Our Home

We found that the drywall in the house was laid on top of the original lathe & plaster walls. In this configuration, when a hole is put in the wall to install an outlet or a light switch, the plaster behind the drywall crumbles and makes the drywall bow out from the wall. So we will have to tear out the walls and put new drywall up directly on the wall studs.UPDATE: We do have some good news; only about half of the rooms were done that way. So the other half we can use as is. Yeah!!

I was thinking that we would have to replace the power panel in the house but when I looked into the model of panel that is there now, it is a pretty good one that we can still buy breakers for. It looks like we don’t have to buy a new power panel either. Praise God for that.

Most of the wiring in the house is an older style that does not meet the electrical code. We will have to replace that. It was wired kind of weird so I will need to rewire most of the house anyway. The outlets are currently in the baseboards and code says they need to be 18” off of the floor. This means that every outlet needs to be moved. This does allow us to pick where we want the outlets to go.