Step 24 - Electrical

It's time to start getting the wiring put in. Les Wanamaker is our electrician. Our house is old and has a lot of things wrong with it, one of which is the old wiring. It's a mess. So Les is going to get it straightened out as much as possible, starting with a new panel. Right now we have a line coming from the pole at the street to the middle part of the house. We're changing that to be underground, going from the pole to the northeast corner of the garage. Our plan is to get the TV cable and phone line underground too so we won't have any overhead lines coming to the house.

In the photos Les is working primarily in the garage and office. Since the new panel is on the garage, all lines to the rest of the house have to run through the garage to get to the proper rooms. Mark and his crew built a "chase", which is basically a box made of 2x4's and drywall to carry the wiring. If it's necessary later to get into the chase to work on something, we just have to open up the chase rather than cutting into a whole wall.

The mass of wires is totally confusing to me. Les has each wire labeled so that when he connects them to the panel we can label the breakers as to what they control.