Electrical Work

Worked on fixing a bunch of horrible wiring that wasn't up to code. For whatever reason, the outlets weren't showing that they were properly grounded, and I had an inaccessible junction box hidden in the ceiling with 4 romex cables jammed into it.
Could have sworn I took more "before" photos, but here's the full shot of wiring before. You can see the metal junction box in the ceiling. It connected to the upstairs outlet, the room outlet, the bathroom outlet, and the room light switch. I still can't imagine why they did this.

Close up of their handywork. Probably why the grounding was screwed up. Was just waiting to start a fire or short out if anything loosened up....

So, after I ripped everything out, I ran all new romex (12 gauge). I ran the cable from the source of power, which was the upstairs outlet. So... from the upstairs outlet, to the room outlet, to the bathroom outlet, to the bathroom switches, to the room switch. Here's a look at the after.

As I had to pull romex from one floor to the other, through the wall, I had to cut an access hole in the outlet in the master bedroom that fed the rest of the power to the downstairs room and bathroom.

Holiday Lull

Didn't really do anything on the house for months during the holidays, so I started off with a bang. I've been wanting to start on one of the rooms downstairs but didn't really have a clear idea or inspiration on what to do and what room to attack first. Well, inspiration hit, so I began demolition on my exercise room to remove the existing closet and strip back the walls so I can properly insulate it, tape and insulate the heating ducts, fix electrical, and the like.

Start of demo. Closets space still there.

Found a fossilized buddy in the ceiling space.

Demo mostly finished. Tons of junk to still haul out.