Originally Posted by Hemi_Joel
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.


I think you are now seeing the forest from the trees on the entire project.

And a real licensed electrician will shy away from anything not up to code, even if it appears to be nonsense, and sometimes is.

Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.