Electrical Passes (Day 533)

Sure enough, we passed our final electrical inspection on Wednesday afternoon. It was a bit anticlimactic since I knew exactly what had to be fixed and fixed it with Gary Estes' help (Craighead Electric). However, we got to play that "Chicken Game" with the inspection department, which is always fun. Electrical inspections are handled by the Dept. of Labor and Industries (aka L&I) out of Port Angeles, not by our county. So there is a whole different process and bureaucracy to deal with. If you call in the inspection request on a weekend, it gets logged in on Monday morning and assigned to an inspector on Tuesday morning, unless of course there were too many requests for that day (of course). After calling in to check on the date/time of our inspection, we were told that our inspector (Mike Anderson) had us as eighth on is list for Wednesday, probably in the afternoon. Well that narrowed it down to 12-4 pm.

I was helping a friend build a deck nearby, so there was no one around the new house as lunch time approached. Not wanting to miss and get charged extra for this appointment, I went to the new house and busied myself with miscellaneous chores, of which there are thousands. Nancy came back from picking up tile in Sequim at 1:30, so she got to house sit (and garden) while I went back to the deck job. Not a half hour later, here comes the inspector. Back to the house, just in time to see him finish and put the much hollowed "final inspection" sticker on the electrical panel. Woosh, we're ready to use some serious kilovolts now.

Hopefully we can schedule the final County inspection for Monday, April 26th. This is the even more sought-after "Occupancy Permit", which entitles us to a $6500 credit from Uncle Sam if we qualify by May 1st. Smells like furniture money to me. More later, Michael