My friend Kurt who is a union electrician who wires commercial spaces came by to help us move the breaker box that we had left dangling after the contractor took the wall away. He really put us to work - he did all the actual wiring but Mike and I did a lot of the manual labour.
All 3 of us worked from 8am to 10pm and I had already bought all the materials beforehand! (an adventure in itself). We also had to interrupt the feed to upstairs cos it came through the wall too and they didn't have power for a few hours.
It was immensely satisfying though. I know everything in theory but actually doing it makes all the difference and gives us a lot of confidence. Of course we realised later when the boiler wasnt kicking on that Mike had accidentally cut the cable that connects the thermostat to the boiler (he thought it was telephone cable which it is but just not for a telephone) We reinstated it today and everything now works fine.
On Sunday, I cleaned the house (the dust is just incredible) and we filled in the hole from the tree that Mike dug up last week. In the evening, we grilled some steaks and burgers with the Grays and it was very satisfying.
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