You may remember a little smoke problem I mentioned yesterday? Here's the why-for! When the guys were pulling off the exterior wall, and outside outlet wire got cut and the bare wire landed against the metal box. It couldn't reach the ground and did some crazy thing (read:there's an electrical explanation that I didn't understand) and took out that entire circuit down to breaker box, wiping out the wires and the breaker! That was my living room and part of the basement. As a sidebar, the surge melted the connections inside of two of our cannister lights over the dining table. That's what you see above.
The plan: The fine electrician I met yesterday, Aaron of e2 in Hutchinson, will return on Monday to cut holes in my living room walls (plaster) and our basement (drywall over wood paneling) to fish new wire, repair the circuit and replace the breaker. Then, our contractor gets to fix all the walls and foot the bill.
By the way, I'm asking my step-dad, Tim, for new breakers for my birthday =)
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