This weekend I came to the conclusion that I need to get power back into the garage cause its sucks not having power in there. I have to remove the old doubled up 14/2 that feeds into the unsafe outdoor exposed doubled up 14(/2?) Jerry rigged (😱) that feeds then into the classic cloth wire that ends in the glass fuse fuse box. The house side does have an up to date 20 amp breaker (when the new 100 amp service was put in the whole house got 20 amp but was rewired to 12/2 when we moved in) & my plan is to run off that breaker new 12/2 to the outside where outdoor 12/2 will hang across the driveway to the garage using the current hanging points back to regular 12/2 inside down to a new circuit breaker box with 110 circuits for interior lighting, exterior lighting/1 or 2 outlets, set of indoor 20 amp outlets, set of indoor 15 amp outlets, then one each of a 20 & 15 amp "hard wire extention cables" for certain higher demand power tools (i.e. 120 welder,my portable compressor, torpedo heater) but no 220 for time being. This is all in a planning stage right now with working the budget, see what material I have & will need, what little help from in-laws I will have. One thing I figured is the 20 & 15 amp outlets will be in different colors cause it'll be easier to know which is which by color (& I have a bunch of brown 20 amps in the basment.) From putting it off for a year & a half for good & lazy reasons I need to get this done & some guidance to do it right cause working in a dark garage sucks. Now am I on the right track to rewire the garage using what I planned out or am I thinking in the wrong direction?
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