2 August 2015

Went up to Burlington for the morning to visit Alverta and test the limits on our credit cards at Lowe’s. Couldn’t find any plain old ground fault interrupter (GFI) circuit breakers, so ended up getting Square D QO Combination AFCI (arc-fault circuit interrupter – which every electrician I’ve talked to say they hate) 20 amp plug on neutral circuit breakers for the shop outlet circuits.  I think they charge $3 a word for those critters… and it looks like we’re going to need a total of 15 of them beasts!  Hold on to your wallets!  Back at Fern Lake by noon.  After lunch, got my daily workout by disassembling all the staging on the south side of the garage and moving it by hand over to the woodshed.  Then used the Kubota to bring all the spare staging up from the backyard.  Both evolutions so that Jimmy Ploof will have room to work tomorrow.  Finished wiring the shop planer circuit and one outlet on one of the shop circuits.  When I turned on the circuit breaker my tester showed two green lights – meaning that I correctly wired the new-fangled AFCI plug on neutral circuit breaker and the outlet.  Woo, hoo, who’s your daddy now?  While drilling holes in ceiling joists for the next electrical wiring run, am pretty sure I discovered that the main electrical feed from the meter to the panel (a bundle of wires 2″ in diameter, i.e., not easily moved) is under where the half bath toilet drain needs to go.  Suspect we’re going to have to solve that conflict the old fashioned way: dueling pistols at dawn wielded by Dennis and Glen. Sean and I will be the seconds…  The lake temperature is up to A-T, which is just about perfect.  The lake level has fallen to 10½″ below the top of the dock, undoubtedly due to all the milfoil the harvesting crew has been removing.