Okay, now that I’ve got a bit of my senses back, let me try again.

The electrician we hired to get the work done has screwed up. Pretty bad, too.

He was working for several hours on Monday, putting in a new circuit breaker box, and putting a meter on the outside of our house… basically doing all the inside work to change our house from 60amp service to 200amp service. He did some finishing touches yesterday, and the power company was supposed to come out today to run a bigger powerline in from the street to the all new system just installed.

Well, the man from the power company did come today, but we still have 60amp service. Why? Because the electrician installed everything in such a way that the powerline would have to run across our neighbor’s property, and this is apparently not allowed. So, no go. The line has to come in from the other side of the house.

End result? We have a huge hole in the side of our house where the power line come through the wall to the circuit breaker box, holes through the wall of our house in the upstairs which were to support the powerline coming in from the street, and a series of screwholes in the siding all the way up the side of the house. Or, in other words, a very ugly sight. Oh, and we already paid the electrician, so I am hoping that he was sincere when he said he would stand by his work. I wish I hadn’t given him that check yesterday. It really bothers me that I hired him to do a job, and he didn’t bother to find out whether or not he was doing it right.

He said he was going to stop by the house this evening to pick up a few of the things he had temporarily installed. Hopefully he’ll be able to call me before then, but if not at least he’ll be there, and I can find out what he plans to do about all this.

I think I just want him to give me my money and go away. He’s done enough damage as it is. You could certainly pray for us in this situation if you happen to think of it. It would be appreciated.