moeving right along

This was a long and a short weekend.  It was long because I was tired for most of it.. In fact I managed to sleep till about 2:30 on Saturday.. 8^P

It was short in that we needed more time for messing with the messed up electrics on Sunday.

Yet another fubar circuit was located and removed this weekend.  I am still not sure what it was doing there but wow..

The relatively new  breaker box had a dedicated circuit going back to the old fuse box  ( now a over sized junction box ) where this particular circuit joined up with a old knob and tube circuit.  Since we were having big problems with the last generation of wiring in the kitchen we were looking for the source of all the load that was in places where it should not be.

W e traced it back into the coal closet under the drain stack  There in the dark we found the bare wires hanging out of a dead old box _hanging_ off the wall.  So there it is 15 amps of  I’m gonna kick your ass just sitting there.  How this has not killed anyone or started a fire I do not want to know.  We cut the knob and tube and capped the end off from the breaker box, and I will only have some nightmares.  8^P

In the meantime the back-splash is coming along well and the  kitchen itself is nearly fully rewired, it was made more difficult by the crappy way that the last generation of wiring went in.  We got lucky though and found the entombed junction box in the ceiling.  8^P

I expect that by Friday we will  be closing up the walls, by then we should be down to trim, doors and paint.  8^)

Fortunately the  maids pantry, the the two entrys will be much easier to deal with.  8^P

Ivan

Ivan