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Plunged into darkness

posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 08:57pm on 04/02/2009 under , ,
Tonight just as my daughter was finishing her shower the power went in the house. All electricity out, I dried Rowan off in the dark as [livejournal.com profile] sammywol examined the trip switches. All remained closed and we rang the ESB.

So here we wait - in the dark - for an electrician to appear. I hope it's not something that will require either digging up the pavement or digging into our savings. I'm already wincing at the pensions levy today.
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posted by [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com at 09:31pm on 04/02/2009
We lost a chunk of ours last week - but a nice electrician restored it - agreeing, however, with me that the house does need rewiring! Hope yours is easily sorted.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:13pm on 04/02/2009
Power back now! The lovely ESB man gave us a new fuse, as we apparently had been surviving on a 50 amp instead of a 63 amp for the last 8 years.


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posted by [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com at 10:27pm on 04/02/2009
Goodness knows what we're running on!
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posted by [identity profile] marzut.livejournal.com at 10:18pm on 04/02/2009
Wow, that's pretty good service, recession must be increasing efficeny
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:21pm on 04/02/2009
I was impressed too. My heart sank when he said 'the bad news is it's on your side', indicating that the problem was inside the house and not in the ESB meter or line coming into the house, but he said he had a spare fuse if I wanted to put it in. He wasn't going to touch it himself, presumably because of regs and insurance requirements.

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