Aaron the electrician came to fix the generator and complete the installation of the electricuity supply from the control box on the outside garage wall.He sent ahead two apprentices to complete the wiring job. General consensus is that ants are a problem both in the genertor controls themselves and in the separate controller on the wall that switches the generator on and off when the grid goes down and comes back up again. Campbell Watt in Christchurch is sending up a replacement part for the up/down control box. Marcus is gung ho to defeat the ants using RipCord – the chemical that Mr Hills, across the road, was cavalier in spraying the wood surrounding the gutters and wqs disabled for the rest of his life, decades.

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