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OK I'll start it out. I'm doing the brakes on my Silverado. It's got lose to 200,000 miles and the rear have never been done so it should be a challenge.So what everyone else up to.
Got a bunch of work work to do and get ready for the electricians on monday. So not much in the way of fun time.
But it will be nice to get the new panel in, a transfer switch for the generator, a sub panel for the garage and several other things the sparky's are going to take care of.
Brent how come you not doing it yourself.? From what i know of you this is well within your pay grade. Lol.Just a portable gas powered. Having a 30 amp plug put on the side of the house to plug it into and a manual transfer switch.
Will have it run to a few essential circuits in the house, like the well pump, the fridge/freezers.
The power used to be pretty reliable out here but we have had a few several hour long outages and one that lasted a few days this winter.
Will be nice to be able to just keep the basics going.
It's a 7500watt genny, so won't run everything, but will keep us going. It's loud as all get out though, so need to research ways to quiet it down.
I'm stoked to get the subpanel in the garage as well. Been way too long with having to run tools off of extension chords.
There's some wacky stuff going on in that main panel, and it needs replacing in order to hook up a transfer switch. It's definitely late 70's vintage.
Requires pulling permits, having the electric company do a disconnect, etc... WAY above my pay grade.
I'm comfortable replacing switches, sockets, and running new lines from a sub panel, but this is one thing I think is best left to the pro's.
I'm so looking forward to having it done though. Kudos to Sharon for finally finding an electrician that will come out to the isolated desert compound.