Today we’re getting set up to do a house wash. It’s raining lightly. We start putting detergent on the left rear corner of the house when I hear pops and see flashes out of the corner of my eye. The meter is sparking! Long story short, I ran to the door and asked them all to come out and bring the dog.
The husband inspected the burn on the house and he thinks it’s been that way for awhile because the hole is scary deep and the lights inside flickered which has happened during the last few rains. We don’t spray within a few feet of electrical anything and will actually hand wash particular spots on a house, but the moral of the story, for me anyway, is always take pics of all things electrical if for no other reason you know what you’re getting into.
After that I drove an hour and 15 to look at a commercial job and ended up turning it down. Now I gotta drive an hour home and feel like I burned a bridge with a sizeable development company. What a day… I’m just really grateful no one was hurt today.