Old House is Old

Well you have probably heard by now that last week our house lost power.  It is an old house.  It was build in 1924 and the electrical is original to the house. 
A week ago some wire melted and created an arc.  Meaning the electricity was running through our house with a fuse missing.  Very dangerous.  We turned everything off except the phone and fridge, and I made my way to McDonald's.  Some of you may have remembered the post I did from there lol.  Well the dinning room closes at 11 so afterwords I made my way to the Village Inn (similar to a Denny's for you non Colorado folk).  It was all don in the name of free wi-fi!
The next day we had an electrician come out and see what we had.  He said he need a new junction box and meter on the outside of the house, as per code.  Of course they couldn't be out until the next day.  So I went to Village Inn again. WOO!  I got a free bowl of fruit it was great!
The down side to the lack of electricity is it was frickin' hot in my room!!!!! GAH!
Thankfully at 9 am sharp the electricians were ready to start working!  I had to move some of my things so they could get to a crawl space and ground all that power~

I bet your waiting for pictures so......here are some pictures!!!!

Bright and early.....and hot!  The electricians putting that j-box on the wall!

That's the only picture I got before I had to go downtown and run some errands.  That post office was ridiculously hot!

The rest of the piuctures are after I returned home.  The electricians were there ALL day!!

The first thing I saw when I came home was the lack of the meter and an empty box in our kitchen.  I grabbed Haruhi for a quick shot!  Good thing I got this when I did, that thing is sealed now!  This is where our fuse box used to be!

The 2 main fuses!  That thing is made of ceramic.  You can tell when fuse caused the problem.  It got so hot it changed the color of the metal!  It's not supposed to be silver.

The back.  Again you can tell where it got hot!! What ever they used for insulation back then just melted away.

Our whole house ran off 2 circuits.  Of course out house is old and 2 circuits is all they needed back then.  Of course right now all we have is still 2 circuits, we need to get those inspected before we can add more.  Did you know the average kitchen can have up to 8 circuits?

Old wire is OLD!!! and it was insulated with a type of cloth.  That is what is running through the rest of our house!

Yay! a big ugly box on the side of our house!!!

As of right now we are running on 2 15 amp circuits.  We can't use the microwave or have a lot on.  Thankfully though I can have my fan while I sleep....breathing is good!!!

Until tomorrow!!!!