I’ve got about 33% of my electrical rework done. I’ve got new electrical boxes in three of seven rooms, and one room with new cable terminated. I’ve still got two rooms to get receptacles into and four rooms to put new cable into for receptacles. Then there’s lighting, which will be upgraded in the bedrooms and hallway, but I’m adding new lighting to the living, dining and kitchen. I’m not counting my exterior lighting yet, but that’s another project. Here’s my to-do list:

Install new electrical boxes in living-room
Install new electrical boxes in master bedroom
Install new electrical boxes in second bedroom
Install new electrical boxes in kitchen
Install new electrical boxes in dining room
Install new lighting/cable in kitchen
Install new lighting/cable in dining room
Install/terminate 14/2 electrical cable in living-room
Install/terminate 14/2 electrical cable in master bedroom
Install/terminate 14/2 electrical cable in second bedroom
Install/terminate 12/2 electrical cable in kitchen
Install/terminate 12/2 electrical cable in dining room
Install metallic electrical boxes/new cable for installed equipment (for dryer, washer, range, oven, furnace and A/C unit because they need power until I can upgrade the service)
Install new breaker panel/install breakers and cables

More to come…

Last weekend was a bust, a complete and utter ball-buster of a weekend. Sunday came and brought rain, and a power outage. Only two outlets in the whole house worked, which pointed to loosing one leg of power from the supply side. After having Duke Energy dispatch a guy to check it out (it’s happened before that we’ve lost one leg of power and the power company was able to fix it - I was hoping that’s what it was this time too), we came to find out two things.

One, we don’t have 100 AMP service as we thought - we have 60 AMP service. We where planning on upgrading our power service (re-running cables, adding outlets, moving the breaker-box, etc.). You would too if you were living in our place and got a look at the way some of this stuff is wired. Now, however, we can’t really make any more changes or additions to what we have until we do the upgrade.

Two, something in the house was drawing too much amperage (with 60 AMP service, go figure) and overheating the meter-box (causing arching IN THE METER-BOX - our side of the box of course) causing the outage (it was coming on intermittently, then quickly going back out again).

After turning off all the breakers in the breaker box and bringing them back on, one at a time over the course of about 20 minutes, I had everything back up and working again. So, what was the problem? No idea, but I do know that before I let any more time slip away I’ve got to re-run all the electrical in the house. Which means getting started this weekend and possibly taking a couple of days of work off next week to finish. After all, I don’t want the place to burn down.

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No, I don’t…