Recent content by pistonbroke

Someone already mentioned it, but I vote for removing the bottom 24" of plaster. It makes life a lot easier and lets you add receptacles where ever you want. You're going to need a drywaller to repair the plaster anyway and fishing wire in an old house is hit and miss at the best of times. I've...

The correct fix is to get an electrician to install a new panel with a main breaker built in. Bite the bullet, pull a permit and do it right. Your present panel is a fire hazard. As for cutting the seal and pulling the meter, forget it. As mentioned earlier, if it's an old meter base you could...

This ^^^ I'm Canadian but we face the same issues. A shortage of skilled trades and rising commodity prices. We used to have some of the highest training standards in the world but with a shortage of tradesmen standards have slipped. All materials have positive and negative qualities. The...