RV Hot Skin (Exterior electrification)
This past weekend my wife was electrocuted when she stepped onto the trailer steps and grabbed the handrail while in bare feet. She was subsequently thrown from the rig and landed in the grass. She ...
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time2roll wrote:
As you please. I would rip it all out.
After 100 years if you can't renovate this stuff it might be time to sell the house and get something updated.
I stand with your brother on this.
Sorry you "stand with my Brother", he isn't in reality and standing with him, you have no clue. There is "book smart" and there is "street smart", I would rather stand on the "Street Smart" side of life..
Fortunately my house didn't have knob and tube when I bought it, but it did have some interesting wooden wire "race way trays" in the attic crawl space which tells me it may have had some at one time in it's life.
But obviously you have never dealt with old homes or apartments in Cities.. You don't just "tear out" stuff, it becomes a very long drawn out process of permits, inspections and in the case of "landmarks" or "historical" buildings the added restrictions of making everything go back and look like it is done accurately for the time period..
Fortunately for myself, home is outside a city which made life much easier.. As far as my homes electrical system goes, it IS fully updated, including 200A service entrance (replaced old 60A fuse box) with new breaker panel, new grounding system, all new wiring, new outlets.. Fully inspected and passed by my PoCos approved inspector (on edit, I should note: Fully up to date to code at the time of the inspectors approval). My home had no insulation and lots of warped 3/8" drywall, made decision easy to gut and replace.
I have also done rework on multiple homes with old systems along with wiring some new homes from scratch so I am no stranger to electrical work.
