An Electric Jolt

August now, and finally work begins! We found an electrician that agreed to allow us to do the work of gutting the old wiring and cutting all the opening for the new outlets and switches, while he installed the actual circuits. This allowed us to save a ton of money and the electrician didn't have to do the grunt work, so we figured it was a win/win situation. The normal rhythm was for us to gut one or two rooms on the weekend, then the electrician would come during the week and re-wire that portion. Then we moved to the next room(s). This worked well until we reached the kitchen. At that point the house was about 80% rewired but now we had no choice but to suspend further electrical progress until all the structural work could be done and the new walls put in place where the new kitchen outlets would go. So we now had about 25 substantially sized holes all throughout the house waiting for patching.