easter wire hunt
we yanked down most of the ceiling drywall today. i finally got to see what's going on with both the old and new wiring. stuff like this makes me cringe:
thankfully, i'll be ripping out all this wiring anyway.
for the circuit that's still having problems, i decided to trace the wiring into the room and came across this:
i'm *really* glad i shut off all the breakers for the overhead wiring before we pulled anything down.
in other news, we got these kits from home depot which have safety goggles, a dust filter, and earplugs. after getting to the house and putting them on, i realized why the kit was so inexpensive. the dust filter wouldn't create a good seal around my nose no matter how i positioned it or how tightly i closed the metal clamp. every time i breathed, my glasses would fog up. so i decided to be stupid and yank down the drywall without wearing it. it didn't take us long at all to rip everything down, but i did manage to inhale a fair amount of dust in that time. from what i've been able to gather on the internet, i probably don't need to be *too* worried about it, but it is messing with my system a little.
next time i'm doing it right and getting respirators. i really should have known better.