Day 25 March 11

During the day I removed two more baseboard heaters from the first bedroom and the bathroom. There’s only one left but it’s behind a bunch of large sheets of drywall that I’ll be needing David’s help to move them out of the way. David explained one of the 3-way switches to me in the mudroom so I was able to connect that switch, but left the doozy to him until he came home.

His first task after work was to finish his project the night before of removing the outlets and wiring upstairs. Originally when we had removed part of the mudroom ceiling (that’s right below our bedroom), there was a hidden junction box that we had no idea where it went to. It’s been a considerable challenge for David to try and understand the wiring of a space when it’s not open, which was the case for upstairs. However, after tugging on the wire, David figured out the secret junction box were for the upstairs outlets. Since he wanted to remove the box, we had to do some more fishing which got a little sketchy at times. But in the end we got all the wires through and in their rightful place.

Next was the doom of wires David had been avoiding until now. I finished wiring the one outlet that would stay in its originally spot upstairs while David got the box in the wall. I joined him downstairs and connected the wires to the breaker box. At that point David had connected the 3-way switch for the mudroom and it was time for the test… FAIL! Well not quite completely, it turned on and off but it wasn’t connected correctly for it to always work on both switches. David was thoroughly confused so he went to his trusty IPad to investigate. Within 10 minutes he had fixed his mistake and it worked! He was pumped and wanted to continue with the rest of the lights, but exhaustion was getting the best of him so he called it a night. We’ll get to it tomorrow.