newservice
Senior Member
NOt sure if this is kosher, but the original thread started by me is now closed.
http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=147021&highlight=newservice
I did end up going time and materials. I made a bundle, but not nearly what a big shop would have got by contracting it. It sure was nice warm work in the winter and kept me busy August to March. In fact I'm going back now to extend overhead feeder to the garage and who knows what else.
So, here is how it shook out. I ended up cutting a 4" channel around the top of every baseboard in every room to be rewired. Then cut some bigger holes, drilled from floor to floor (3 floors above grade) and fished romex and cable to almost every room. Oh, forgot to mention the unexplained layers of BRICK encountered in the walls between the floors. No baloon construction there. That was fun. Not. And the Canvass ceilings. Yes canvass. Needless to say we used a lot of sconces. Then drilled the studs in the channel and again pulled romex.
The baseboards were a good thick hardwood of some sort, and 12" tall. Lent perfectly to cutting in old work boxes. Pared back on the old k&t style outlets and allowed that to stay, ended up with only a handful of those and left most the existing lighting outlets, which were re-used with most of the original fixtures because the owner was obsessed with keeping it as original as possible. The k&t was all very well executed, splices solid and #12 copper throughout.
Existing 150A service entrance OH and changed out for a 200A in 2"pvc , outside meter, 200A C&H panel, and a 100A sub panel half way across the basement. All the plaster on the basement ceiling was removed and so was a pile of old 1/2 conduit and boxes that was 10 feet long and waist deep. All my new wiring went right up in that ceiling just like a new house. K&T was removed wherever visible and spliced into.
2 circuits of smoke and CO detectors were put in to avoid going beyond the 12 device maximum rule (discussed in other forums). Also 2 heat detectors in the attic.
anyway.
http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=147021&highlight=newservice
I did end up going time and materials. I made a bundle, but not nearly what a big shop would have got by contracting it. It sure was nice warm work in the winter and kept me busy August to March. In fact I'm going back now to extend overhead feeder to the garage and who knows what else.
So, here is how it shook out. I ended up cutting a 4" channel around the top of every baseboard in every room to be rewired. Then cut some bigger holes, drilled from floor to floor (3 floors above grade) and fished romex and cable to almost every room. Oh, forgot to mention the unexplained layers of BRICK encountered in the walls between the floors. No baloon construction there. That was fun. Not. And the Canvass ceilings. Yes canvass. Needless to say we used a lot of sconces. Then drilled the studs in the channel and again pulled romex.
The baseboards were a good thick hardwood of some sort, and 12" tall. Lent perfectly to cutting in old work boxes. Pared back on the old k&t style outlets and allowed that to stay, ended up with only a handful of those and left most the existing lighting outlets, which were re-used with most of the original fixtures because the owner was obsessed with keeping it as original as possible. The k&t was all very well executed, splices solid and #12 copper throughout.
Existing 150A service entrance OH and changed out for a 200A in 2"pvc , outside meter, 200A C&H panel, and a 100A sub panel half way across the basement. All the plaster on the basement ceiling was removed and so was a pile of old 1/2 conduit and boxes that was 10 feet long and waist deep. All my new wiring went right up in that ceiling just like a new house. K&T was removed wherever visible and spliced into.
2 circuits of smoke and CO detectors were put in to avoid going beyond the 12 device maximum rule (discussed in other forums). Also 2 heat detectors in the attic.
anyway.
