Wire you looking at me like that?

When you're naughty at the cottage, we don't just put you in Time Out, we cram you into a hole in the wall/attic!

The Captain wasn't naughty, but he did find himself up in the wee crawlspace (above the old cottage roof, below the new cottage roof) that I suppose is technically an attic? As part of the "clean up the wiring mess" initiative, we decided to check out the multiple junction-boxes secreted away up there. If Dr. U had any part in their creation, we couldn't in good conscience leave those fire traps untended.

Once he got up there, the wiring was certainly hodge podge lodge, but the terminations in the junction boxes were actually done properly. WITH MARETTES. It's like Dr. U didn't have anything to do with them at all!

Well, almost nothing.

A few wires were re-routed, and a few connections were cleaned up.

Before long the Captain was out of his hidey hole and back to work detangling the wires for the outside lights ...

....sorting out the associated switches....

... and installing and wiring the recessed pot lights.

Here's where we left off.

The outdoor lights were detangled, grounded, and routed through tidy junction boxes to the switches

The pot lights were installed and tested.

And the kitchen lights were installed and tested.

By the end of the Weekend of Wiring, the livingroom/ kitchen reached the state where we can begin to install the white-painted tongue-n-groove pine panelling.

Yay!