Rewiring the Garage
When we first bought our house, the circuit box in the garage was a fire hazard waiting to happen. It had no lid and wires were dangling out of it. We asked my Uncle Marve to clean it up, being a master electrician, and he found that the entire garage was a mess. Conduit had been added piecemeal over the years, several electric garage door systems were still in place, and some wires just hung from the rafters for no reason. There were more pressing matters to attend to at the time, so we figured that we would come back to it when it became a necessity.
Three years passed. Before we could replace the garage roof, we had to shore up the rafters in there. To do that, Glenn had to disassemble much of the conduit running across the existing ceiling joists. Since the whole setup was a rat’s nest to begin with, we were lucky to be able to restore power to the garage door, let alone the rest of the garage. Marve said that he would come back and rewire the entire garage in a couple of weeks.
We finally got to it on Sunday. The process took all day, mostly because running conduit is a pain. I hung out with Marve, but I’m not much help with electrical wiring, so Marve did all of the work. We now have a single switch that operates all four lights inside the garage (before we had three switches, one for each of three lights), additional outlets near the work shelves and a rear switch that operates the flourescent lights above my workbench. Now that we have reliable lighting in the garage, I’m going to have to organize everything in there…
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