[09.11.03]
The first thing to do was to remove the electrical service panel from the interior of the mud porch. You can see the front of the panel laying on the floor up against the wall. This pic is after the electrical box was taken out (where the white circle is).

[09.12.03]
The service "meter" is now resting about eight foot from it's original location on the exterior of the house. The service "panel", the opposite side of the service "meter", now resides just inside the kitchen. You can see some of the wires are hooked up although there has been and will be, much more work to complete the transition.

[09.11.03]
Here's a look from inside the kitchen. The choice is about the best place to put the new panel considering it offered the least amount of work. When completed, I plan on disguising it so it looks like it should be there or obviously shouldn't.

[09.12.03]
I mentioned collateral damage before. When I moved the service panel it had connections to the garage wiring. Since those connections were buried underground using romex (house wire with a heavy coating yet it's not appropriate for underground wiring) I figured what a better time to redo the connections from the garage to the new service panel. It was also a good time to re do the telephone line. This is just an example of how some work creates more work. Not necessarily bad but, sometimes it's hard to know when and where to stop.

[09.12.03]
Not stopping produces more work. Since it was a no-brainer to redo the garage wiring it makes good sense to bury the new wiring in plastic pipe like it should have been done in the first place. Of course that means a lot of digging and lots of mud when it rains. It's ok by Molly though, she likes to track it around where ever she goes :-)

[09.14.03]
Kristy is just getting ready to start stuffing insulation into the wall space where the new electrical service has been installed. It took both of us quite awhile to get all the insulation possible packed in place. (Saying that fast three times is about as easy as it was doing the stuffing). Being such good help, Kristy made the job fun and as usual, interesting. By the way, the insulation was recycled from the mud porch walls that would eventually be removed.

[09.13.03]
This is a good shot of what the old mud porch looked like after all the electrical work had been completed. If you look close you can see where the old service meter was (dark spot just to the left of the new location). The siding was removed on the kitchen exterior because it was about as rotten as the mud porch siding. This eventually set up a chain reaction to more work. As I mentioned, "...because what you start out to do and what you end up doing are always different, guaranteed".

Next, on to the fun stuff, deconstruction