Monday, May 19, 2008
Look at the bright side!
For the last few days we have had problems with our power fluctuation and part of the house loosing power. After ignoring it I started not feeling right about it. I kept worrying the house was going to blow up or something(I am a little neurotic sometimes) So last night it was doing it real bad so we decided to call the power company at midnight to have them look at it. Evidently they changed our meter to a digital reader since then we have had problems. Well the power company came out and pulled the box off and one of the lines coming into our house was totally arching. Rick told them to take it off because it is right next to parkers room and we didn't want a bar b qed parker in the morning. So right now our house is on half power. But the bright side is my computer still has power, our fridges still have power, the dryer but not the washer has power (meaning, DARN I can't do laundry today)and the televisions still work. So our electrician is our brother in law and he is in canada right now (go figure) So he is sending one of his workers over to fix it this afternoon. This will probably be a $300 fix and that is cost plus we will pay the hourly wage for my brother in laws employee. I swear this old house loves to nickle and dime us to death.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
EEEK and why didnt the power company fix it if they switched it out and that is when the problem started???? O know iam missing something....
because the part that was arching was the part of the box that goes into the house so therefore it is the homeowners responsibility. Which is total crap because if they would have never messed with it then we wouldn't have had the problem to begin with. I wrote them a big mean letter which I am sure no one will respond but in the meantime we had to get it fixed.
Welcome to being a home owner. At least you found the problem before you had charbroiled children!!!
Post a Comment