Phase 3 Complete

OK, I may be jumping the gun by a few hours, but essentially Phase 3 (trim and fixture removal) is complete. There is still one ceiling fan, the alarm panels, and doorbell to be removed, but that should be done within a few hours in the morning. Drywall is coming off tomorrow!! We have the dumpster, we have the system to log the drywall (see the Judge's evidence preservation order), and we're ready to go. 26 hours logged today, 159 hours for this phase.

I guess it's worthwhile to discuss the downstairs electrical and plumbing... In our house, the ceiling on the first floor is CD (by XRF analysis), but most of the walls are domestic - except for the coat closet, pantry, TV nook, one board in dining, one board in living, and one board in family rooms. The foyer is two-story and most of the downstairs is also CD. So, actually, it does sound like there's quite a bit, but... mostly domestic... Anyway, here's the deal: most of the exposed ground wire is corroded. The high-voltage is 50-50. The dishwasher, for example, looked perfectly fine - but there's no CD in the kitchen. The ceiling fan in the family room looked like trash... I opened up a motion detector in the foyer - low voltage, CD area - but the little exposed wires inside the detector looked OK to me. The low voltage (twisted, loose insulation) speaker wire in the family room ceiling was trashed. So, difficult to generalize, but I do think I am going to leave the protected 120V wiring, but will replace most of the low voltage as planned. More inspection once the walls are off.

As for the plumbing, I haven't seen anything that's good - to include the kitchen sink. All brass and copper plumbing components look like junk. So... I guess I'm going to learn something about plumbing in the next few weeks. Always wanted to learn to braze...