Fuse box to circuit breaker panel

Here I am, prepared with a cleared area and the wires labeled:

The spaghetti on the inside:

In case you wondered, this is what the back of an electric meter looks like (analog):

And here is where it plugs in (hot on top):

Power's off, and so is the old box:

The new circuit breaker panel installed and wired up:

And with the cover on:

There are some breakers installed that I'm not using yet; some of you might have noticed that I have extra wires tapped into the main. There is another fuse box that runs the dryer, the hot water heater, the a/c unit, and the dishwasher on the other side of the house. I intend on running wires from those appliances to this new box in stages, hence the thirty amp tandem breakers. One fifty amp tandem might eventually run to the garage to another smaller service panel. The second runs the range. The third needs taken back to the store and more twenties put in. I'll break down the circuits in the house as I replace the wiring. As it is, one thirty amp breaker runs the south side of the house (living room, dining room, kitchen), and one twenty amp breaker runs the north side (two bedrooms and a bath). The remainder run small odd circuits in the basement (one powers only one outlet, one powers the furnace, another powers only one light bulb).

It took me about three or four hours to complete the switch. I've tested everything in the house that I can think of, and it seems that everything is running fine. Now we're all set up to get that fuel oil tank and old furnace out and make the switch to electric.

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3 Years ago we signed on our house! 3! WOW!

Nursery

The middle picture is of the "closet bubble" the day we moved in. The bottom picture shows the shelves Joe built into the wall.