The electrical work we did on Wednesday (mounting the boxes) is in the first photo below. Most of what we did yesterday is in the second photo. That circuit breaker box on the right is getting mounted “right” – on an oak board that's affixed to the house's sheathing (instead of the siding as it was). Toward the bottom you can see a duplex outlet mounted that same way, and toward the top you can see where I'll be mounting a pair of switches to control the deck lighting. The smaller inner hole is where the metal electrical box fits, and the larger hole exposing bare wood is where the oak board will be mounted. I'll caulk the siding where it meets the oak board, and that will give me a waterproof mounting that's affixed to solid wood instead of the relatively flimsy siding. I've got things like this to fix all around the house; the original construction was done by mounting stuff right to the siding which I think is pretty darned shoddy. It would have been easy to do it right in the first place, but it's much harder to fix after the fact...
Today (and tomorrow) I'm going to keep plugging away at this. I'm hoping to have the outdoors work all done before it gets too darned cold to work.
