Sunday, January 27, 2008
New electric and water supplies
Both the electric board, EDF, and the water board, SAUR, arrived this week to do their jobs. I asked EDF to move the current electric meter from the wall next to the fireplace into the laundry room next to the kitchen. The lounge wall with the meter on it is going to be left as exposed stone. The guys moved the meter ok but with much huffing and puffing about drilling through the wall and fixing the new meter. Everything just seemed to be a hassle for them. Maybe they were having a bad day ? They also fitted a box outside, I assume with various extra control bits for cheap rate electric and remote meter reading. Once they had gone I just roughly connected up the supply to my new fuse box with some spare cable to give me light and power for coffee etc.
With the old meter gone it meant I could pressure wash the stone work to clean it up ready for pointing. The large white bit in the prior photo is where the old meter was 'stuck' to the wall with white 'cement'. I think it's come up really well, and should look great once it's pointed up. It certainly helped a great deal that Debbie spent a day or so scraping out the mud and old pointing from between all the stones. When I pressure washed the faces of the stones there was an awful lot of muddy water spraying around and without cleaning out the joints beforehand I don't think it would have got as clean.
SAUR also came to supply the second house with a new water supply and meter. They came and dug holes either side of the road then must have had some sort of tunneling machine to feed the new supply under the road, cos the road surface remained intact. I missed this part of the operation because the guys came, did their job without fuss. I've just got to connect my side up to their meter.
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brittany
renovation
New electric and water supplies
