Poor Lap House is the neglected stepchild of The(flipping)Victorians. Not by their choice! Hick has put in new electric, and is waiting on the electric company to come run wires from the pole to the house.
"How long have you been waiting on the electric company?"
"The last email I got was on June 2nd, when I asked my buddy who works for them. The inspector. He approved my work, and put in a service order. On June 2nd, he said he didn't know how long it would be. That he had put in the order a week before that. But they are behind on service calls."
"What exactly are they going to do?"
"Run the wire from the pole to the house."
"If you hadn't put in new electric, would they need to do anything?"
"No. If I'd left it the same, it would still be working. But they have to connect it with the new kind of wire. The old kind was three separate wires. They could short theirselves out. The new kind has the three wires wrapped around a grounding rod. So it won't short."
"When did they start using this NEW kind of wire?"
"Oh... back in the '70s."
"Heh, heh! That's not so new! I guess this house is like The Pony's house down the block, built around 1920?"
"Yeah. It's from back then."
Meanwhile, Hick waits. He needs electricity to run his saws to get started on the interior of Lap House.
Ooh! I HATE this sort of hold up. Don't they have enough people that one can be spared to run a single wire? I hope it gets done soon.
ReplyDeleteWe need Hick working when he gets the urge! So this is a problem. Imagine flippers who are paying a loan. This delay could cost them an extra mortgage payment by delaying work.
DeleteI guess this order for Lap House is low priority. It probably keeps getting pushed aside like somebody with a sprained ankle in an emergency room. Crews get sent to more immediate problems, like storm damage, or apartments, or inhabited single homes.
Is there a generator purchase in the near future?
ReplyDeleteYou never know. Hick is gone to an auction right now. I don't think he's invested enough in Lap House currently to make that step in order to work on it. He's been hovering around his darling, Cheap House, which got a new roof today.
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