Quiet day

The builders didn’t turn up today because I guess they’re allowing the columns that they set the last time they were on site to cure and gain strength. However, Thomas, their surveyor, did come on site and carefully checked the work that had been done, presumably to make absolutely sure that everything’s in exactly the right place and to the correct dimensions in advance of the next stage.

I also found out why my electrical supply failed. I’ve used the same two 50 metre extension leads that I did previously when I originally connected my caravan to my neighbour’s house but they came up just a few metres short. I’d therefore temporarily bridged the gap with a third which has 50 metres of smaller diameter cable wound on a spool. I’d only unwound a few metres and left the remainder on the spool and these two things together meant that the cable was becoming hot enough in use to trip the spool’s thermal breaker.

Although I’d checked this at the time and reset all of the breaker buttons on all three of the spools, even after I’d unwound the hot cable from the spool, its breaker still took several minutes to reset, so this was why I couldn’t get the system up and running again at the time. So it appears that EDF wasn’t at fault on this occasion, it was a technical failure in my cable that was responsible.

I made up another 20 metre extension with larger diameter cable today and all is now working as it should. I still have an electrical problem to sort out though. I hadn’t realised that I left the light on all day over the caravan’s sink and although when I did spot it after several hours it turned off OK, it wouldn’t turn back on again. So as well as trying to cut the grass tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll have to buy and install a new small strip light. And I thought I’d have nothing to do living in my caravan once work started on my house 🙁