Maybe I shouldn't strip out much? The thing is there is three panels in the basement, and two or three on the main level. It's kind of a mess. It would be nice to consolidate it down to the essentials, but I suppose it's not necessary.
My reasonably intelligent and capable handy helper guy will work 6 hours for for the cost of one hour of a professional electrician. So with him and me I'd like to get the grunt work out of the way before the pro shows up. Hopefully they don't make me go to a code update. I had to do that once before and it was a bunch of really expensive nonsense in my opinion.
Sounds like a plan. Cleaning up years and years of hack-job wiring is always a good thing to do for your own sanity going forward. Nothing worse than a National Lampoon Christmas Vacation wiring job with some switch on a bathroom wall turning your main power on and off!
