Friday, February 6, 2015

Good morning crew,

So, yesterday I paid an electrician $295 to come to the house and tell me I had some bad wiring. Well worth the money. The problem is that the bad wiring is buried in the back yard. This problem is further compounded by the 20 inches of snow piled in the back yard.

This makes it difficult to get to the wiring and fix it.

I was all resigned to spend the next three months until Spring opening and closing the garage door manually when the electrician suggested I run an extension cord from the house to the garage for power.

He said, "All you need to do is attach a second male end to an extension cord and then plug it into box running into the garage. Basically you're by-passing the problem."

"Is that safe?" I asked.

"Weeeell," he responded confidently, "it's not exactly code, so I can't do it for you, but if I were in your situation that's what I would do."

So now I have a "hot" extension cord lying in the slushy snow in between the house and the garage. It has only been one day, but so far I haven't noticed any problems other than an odd tingling sensation while I was shoveling the back walk this morning.

It's probably nothing. But I did notice the hair on my legs has started to fall out.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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