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Rant: Last Tuesday was the worst day I've had on the job in 20 years
I was doing a service upgrade in an old house near Topeka and hit a live knob and tube wire that wasn't marked on any print. Took me 4 hours to safely isolate it and rewire around it, lost a full day's pay on the quote. Has anyone else run into surprise cloth wiring in old homes that wasn't in the inspection report?
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hannahm395mo ago
Hit "live knob and tube" is all I needed to hear. That stuff is a nightmare waiting to happen.
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taraanderson5mo ago
Rewiring that old stuff completely fixed our flickering lights problem.
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sanchez.pat5mo ago
Damn, that's a nightmare. I found the same thing last year in a 1920s house, had to crawl through asbestos dust to trace it out.
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