Moved the electrical power supply

Hindsight is 20/20, so the saying goes.

When we did the Big Project, we had to upgrade our electrical service from 100 amp to 200 amp, which required the whole house being disconnected from the electrical supply and new, heavier wiring being run. That would have been the perfect time to relocate the power from the original location on the bumped-out section of windows by the dining room, but we didn't think of it then. No, it wasn't until well over a year later, when we were talking to our next door neighbors that Chris mentioned it would be nice to have the power moved to the other side of the house, since that's a less visible area of the house, and it would clean up the look.

Well, we thought it was a brilliant idea, but we'd already had the work done, and figured it would be prohibitively expensive. I wasn't even going to pursue it any further, but Grace suggested we have Wes Carver stop by and give us a quote. Wes came out and looked it over, and although it wasn't tremendously cheap, it was definitely doable... so we decided to have it done.

Now that it's done, we're really happy with the results. Wes's guys did a great job with the conversion, mounting a main disconnect panel in the basement and running the power line back to the existing breaker panel... and the outside of the house now looks much cleaner. From our bedroom, we used to see a power line out of each of the three windows, with loops of supply cable right outside the center window. Now, that's all gone, moved out of sight, and it looks far better. Now, we can also properly fix the siding that had been obscured by the original power lines and meter.

A side effect is that the carraige house is now without power. At some point in the future, we'll be running a trench out to the carraige house to reconnect the water, waste, and electrical, but until then, the carraige house will just be a big shed. Not too much of a problem, but I will have to set something up so I can run an extension cord back there when I need power.

It would have been better to have moved the supply lines during the start of the Big Project, but oh well... I'm sure there will be other things we wind up re-doing as well. As long as the end result is good, we'll be happy.