Good question.
Remember that ugly wiring that I found behind the West wall? The one where a bunch of wires were going through the same conduit to the main breaker box. Here’s a reminder:
I had the main breaker box replaced a few years ago. The two guys who did the work stuffed all these wires in that conduit. However, since the insulation had been stripped off before they reached the breaker box, I had no idea which hot, white, and ground went together. As a result, I had extra wires filling that conduit. On top of that, the conduit was wobbly. It could easily slide up and down for an inch. This caused some fraying of the wire insulation at the top of the conduit.
I started the day by having Sharon push and pull on these wires while I was in the basement so that I could tell which hot, white, and ground went to each other. Then I pulled out the “surplus” wires. As she was helping me, she found that the guys who had installed the new breaker box had also run a screw partially through one of the wires.
I think that screw was the last straw in helping me to decide to rip out as much of the old wiring as I could. Now would be the time to do so since the walls and ceiling were already torn out. Bottom line? Here’s the new work:
