Update on my House Rebuild Project

[Jeff Weaver]

The project manager, Tim, told me to call my power company and ask them to move the temporary power on the pole in my backyard to the house.  Yeah!

I'm working from my house today.  Sitting under a cedar tree in my backyard.

Oncor said that they would be here at 10:00 AM today which is already in the past (and they aren't here yet).

I talked to Tim, the project manager, and said I'm concerned about a power cable that is in the wall in the master bathroom.  It's to power the Medicine Cabinet which hasn't been installed yet.  At some point it got plastered into the wall.  I was concerned that if they turn the power back on, the power cable that is embedded in the wall could catch fire.  Tim told me the power company would connect the power to the house and not turn the power in the house on and that an electrician will be out today to check things like what I mentioned.

Right now, I'm powering my laptop off of the temporary power pole.  So I guess once Oncor comes I won't have any power.  I've already talked to my wonderful neighbors Dennis and Tranquilla and they'll supply me with some power in the interim.

Major things left:

-- Power Hook up (happening today)

-- AC Installation (the outside unit is not even here yet)

-- Fireplace Installation

Lots of other things, but those are the major ones.

Thanks,

Jeff A Weaver

[Amanda Johnson]

I'm sorry that this has been such a long process. Glad to hear that things are coming together, though.

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand" (Isaiah 41:10, ESV). 

Love and continued prayers,

Amanda

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[Jeff Weaver]

Oncor is here now.  (Two hours late.)

He said that the old meter is still hot.

The underground line doesn't line up with the new power box they put on my house (another screw up?).  He's going to have to call the underground crew to extend it.  Apparently it has to come straight up.

He also said the grounding rod needs to be copper.  The grounding wire is copper but the metal stake is some other metal (maybe aluminum).

This might get done today, maybe first thing in the morning.

Right now, they went over to my neighbor's yard to disconnect the old meter.

Jeff A Weaver

[Jeff Weaver]

Ashley from Oncor just called me and said that to move the power feed it would cost $625 for up to 100 feet and that I would be responsible for trenching.

I called the Project Manager and told him and asked him why the new power box wasn't lined up where the old one was?

I'm rolling my eyes.

Pray for me.

[Jeff Weaver]

I've been talking to Ashley with Oncor.  I've been able to call her and talk to her and figure things out.  Oncor has been really helpful and easy to work with (Imagine that).

I had it a little bit wrong.  For $625 Oncor will re-run the wire up to 150 feet.  I measured the fence line from the back of my house (where the power comes in from my neighbors) to the side where the power meter will be and that's 122 Feet.  I imagine that the transformer is probably at most 10 feet behind/beside me in my neighbor's yard.  I didn't climb over the fence this morning in the dark when I was measuring.

Oncor does not do the trenching.  My house was originally built in 1984 so there was no conduit requirement then but there is now.  If I already had the conduit then I wouldn't have to trench.  So I'm going to get quotes on that.

Reading Ashley's (from Oncor) email the trenching needs to be done and then inspected by Oncor and possibly the city.

I'm hoping that Oncor will make replacing the wire a requirement because of the fire.  The meter is located on the garage wall where the fire started.  In that case we can file a supplemental and get the insurance to pay for it.  Otherwise, I suspect I may end up paying for it.  If I want the contractor to pay there may be delays and I need continual forward progress to keep code enforcement happy.

What a catastrophic shift yesterday.  Going from my electric is going to be turned on (getting closer to move in)...to now we have to re-run the wire from the transformer to the house.

[Jeff Weaver]

I forwarded the email I received from Oncor to my contractor, David Avery - Rede Contractors, Tim, my project manager and Kristi, Tim's Boss.

To make a long story short we eventually got on a call because I insisted in an email that I want to know where the digging is going to happen before any digging takes place.

The process as I understand it is that you call 811 which I have and created a ticket.

811 comes out and marks where all the stuff is in the ground

Then you can decide where you're going to dig

Then Oncor inspects the trenching and conduit you've installed and a approves it.

IDK if there is a city inspection or not.

Then you cover the conduit

Then you schedule Oncor to come out and pull their wires through the conduit and hook up your electric.

After I got off the phone with my contractor, I called 811 to check on my ticket.  She had my phone number wrong and my email address.  It wasn't easy to get it fixed either.  I told her my number which ends in 6152 and she said back to me sixty-five twelve.   I said not 6152.  She again said sixty-five twelve.  I said to hear how what you're saying is not the same thing that I'm saying 6-1-5-2.  So we got that fixed.  By this time I had figured out how to pull up my ticket on their web page.  So I said you have my email address wrong too.  It weav...@gmail.com not weav...@gmail.com.  So she says Ok, I'm fixing that and your name as well.  I said no, don't fix my name.  I'm not Jeff Weavol, I"m Jeff Weaver and my email is weav...@gmail.com.

So, it's no wonder that no one has contacted me so far.

She told me that they have until Monday at 4:00 PM to contact me, however they could be up to 48 hours in advance.

So a friend of mine said that they probably wanted to change the wire because the fire damaged it.  You know, no one thought of that.  So I called my Public Adjuster and asked him if we could get the insurance to pay for that.  He said that he would need Oncor to give us in writing that it was required.

It looks like that is probably what is going to happen (that the insurance is going to pay for running the electric wire).

I'm supposed to go out of town on Friday for a security conference in Orlando.  I've been looking forward to just being away for a little bit.

Now they're trying to have my move in date next week.  I'm rolling my eyes again.

Keep praying for me.  I think that this is going to be the worst part.