Electric line and septic tank

Another busy, grey day on he house site. I got up early to cut down a few trees that were in the way of the power line.

Today, we installed the electrical line. This runs from a private poll installed by Normand (the excavator) and Camille the electrician. Bell contractors came along to install the public pole (in Frelighsburg, it's Bell and not Hydro that installs the poll). The private poll holds the meter and is where the line runs into the ground. It then goes across the driveway and up the hill along with the phone line and the line between the septic tank and tile bed.

Normand also trucked in generous amounts of sand to bury the septic tank, to make a bed for the French drains, bury the power line (need 2 feet of sand around power line), and just clean up the site. It covers up a lot of the mud.

The electrician also set up a temporary electric panel for the builders. Hopefully, it will be switched on by Hydro by the end of the month. I had orignally wanted the power cable to enter through the foundation, but the electrician figured it would be better to go through the wall above ground. A vistit from Alex the builder/carpenter changed that. He preferred the foundation option. I'm now considering renting a drill to bore through the foundation.