After finishing with the insulation as described in the last post in this series, I needed to concentrate on running new electrical wiring from under the main part of the house under the existing bathroom floor, through the foundation. The new wiring would then need to run up behind the interior log wall where I would have to cut in ports for the switches and then run up behind the chinking to the top course of logs to another electrical junction box so that I could install my overhead lighting.
What a pain in the butt.
Tapping into an unused circuit breaker in the relatively “not as ancient” box (this is a task for another time) I had run the new wire through the crawlspace and up through a channel I cut in the stone foundation.
The wiring then had to come up behind an interior log wall to the point where I had cut in two ports for the switch boxes. One for the overhead antler lights and the other is for a thermostat for the radiant heating that would be installed under the stone floor.
From there I had to run up behind the interior logs and then pull the wiring through the logs above the cut in doorway. From there I would lay the electrical wiring behind the new chinking up to the top course of logs 12′ over head where I installed a new junction box.
The junction box would allow me to run hidden electrical lines for the elk antler lights that I was wiring. The elk antler lights would hang about 9′ overhead. I didn’t want an electrical box hanging in the middle of the room so I had to disguise it partially embedded in the chinking so that it was not noticeable.
Once the new chinking was in place all of the electrical wiring would be hidden.
In order to complete the wiring I had the task of rewiring a set of hanging antique elk antler lights I had found while browsing at an architectural salvage yard. A small brass tag with the initials A.L.H. and the year 1924 I suppose referred to the name and date of manufacture – who knows, but they were what I sought.
In Part 7 I’ll rewire the antlers.
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