So I’ve saved up enough money to have my furnace and central air re-installed.  I say re-installed because thieves stole the old unit from the house while it was in foreclosure before I purchased it.

It’s great news to have the money saved up and it’s even better news that there is a $1500 tax credit to install one this year.  The bad news is that I hurriedly installed two circuits into the house after the hot water heater broke last year.  They were generally safe and installed correctly, but code requires that the connections be terminated better to the outlet box, water heater and to the fuse box.

I didn’t want to call an AC guy and have him turn up his nose at my fuse box so I called one of the best elecrical companies in the KC area and they sent someone out.  They think they can fix my bad install with 4 or so hours of labor.  I consider that a fair price on something that I don’t have the time to learn right now.  Not to mention, I want a furnace this year, not a bunch of space heaters running on extension cords and me nervously sleeping and wondering if an overloaded circuit would burn me up.

So any how, I spent 4 hours today moving things around to give the electrician the space he’ll need tomorrow.  Now I’m pooped.  But I sure can’t wait until I get rid of all these window Air Condtioners and have no space heaters in the winter.

UPDATE: I’m going to add some before pictures into this post.

conduit running from front of panel and going through the drywall into utility room

Panel with incorrectly terminated connections.  They should be tunneled in the wall and come up from the bottom of the box.

Incorrectly terminated conduit to the hot water heater

Electrical Box is not mounted to the wall, just hanging from conduit

Conduit should be running inside a tunnel that allows the wire to turn 90 degrees inside the wall.  Tunnel sort of prevents chafing.