To tell the truth, I’ve been waiting to rip out the kitchen walls for some time. I wanted to get to the old wiring. A few years ago, I paid an electrician to replace my old “push button” breakers to modern breakers. They installed a 200 Amp box at that same time. What they did not do is to identify the new circuits. Furthermore, most of the wires in my house run into the breaker box through a single conduit. Individual wire cables had been “stripped” so that it was impossible to tell which “hot,” “white,” ground wires went together.
When I remodeled the dining area a couple of years ago, I also had to tear out most of one wall and part of the ceiling of our adjacent garage so that I could get to the wiring. It was at that time that I found out that I could not tear out the old wires. I had to leave some circuits cut, but live in electric boxes in the wall. I desperately wanted to tidy up this electric clutter. Today I was able to cut out the old, unused wiring. The picture below shows the results after I tore out five circuits.
