Spent a couple hours on Saturday busting stucco again. Since I’d heard that 9″ flashing is now required for windows, I needed a little to chip a little more room for my window. Dad came over to help get it in place. Looks pretty good! Though I have to say it makes the opening a lot smaller than it was. Still, it’s nice to have it finally in place.
I finally got around to putting that window in...
Now Sunday was pretty much entirely spent in the attic. The outside temperature stayed around 70 all day -pretty nice. However in the attic, I’m guessing it was around 90. That coupled with all the contorting I was doing to get into those tight spots, pretty much made me sweat so much that I was soaked whenever I came down. Loads of fun! However I did manage to get all the wire ran and staples in, in all the awkward spots out near the eves. Thank goodness that’s pretty much out of the way!
Here's a picture of the back of the service panel. All the circuits needed for the kitchen are in place, plus a few extras...
Now I started to sort out the wiring that was already in place in the attic prior to starting this project. It looks like the kitchen had some electrical work done pretty early on, and possibly by an electrician. He did things the easy way. Ran wires from whatever was nearest and didn’t know what a wire staple was. No problems there. However the second round of wiring was not done by a pro. Splices in the middle of wires with black tape around them, and get this -the splices were soldered! OK still no problem, easy to fix, just a real pain in the butt. However this guy went one step further. He split the 220V circuit to the dryer and that is now partially powering stuff in the kitchen, and appears to operate most stuff in the garage. Now, even that might be OK if he kept stuff neat and tidy, but not a chance. He’s tied lots of commons together from different breakers and has got three or four types of wire running every direction. I’d go into more detail, but there’s too much to go over. Here’s a picture of part of the attic that I’m currently sorting out (and this is after I cleaned it up). This is only the first part of the wiring. There’s a double deep electrical box out in the garage stuffed with wires that attaches to this mess -that’s next.
In the process of cleaning this up...
