{New Power Wiring to Our Gazebo}

Renovations in itself are often a handful but there are always surprises when you own a home. Already last year we had no power to the electric pump for watering the garden. And for the electric grill in our gazebo, neither light nor fan... There was obviously a problem but it was hard to locate. Last year when husband Pieter did write the book about his life, for daughter Liz, during the summer months, there was no need for watering the garden as it rained enough. But now we installed a new fan after the gazebo got painted and we could not even test it... The job had to be done and after searching for the culprit, under the gazebo, where our contractor in 1990 had made the connection, Pieter decided to just ignore it and run a complete new power wiring from the house out to the gazebo and to the back of the greenhouse and pump. 

The job got done!

Power wiring got dug in, alongside the walkway to the gazebo.

In front of the gazebo some rodents had dug burrows underneath those washed concrete tiles and  they sunk into a slanted position.

Almost done... Now filling up the burrows with concrete, in front of the gazebo where you see the left planter box tilting to the left.

By the way, the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof in Aged Copper is already on the gazebo here!

From Interlock Metal Roofing (click it)

Also the painting job is finished.

Now the new power line will make using the new fan and light + electric grill possible again.

The culprit for sure was that somewhere there was a weak connection or maybe they did fuse some wires inappropriately...

Yes, we now go back to November 1990 when the contractor finished our home.

We were at the time working and living in Indonesia.

We received a letter from our friends who kept an eye on the construction and they mentioned: 'The gazebo is up and roofed...' 

I recall reading that very sentence THREE times!

WHAT? A gazebo, we only had discussed that but we already had brochures from Pennsylvania for building our own wooden one after we finished work in Indonesia.

We were very anxiously coming home...

There it was; in the middle of the garden, in front of our pond!

Through our veranda window you see it.

That was the wrong spot! 

Pieter ordered to have it moved, adjacent to the house and in line with the veranda steps for a walkway from there towards the gazebo.

Walking such a long distance with a tray for coffee or tea or whatever on it, was not practical.

So they did move it with a huge crane and we split the bill...

That's my Dad on a stretcher taking his nap and me in a chair in November of 1990 when Dad helped us move in...

Don't you agree that this was an odd spot for our gazebo?

Even though we had not ordered this gazebo, we liked its construction and we used it for barbecues with friends and neighbors or for breakfast and lots of tea and coffee times with family and friends.

So that was the history of our gazebo and by moving this entire building they must have hit the wiring some how and making it a shaky connection at times. But we got new power wiring now with a constant working connection.