Lakin Farm

I am part way through building a garage next to the house. It’s not for our car, but all the junk we have.

When digging the foundations I took great care no to disturb/damage any of the underground electricity cables that run to all the nearby buildings.

All went well and the base of the garage was laid and, as you can see in this picture, the start of the walls.

Then about four weeks ago the power to our house went off. None of the other houses nearby were affected even though they are on the same supply.

It turned out that, despite my best efforts, the electricity cable feeding our house had been squashed by the garage foundation and it had eventually fried itself to death.

When the chap from the power company came to fix the problem, he explained firstly how stupid I had been putting the garage where I had, and then that the ground around the garage had the potential to be ‘live’ and was therefore very dangerous.

Whilst he was telling me this I touched one of the garage walls and got a tingling sensation up my arm.

I kept a straight face and just said ‘Really?’