Electrical fun

So this weekend was electrical weekend at our house.  Frank spent 1 1/2 days in our attic cleaning up a crazy mess of electrical wires.  At one point on Saturday he comes downstairs to tell us there was a previous fire in the bathroom and he wants to show us.  He shows us an outlet that he has removed.  Shows us the first sign of electrical fires is a yellowing mark, then he showed us the blackened wires...lovely!  Then he starts spouting out electrical terms while I pretended to understand.  "These people had two 110's feeding into a 220, what idiot would do that?  You're just asking for trouble there."  While trying to make sense out of all the wires, he drew a map of what it should look like on our subfloor, then he just ripped everything out and put in everything new.  He also laughed about the wiring in the upstairs hall.  So there's a switch on each end of the hall that turns both hall lights on.  Usually you only need 3 wires to connect to the switch plates.  This house had 15 wires just to turn on two hall lights.

While Frank was busy in the attic, Peter and my mom started painting primer on the living room walls, a portion around the window and sliding glass door in our bedroom and a linen/game closet.  Peter also put primer on the upstairs hall.  We might just get some color on the walls next weekend.

Frank also finished installing the subfloor in the bathroom, added two can lights and the exhaust fan.  He turned it on to help get rid of the paint fumes he was breathing in.  He was surprised at how quiet it was.  He said we got a really good one.  Our house also has a whole house fan upstairs.  The motor was burnt out, so he replaced it and got it in tip top working order.  He said come summer we will be glad to have that working since the house doesn't have AC.