wire in conduit in trench

Dale came over this afternoon and we got the wire for the house electric service in the conduit and in the trench. Nothing is hooked up yet. Tomorrow, the trench job will be inspected and if we pass, then we can start hooking stuff up.


Technically, when you use conduit (not strictly necessary in this case - but we would have had to dig the trench deeper), you're supposed to assemble the conduit and pull the wire through it. But this wire is way too big - it's for 200 amp service - and we don't have the equipment to pull wire that size thru it, so we assembled the conduit around the wire.


It's been raining and the trench was full of water at the lower end. We had to do some more digging, so it got to be another big, muddy mess. There was no point in trying to wait for the rain to stop and the trench to dry out - that won't happen 'til around the end of June.