[jyl]

Forgot to post pic of exterior panel. Dark now, will do tmrw. It isn’t a normal residential service because this is a triplex. There is a big-ass panel on the exterior that says “400A” and has three meters, one for each unit. Next to each meter is a hinged cover labeled with the unit, and under that is the shutoff for that unit’s panel. My electrician was pleased to see it, and said “you have plenty of power”. Once she said that I lost interest in the big-ass panel since I didn’t plan to ever mess with it. But I looked more closely today.

Ok, on the circuit. Now that I’m done being irritated at myself for not taking a picture of the wiring before I disconnected everything and removed the old light - which was weeks ago - I think I understand how it is supposed to be wired.

I should have given it more thought but my main task today was to take the foyer walls to studs, and I needed to get on with that. Took about five hours with bagging and hauling to my dropbox and cleanup. Pulled off drywall then lath and plaster from the walls, and drywall from the ceiling. Found the former switch box, covered up, connected to knob and tube, still hot. Eeep. Screwed a scrap down to cover that and adding it to the list of things for my electrician to deal with.

Next week I am going to take off the rest of the ceilings of the foyer and kitchen. Maybe get started on the bathroom demo. It is crazy how much volume the demo’d stuff takes up when bagged. I’m gonna fill my third 10 yard box soon.

I hadn’t originally planned to fully demo the foyer, but they put drywall over wallpaper without resetting the trim and casings, and it looked bad, so I started pulling off drywall. Then I started thinking about all the work needed to do a good paint job over old wallpaper, and alternatively all the work needed to remove multiple layers of old wallpaper. Then I thought about how the coffee bar will be there so it will need many circuits and some plumbing, and I decided it will be faster for the electrician and plumber and therefore cheaper for me if the room was totally open to the studs. Plus I can insulate the exterior walls and recover the walls with firecode X drywall. It made sense, really.