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connector…

23 Tuesday Sep 2025

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so, we thought the problem with the electricity had been solved with the replacement of the two fuses last week…

apparently, not so…

Saturday and Monday it happened again and lasted for two hours the last time… we weren’t able to get in touch with the electrician so called Hydro… of course we couldn’t get to a real person but left a power outage message… not long after, a real person did call and advised a technician would be out in the next while…

they arrived around dusk, and of course, the power had come back on, lol… that makes it much more difficult for them to figure out the problem…

after checking the recently replaced fuses, which were working properly, they checked the wires on the outside and discovered a connector that was hot and shouldn’t have been…

power was turned off (on purpose!), the connector was replaced, and the power turned back on…

hoping this has actually fixed the problem…

meter…

26 Wednesday Mar 2025

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last Thursday a person from Manitoba Hydro arrived at the door…

I was a bit surprised, because I was expecting an inspector on Friday to review, and hopefully, approve the gas hot water tank installation…

but the Thursday person was here to change the Hydro meter…

after they changed it they advised that it was wifi enabled and they would be able to read it from outside the house once it is hooked up to their system…

I was a bit worried because when I looked at the meter a while later it was still showing zeros across the board… but, by Friday, it was starting to move… woohoo…

and then on Friday, the inspector arrived late, but approved the work, whew… which is kind of good considering it was over a month since the tank was installed, lol…

inspection…

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

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so, on Thursday, the Manitoba Hydro inspector came to check the installation of the new furnace…

sadly, we didn’t pass inspection…

as he worked he shared what he was looking at and pointed out a few issues which he felt needed to be corrected…

once he was finished everything got written up and I had to sign the paperwork…

apparently the furnace company has thirty days to make the adjustments at which time I have to call and have them back to test it again…

the good news is that none of the items mean the furnace isn’t working, and because we previously had a high efficiency furnace we don’t have to have any adjustments made to the gas hot water heater until it needs to be replaced;-)… phew…

now on to the adjustments and recheck…

calls…

21 Tuesday Jul 2020

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this morning I got a phone call from “Manitoba Hydro” advising that my power was going to be shut off in thirty minutes and then suggested I push a button and speak with someone about my unpaid account…

I hung up as my payments are taken out of my bank automatically… but it still made me nervous… I went to Hydro’s website and read their notification that scams are currently happening… made me feel much better… I also reported the call…

last week I had a call about someone using my social security number… again, I hung up…

usually if I pick up the phone and don’t hear someone right away I hang up… then there is no stress, lol…

should have done that for these two calls;-)…