[mikethedruid]

462Ron, that reminds me of my first house. It was a well built home from the 1920s, but had gone through a number of owners over the years, including an absentee landlord who had let a renter who claimed to be an electrician do wiring work on the place. I believe, from studying the wiring that originally, like most residences of the time, it was on a 4 circuit, 60 amp mains fuse box. Over the years somebody had installed a 100 amp service. I ended up having to rewire more than 60% of the house. The original wiring was fine, but some of the things done later would make your hair curl. I know the National Electrical Code. I had to learn it when I was a quality Control Engineer for Leviton Corp. In the house there were buried splices, and those not even in proper electrical boxes (replaced the entire run with a new single run of Romex), 2 wire with ground Romex being used as 3 wire where the bare grounding wire was used as a conductor, and NO GROUND ! (replaced that with 3 wire with ground Romex) The entire upstairs, 3 bedrooms and a bath were on a single circuit. I ran up 2 more circuits and split it so that the master bedroom and the attic lights were on one circuit (I added the attic lights), the two other bedrooms were on one circuit, and the bath and little hallway were on the third circuit. Originally each bedroom only had the overhead light and ONE electrical wall outlet. I added two more wall outlets to each bedroom, which was still not as many as were really required by the modern code, but was a heck of a lot better than just ONE. The bath did have a GFCI installed already at least; but there was no switch for the lights near the entrance door, and the lights were not on the GFCI. I ended up completely rewiring the bathroom so everything was on the GFCI, and I added a fan and switches for the fan and lights near the door. Needless to say I had to cut quite a few holes in the plaster and lathe walls. I learned how to do proper repairs to such holes, and once they were done, and the walls painted, you could never tell that anything had been done at all. It was sure a learning experience all around. When I was done, though, I had a safe, well wired home.