Monday morning, week 4.

By our original schedule, we were supposed to be done with this job the previous Friday-but we all know how that went.
We pushed through a long weekend of office work so that we could head back up the mountain today, and so it was that we rolled away from our place well before sunup this fine Monday morning.
Denise once again drove so that I could attempt to make some progress putting together some bids as we bounced down all the rough roads Arizona has to offer us. 😄😄🙄

We made a stop at a customers property in Paulden to check on their progress. We had previously Installed a pretty robust power system for them- you can actually check it out here-

Now their construction is finally catching up to their power system and we will be installing the panels and beginning building wiring on their amazing custom home.
Here is the 400 amp main panel we had previously installed on their power shed.

From there we will be installing sub panels on the detached house.

This couple has battled every sort of struggle and setback you can imagine for several years trying to get their dream home built. It’s awesome to see them finally getting close to the finish line!

After we arrived on the job up on Mingus Mountain, we spent several more hours on the computers and doing conference calls dealing with a couple of exciting projects we have coming up.

Then, we finally had the ability to get out and do some real work. Denise went over to the generator shed and worked her magic on straightening out some underground conduits that had been poorly installed so that we could connect our above ground conduits to them.
I worked on the other end, which had even more installation issue challenges, and did something I hate having to do-I installed two flexible metal conduit sections from the PVC to connect to our gutter.

I hate this crap.
But I had no option as the severely mis-aligned underground conduits that someone else installed left no option to use hard conduit.
I suppose there is actually nothing wrong with it when it’s used properly, but it seems the solar industry is in love with flexible conduit strung all over the place because it’s fast and cheap and it drives me crazy how terrible it looks.
My dislike of flex probably comes from my commercial and industrial background where this stuff is frowned upon and clean hard pipe work is a must. My mild OCD probably doesn’t help either. 😄😄

Anyway, that’s about all we got done Monday-except we staged a bunch of parts, tools and equipment for tomorrow which should allow us to have a kick ass day progress wise.
We shall see if we manage to kick ass or get our ass kicked. 😄😄