I am over at the office (Marks house) picking up Mark to make him put in an honest days work. 
We have a lot to do today…pour cement (carry it up 12 feet to the top of the Utility Pillar we built, one bucket at a time)…chip away at the wall and foundation to add the plumbing for the new bathroom downstairs and frame off the wall for the new bathroom.
I need to take Mark home to watch the kids at 10am and go to the post office and bank (I need to pay my California franchise tax for Wise Medical Group, cut a check to some 1099 guys and see if we are off the waiting list for a PO Box in Rincon).
I’ll update some progress pictures tonight!
what is an electric pedistal, why did you mold it, why does it need concrete, and what does it do?
an architectural support or base for a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons?
Conner…the electrical pedestal is a required item here in puerto rico. It is where the electric company installs the meter at the edge of your property to get power to your house. Many of the houses around here are butted up against roads to the pedestals are on the roof. The property is too big to run it from the pole to the house. So, we had to build a cement post that is in total (including galvanized pipe at the top to insert the live power lines) 13 feet tall. Seven feet from the ground to the meter (we buy and install the box, they add the monitor) and then an additional 5 feet from the center of the meeter to the top of the pole. By code, it also needs to be concrete (even the telephone poles I am buying are made from concrete) that is at least 8 inches wide. This way, it won’t all over in a storm and it will be able to hold all the weight associated with running a big heavy power line to it.
Now that we have the pedestal constructed and poured (waiting for it to dry), it will be much easier to get the electric company to get out here and sell us some power.