Although Ed and Tiffany's house has many fine features, outside electrical outlets and lighting aren't among them. When some of the family were here to help many months ago, we did manage to install a front yard lamppost and some electrical outlets along the way but the back yard has remained woefully unlit. Well, since we have had unseasonably nice weather and since Ed and I both had a day off while the rest of the family didn't (thus precluding any family outings or other "random events"), Ed and I tackled the job of getting some lighting and outlets in their back yard.
The groundwork had already been laid those many months ago with new circuit breakers and leads to the back, but since the next thing to be done was install conduit and the first piece of conduit had to go up 12 to 15 feet, it presented an initial obstacle. Once we got going, though, we were able to lay in about 60 feet of conduit including 2 gable light fixture boxes, 1 patio light fixture box, 3 outlet boxes, 3 outside corner juntion boxes, 2 inside corner curves, and several miscellaneous curves. Home Depot not having the parts we needed, slowed us down a little and finally the early onset of night (it is still February) stopped us from completing the task. Okay, my sore back contributed to stopping as well.
We figure the remaining conduit should be an easy afternoon and then we'll get to tackle the job of pulling the wires. Ed and I figure we'll get the whole thing done just in time for daylight savings time to make the backyard lighting superfluous.
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