{New Power Wiring to Our Gazebo} 2013

by Guest Sat Aug 17, 2013 1:32 am

2013 2013 2013 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Renovations in itself are often a handful but there are always surprises when you own a home. Already last year we had no power to the electric pump for watering the garden. And for the electric grill in our gazebo, neither light nor fan... There was obviously a problem but it was hard to locate. Last year when husband Pieter did write the book about his life, for daughter Liz, during the summer months, there was no need for watering the garden as it rained enough. But now we installed a new fan after the gazebo got painted and we could not even test it... The job had to be done and after searching for the culprit, under the gazebo, where our contractor in 1990 had made the connection, Pieter decided to just ignore it and run a complete new power wiring from the house out to the gazebo and to the back of the greenhouse and pump. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FEFHmaCpNos/Ud-R0sBjaCI/AAAAAAAATFc/2ufTj7zyNjc/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FEFHmaCpNos/Ud-R0sBjaCI/AAAAAAAATFc/2ufTj7zyNjc/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The job got done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Power wiring got dug in, alongside the walkway to the gazebo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In front of the gazebo some rodents had dug burrows underneath those washed concrete tiles and  they sunk into a slanted position.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LE641RSGkeU/Ud-SRjXs0DI/AAAAAAAATFk/m0-cVTJuLo8/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LE641RSGkeU/Ud-SRjXs0DI/AAAAAAAATFk/m0-cVTJuLo8/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Almost done... Now filling up the burrows with concrete, in front of the gazebo where you see the left planter box tilting to the left.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NdhEskYWdUs/Ud-S8W-uUPI/AAAAAAAATFw/j8Y_EXrPuEY/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NdhEskYWdUs/Ud-S8W-uUPI/AAAAAAAATFw/j8Y_EXrPuEY/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the way, the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof</span> in Aged Copper is already on the gazebo here!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also the painting job is finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now the new power line will make using the new fan and light + electric grill possible again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The culprit for sure was that somewhere there was a weak connection or maybe they did fuse some wires inappropriately...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-LSVmAUyEE/Ud-TaVbJUlI/AAAAAAAATF4/HQJSmLF4z2E/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-LSVmAUyEE/Ud-TaVbJUlI/AAAAAAAATF4/HQJSmLF4z2E/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, we now go back to November 1990 when the contractor finished our home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were at the time working and living in Indonesia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We received a letter from our friends who kept an eye on the construction and they mentioned: 'The gazebo is up and roofed...' </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I recall reading that very sentence THREE times!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHAT? A gazebo, we only had discussed that but we already had brochures from Pennsylvania for building our own wooden one after we finished work in Indonesia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were very anxiously coming home...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There it was; in the middle of the garden, in front of our pond!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Through our veranda window you see it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5oVw1Hum21A/Ud-UvZQXsWI/AAAAAAAATGI/3qZJwhEE5vE/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5oVw1Hum21A/Ud-UvZQXsWI/AAAAAAAATGI/3qZJwhEE5vE/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That was the wrong spot! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pieter ordered to have it moved, adjacent to the house and in line with the veranda steps for a walkway from there towards the gazebo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MouR6CGyasQ/Ud-VEvyOpDI/AAAAAAAATGQ/Es4QXVHKsNc/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MouR6CGyasQ/Ud-VEvyOpDI/AAAAAAAATGQ/Es4QXVHKsNc/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Walking such a long distance with a tray for coffee or tea or whatever on it, was not practical.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So they did move it with a huge crane and we split the bill...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pAcoeLupxLY/Ud-VaG5uhII/AAAAAAAATGY/hqhTZspMif4/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pAcoeLupxLY/Ud-VaG5uhII/AAAAAAAATGY/hqhTZspMif4/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's my Dad on a stretcher taking his nap and me in a chair in November of 1990 when Dad helped us move in...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't you agree that this was an odd spot for our gazebo?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kl6cxu694PA/Ud-VteD_HpI/AAAAAAAATGg/JHq7R4GhSs4/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kl6cxu694PA/Ud-VteD_HpI/AAAAAAAATGg/JHq7R4GhSs4/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" width="404" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even though we had not ordered this gazebo, we liked its construction and we used it for barbecues with friends and neighbors or for breakfast and lots of tea and coffee times with family and friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So that was the history of our gazebo and by moving this entire building they must have hit the wiring some how and making it a shaky connection at times. But we got new power wiring now with a constant working connection. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><center><a href="https://plus.google.com/100490423051043047646/about" rel="author" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mariette on Google+</span></a></center></div><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Renovations in itself are often a handful but there are always surprises when you own a home. Already last year we had no power to the electric pump for watering the garden. And for the electric grill in our gazebo, neither light nor fan... There was obviously a problem but it was hard to locate. Last year when husband Pieter did write the book about his life, for daughter Liz, during the summer months, there was no need for watering the garden as it rained enough. But now we installed a new fan after the gazebo got painted and we could not even test it... The job had to be done and after searching for the culprit, under the gazebo, where our contractor in 1990 had made the connection, Pieter decided to just ignore it and run a complete new power wiring from the house out to the gazebo and to the back of the greenhouse and pump. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FEFHmaCpNos/Ud-R0sBjaCI/AAAAAAAATFc/2ufTj7zyNjc/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FEFHmaCpNos/Ud-R0sBjaCI/AAAAAAAATFc/2ufTj7zyNjc/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The job got done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Power wiring got dug in, alongside the walkway to the gazebo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In front of the gazebo some rodents had dug burrows underneath those washed concrete tiles and  they sunk into a slanted position.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LE641RSGkeU/Ud-SRjXs0DI/AAAAAAAATFk/m0-cVTJuLo8/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LE641RSGkeU/Ud-SRjXs0DI/AAAAAAAATFk/m0-cVTJuLo8/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Almost done... Now filling up the burrows with concrete, in front of the gazebo where you see the left planter box tilting to the left.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NdhEskYWdUs/Ud-S8W-uUPI/AAAAAAAATFw/j8Y_EXrPuEY/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NdhEskYWdUs/Ud-S8W-uUPI/AAAAAAAATFw/j8Y_EXrPuEY/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the way, the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof</span> in Aged Copper is already on the gazebo here!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also the painting job is finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now the new power line will make using the new fan and light + electric grill possible again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The culprit for sure was that somewhere there was a weak connection or maybe they did fuse some wires inappropriately...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-LSVmAUyEE/Ud-TaVbJUlI/AAAAAAAATF4/HQJSmLF4z2E/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q-LSVmAUyEE/Ud-TaVbJUlI/AAAAAAAATF4/HQJSmLF4z2E/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, we now go back to November 1990 when the contractor finished our home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were at the time working and living in Indonesia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We received a letter from our friends who kept an eye on the construction and they mentioned: 'The gazebo is up and roofed...' </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I recall reading that very sentence THREE times!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHAT? A gazebo, we only had discussed that but we already had brochures from Pennsylvania for building our own wooden one after we finished work in Indonesia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were very anxiously coming home...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There it was; in the middle of the garden, in front of our pond!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Through our veranda window you see it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5oVw1Hum21A/Ud-UvZQXsWI/AAAAAAAATGI/3qZJwhEE5vE/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5oVw1Hum21A/Ud-UvZQXsWI/AAAAAAAATGI/3qZJwhEE5vE/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That was the wrong spot! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pieter ordered to have it moved, adjacent to the house and in line with the veranda steps for a walkway from there towards the gazebo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MouR6CGyasQ/Ud-VEvyOpDI/AAAAAAAATGQ/Es4QXVHKsNc/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MouR6CGyasQ/Ud-VEvyOpDI/AAAAAAAATGQ/Es4QXVHKsNc/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Walking such a long distance with a tray for coffee or tea or whatever on it, was not practical.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So they did move it with a huge crane and we split the bill...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pAcoeLupxLY/Ud-VaG5uhII/AAAAAAAATGY/hqhTZspMif4/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pAcoeLupxLY/Ud-VaG5uhII/AAAAAAAATGY/hqhTZspMif4/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's my Dad on a stretcher taking his nap and me in a chair in November of 1990 when Dad helped us move in...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't you agree that this was an odd spot for our gazebo?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kl6cxu694PA/Ud-VteD_HpI/AAAAAAAATGg/JHq7R4GhSs4/s1600/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kl6cxu694PA/Ud-VteD_HpI/AAAAAAAATGg/JHq7R4GhSs4/s640/Gazebo+Power+Wiring+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+8.jpg" width="404" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even though we had not ordered this gazebo, we liked its construction and we used it for barbecues with friends and neighbors or for breakfast and lots of tea and coffee times with family and friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So that was the history of our gazebo and by moving this entire building they must have hit the wiring some how and making it a shaky connection at times. But we got new power wiring now with a constant working connection. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><center><a href="https://plus.google.com/100490423051043047646/about" rel="author" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mariette on Google+</span></a></center></div><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>