In the Works: Whole-House Rewire

This week, our crew is hard at work on our Fairmount-area comprehensive home renovation. As you can see in this image, they are installing a completely new wiring system leading from the basement to various different rooms in the home. This house, which had insufficient old knob and tube wiring, used to have only gas lights!

Shown are the wire ends that will be attached to the service panel (which is out of view, right next to our photographer). Some of these will connect to second- and third-floor bedrooms, where they will supply power for lights and outlets. Others, like the 220v yellow line, will supply power to major appliances, like the range in the new kitchen.

To simplify the process, all of the lines are labeled on both ends of the runs!