One of the things we needed to do was have some electrical stuff done. Occasionaly if we turned the stove on the same time the oven was on, the breaker would pop!
The other thing was we had some breakers completely off, others on and didn't seem to be going anywhere and some outlets and switches not working.
So with part of this year's tax return, we hired a good electrician - Rick - to come do some seroius work for us. Here' the old box with about 6 to 8 wires just hanging down going to no where. Also the additional little box on the left, had 4 breakers but nothing! Some of the wires were loose and some of the breakers felt like they were about to fall out. Plus nothing on the panel was marked to tell us what breakers went to what circuits in the house.
Rick came in and put in a new panel, then we chased down where all the original wires went. Then we went through and found which breaker went to what circuit in the house. Turns out the ENTIRE basement was run on one circuit. Oy vai!!!So we ran a new wire and separated the basement into 3 parts on 3 different circuits. Aaahhh - much better. I feel much safer now.
It took two days to get it all done, but thankfully, we've got it changed and almost right, but Iam much, MUCH happeier about it!
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