All done totally by hand, all in awkward and difficult to pull in locations.
But before we could even do those wire pulls, we had to thaw out our frozen water based wire pulling lube. 🥶🥶😄😬
Then we cut some holes in the building and pulled in about 100’ of 1/0 SER cable through an attic, which is no fun, and reminded me I’m getting too old for attic crawls. 😄😄
Then most of the rest of the day was spent splicing 4/0 feeders in their junction boxes and landing them in the panel.
The SER cable ( big grey cable coming out the top center of this panel) feeds this pre-existing sub panel, which needed a ground buss replacement, bond removal, and some other massaging before we could hook it back up.
The pile of electrical trash from the junk we have removed has gotten pretty impressive.
I spent a good deal of time up on a ladder installing another conduit run for branch circuits.
Working overhead and upside down on ceilings has got to be one of the most taxing jobs in this trade. 🙄
Sorry you have to look at me from my best side there. 😄😄
By the time six pm rolled around, all the big wire was landed, the panels were all heated up, and most of the big tasks were completed.
The punch list is getting pleasantly small with basically just fixing up all the remaining branch circuits now-but that’s a full day’s work if it all goes well, and tomorrow is our last day.
Will we manage to punch this through and load up our crap Saturday morning, or will we stumble on the last day?
Tomorrow we find out if we’re heros or zeros. 😄😄😬😬