the house).
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| I love all the room in the new breaker box |
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| New meter can and cable junction on the side of the house |
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