Finally, the Electrical Trench Comes and Goes

The ground work contractor who did the water line showed up on Thursday (5/25/06) to dig the electrical trench. The trench ended up messing up the driveway a bit, but we were able to put conduit in for not only electrical, but for phone and cable as well.

Here are pictures of the trench at the house.

Here's a picture down the driveway.

Here's a photo of the trench from the driveway to the pole. Now we need to get the utility easement recorded. (You can see the new water line exposed in this picture!)

Here are the conduits on either end of the driveway. The yellow rope coming out of the 2" conduit is the pull-string for the cable. The phone wire has already been run through the conduit.

And here is the trench all filled in, except of the work pit where the conduit needs to be exposed.

In the end, we paid half of the cost for the conduit and trenching labor. The front lot owner is paying the other half plus the hook-up fee ($725) for moving the overhead to underground. I suppose I could have fought more, but then the contractor wouldn't have been paid. In addition, this chapter is just about over and that's such a relief.