Approved

 


I've been approved! And I am ecstatic and relieved.

This initial inspection is needed by the power company before they will bring in electricity from the street.  On Thursday I completed the work needed in order to request inspection.  Here is the list:

  • Attach the vinyl mounting blocks. (not code, but it makes for a nice finished look.)
  • Attach the disconnect switch to the wall.
  • Attach the electric meter to the wall.
  • Connect the two with a 2 inch conduit (make sure the bushings are used to keep from abrading wire).
  • Attach a 3 inch conduit down into the soil so that the power company has a protected path to bring in their wire
  • Run 3 heavy gauge copper wires ( I used 3/0 ) between the output of the meter and the input of the disconnect.  Make sure the wires are color coded black, white, and red.  Black and red are power, white is neutral.
  • Pound two 8 foot grounding rods into the soil.
  • Connect the grounding rods and the concrete encased ground together and connect to the ground bar in the disconnect.
All this took me about 6 hours to accomplish.

When I spoke with the inspector, I made it clear that a) I was the guy who he had told to quit contacting and b) I had gone ahead and gotten professional advice.  I wanted to make 2 things clear:  I am not a pro, so look very closely at what I do and I did listen to his advice.

He went out later on Friday to take a look.  And I never heard anything again about it, until I stopped by the property and saw the green "approved" sticker on the meter.

Apparently, flowers were not needed

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