LDCHAPMAN

I've done lots of electrical and security renovations. Old House Guy is dead on the money. A couple of generations ago, my boss told me (as he was getting ready to send me out into the field as an apprentice for the first time), "Hook up with an old timer. LISTEN to him...learn from him. He didn't make it in this business as long as he did by being stupid." Words to live by...then and now. The ball-chain trick is spot on. One house that's a claim to fame is the second oldest house in the Northwest Territory in Marietta, Ohio. Not only was it a challenge...but honoring the Historic Preservation folks' wishes was a huge undertaking. The ball chain trick worked like a champ in that house...and nothing was destroyed vis-a-vis plaster and lath, either.