>>(Also, there's the small matter of how
>>to do that without, you know, moving out for a month or whatever.)
>
>I think it may be possible to do it in stages. Granted, this would
>mean you'd have a breaker panel side-by-side with your old fuse box
>until the old system is completely phased out... but if you tackle it
>just one space at a time instead of trying to do it all at once then
>it may be doable.

The existing system is at least modern enough that there is already a modern breaker panel and there are no fuses--although some of the wiring connected to that breaker panel clearly still dates to the time when there would have been a fuse box down there, which is... not ideal.

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