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Hey, it's a big day. The house gets juiced up. They say an eco-friendly house can't be
built in 150 days for $150,000, and I say it can. I'm Allen Smith, join me as I push
the limits with time, budget and creativity with the Garden Home Challenge, exclusively
on eHow Home. Hey, David. Hey, Allen, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, doing
great. Looks like you're making the change. Yeah, we're getting everything underway. You
know, I've been hearing all this about this box change-out, and the need for it. And them
changing suddenly, the power company. What's going on with this? The power company -- you
got different entities that you gotta make happy at the time. We're just outside of city
limits. The old box we had up there was considered an overhead-underground meter. Most the time,
the city will come out and inspect -- they'll turn it over to Entergy. So it was fine for
the city? It's fine for the city, because that's an approved box that Entergy tells
them "Oh, it's okay -- we can go ahead and do that." I put that one up there, but since
we're in the county here, we have to deal directly with Entergy, and they said "Nah,
we don't want that box -- we want this box." Oh. And is part of it because we're underground
-- we're bringing our power lines underground and not overground? The other box was rated
for under and over. This is strictly an underground feed with the hook-ups here -- as you can
see, the pipe coming up from the underground service. Sure. Right, right. Yeah. Well, I
didn't realize that I was gonna complicate things with my need to have all the power
underground. I don't like to see power lines. Oh sure, I understand. And like you said,
it makes a nice, clean installation. And like I said, the meters on this side, and the wires
this side. I checked with eight supply houses in the city -- everybody had it reversed.
They had the meter over here, and the hook-ups over here. Well, we have our pipe on that
side. I had to order this one from Houston just to get it in. Oh, man. So they said,
hey, manufactures -- we make it. It's just getting it. I see, yeah. So, we got it now,
and we're proceeding with everything else. Well, I appreciate you getting it out here
and moving it along, so we don't keep delaying the project. And, you know, we'll be able
to bring our deck on around here too, so you're mounting it at the height that they require.
At the height that they require, yep. You gotta have 5 foot to center -- the breaker
can't be over 6 foot to center. Yeah. So, we're good to go. Now, it's not gonna be a
problem for the meter reader to come under the deck, is it, to see it? Oh no, sir. Yeah,
yeah. No, sir. Good, good. They'll be able come right along. Yeah, excellent. Alright.
To finish tying everything in, I've been at probably at least an hour or so now, getting
everything mounted, tying the wires in, making it pretty, laying in everything -- I've got
another couple of hours. So when we'll we actually have power in there? We've been running
on temporary. And will today be the big day? Today, Entergy is scheduled to come out today.
Alright! They've got their string line in, so then we can start temporary power in there
and get some plugs and switches and some lights on -- power up air conditioners. Oh, exciting!
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