Utilities questions

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by greg42

It's quite safe and it doesn't smell. (At least it doesn't smell unless there's a problem.)

Since I can imagine her calling the utility company, we need to clarify that she might smell it briefly when she turns on a gas stove and it's nothing to be concerned about.

[greg42]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Since I can imagine her calling the utility company, we need to clarify that she might smell it briefly when she turns on a gas stove and it's nothing to be concerned about.

Oh, that's true. I now only experience this at other people's homes on occasion. The prior owners here had left a nearly new electric stove and we haven't replaced it. The other person here at home is, heh, afraid of the gas.

[ditchdigger]

Originally Posted by Hopes

When a new development is built with buried power lines, telephone poles usually replace those lines in the near future.

With all due respect, I've buried a lot of powerlines in the past 30 years, and I'm not aware of any of them having been replaced with overhead service. Why do you think that?

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by greg42

Oh, that's true. I now only experience this at other people's homes on occasion. The prior owners here had left a nearly new electric stove and we haven't replaced it. The other person here at home is, heh, afraid of the gas.

That's hillarious! You have my condolences.

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

With all due respect, I've buried a lot of powerlines in the past 30 years, and I'm not aware of any of them having been replaced with overhead service. Why do you think that?

I once lived in a neighborhood with buried powerlines that were later replaced with telephone poles.

Maybe it's not common. Maybe you're not aware of what happened to them 10 years later. I don't know.

It doesn't matter. It's not likely she could afford to rent in a neighborhood with buried power lines anyway.

[ditchdigger]

I once lived in a neighborhood with buried powerlines that were later replaced with telephone poles.

Maybe it's not common. Maybe you're not aware of what happened to them 10 years later. I don't know.

It's uncommon enough that I'd love to know the rest of the story. And I do know what happened to the ones I've put in, (Nothing. They're fine.), because I'll occasionally go back and take a look at places I've worked, just to see how they're aging.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

It's uncommon enough that I'd love to know the rest of the story. And I do know what happened to the ones I've put in, (Nothing. They're fine.), because I'll occasionally go back and take a look at places I've worked, just to see how they're aging.

Forgive me. I'm an idiot. I just talked to my husband. He says that the buried lines were temporary electricity for the pre-construction lots in the development. Since I lived in one of the first houses built, most of the lots had that metal box at the street for each lot. I thought they were underground powerlines that were replaced with telephone poles because the development eventually did have telephone poles when the construction was completed. This was a long time ago, btw.

[ditchdigger]

Forgive me.

You're forgiven.

(And I didn't even quote the "I'm an idiot" part. )

(Uh, well, I guess now I did, but it wasn't on purpose. Honest!)