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Ok, first this is NOT my home. Everything I'm posting is relayed from a friend, but I'm trying to figure it out.
--Sparks, Black Smoke and Charred Outlet Has Led to 3 Rooms Having Limited Power.
--Only *half* the house has electricity, and NOT the half powering the furnace, washer/dryer. Ran a long extension cord for the Fridge to an outlet , but furnace isn't so easy.
--5 minutes before electrician arrived, EVERYTHING that had been off........came back on. The lights, the washer started filling back up, the furnace came on, etc.
He did a lot of 'trouble shooting' and by process of elimination, it became obvious that every socket or light that was off, was also on the 220 side. *which explains no dryer, fridge and furnace*>
He called Power company---THEY came out and found nothing amiss on the pole...the poles all the way down the street, outside, my connection box, NOTHING.
The power has STAYED on this entire time.
He is AFRAID that whatever is wrong could be underground....and doesn't know if the power company pasy for this or if the homeowner.
--It stayed on from yesterday around 1:00 til sometime in the middle of the night. Guy came at 8 30 this morning and as he went to take off the meter cover, it CAME BACK ON.
Meter guy came and said it's good.
it has stayed on all day
They are calling it a mystery.
--Well, AS PER USUAL, he went out, 'jiggled' the meter cover and viola' it came back on.
He is convinced it's IN the Meter Itself..."meter socket"? and this expense is the burden of the homeowner, not the power company.
He has "rigged' the box so we have all 110 power, (which means HEAT), but no 220, which means no dryer.
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So, my question - why is half the house 220 and the other half 110?
--Sparks, Black Smoke and Charred Outlet Has Led to 3 Rooms Having Limited Power.
--Only *half* the house has electricity, and NOT the half powering the furnace, washer/dryer. Ran a long extension cord for the Fridge to an outlet , but furnace isn't so easy.
--5 minutes before electrician arrived, EVERYTHING that had been off........came back on. The lights, the washer started filling back up, the furnace came on, etc.
He did a lot of 'trouble shooting' and by process of elimination, it became obvious that every socket or light that was off, was also on the 220 side. *which explains no dryer, fridge and furnace*>
He called Power company---THEY came out and found nothing amiss on the pole...the poles all the way down the street, outside, my connection box, NOTHING.
The power has STAYED on this entire time.
He is AFRAID that whatever is wrong could be underground....and doesn't know if the power company pasy for this or if the homeowner.
--It stayed on from yesterday around 1:00 til sometime in the middle of the night. Guy came at 8 30 this morning and as he went to take off the meter cover, it CAME BACK ON.
Meter guy came and said it's good.
it has stayed on all day
They are calling it a mystery.
--Well, AS PER USUAL, he went out, 'jiggled' the meter cover and viola' it came back on.
He is convinced it's IN the Meter Itself..."meter socket"? and this expense is the burden of the homeowner, not the power company.
He has "rigged' the box so we have all 110 power, (which means HEAT), but no 220, which means no dryer.
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So, my question - why is half the house 220 and the other half 110?