Almost burned the house down!
And I am NOT kidding! I was up at the cabin, supposedly for a week, to clean up the place before the contractors came to do the bathroom and flooring. I turned on the heat pump, and then decided to turn on the heater in the bathroom to warm it up a bit. A few hours later, I lost power to the cabin. I first thought that it was an outage, but the power company called to let me know that there was plenty of power coming to the pole. So, I had an electrician come out and he determined the following: 1. I had two 100 amp services going to each side of the building, but 2. I only had 100 amps coming into the main panel. All of this means I needed to upgrade to 200amp services as soon as could be done. I did do some investigation and the cost would range between $2500 to $5000 to upgrade the service. I got a quote, which I agreed to (I mean, whaddyagonnado!) and waited to hear when things would start rolling. Turns out, I had to call the power company to turn power off, at wh...
