Let there be light!

Here's a quick post about all the electrical updates we made.  We knew before we bought the house that we'd have to update the electrical system.  The previous owners were running on a 60 amp fuse box and that clearly wasn't enough to support even two wallpaper steamers plugged into one room let alone a house full of computers, tv, dish washer, etc.  So we decided to update the entire electrical system right after we bought the place.  The electrician we hired was optimistic about the job, quoting us 2-3 weeks to do the whole project, saying they would lay the new wiring next to the old so we would have power throughout the job until they switched things over at the end.  Well, since we were working every day and they were gone by the time we got home, we didn't get to touch base with them as often as we would have liked.  And they went through and systematically shut off the electricity to every room they worked on so eventually we had to power in the house and couldn't get any work done.  Luckily we still had our apartment for the rest of the month until we officially moved but we lost a lot of working time and our house usually looked like this:

Every day we would come home to find outlets in various stages of work.

The work ended up taking about double the amount of time originally quoted, but in the end, it made it so worth it to not worry about blowing a fuse and once our new light fixtures were hung we were that much more relieved.  We achieved a LOT of work in a little bit of time.  In fact, the electrician was still finishing the job as we were moving our things in on the big move day from our apartment.  But going from this:

To this:

makes all the difference!