That house was special. Original owners managed to live in the house for 60 years, so it was unmolested until the mid-70's. Apparently the next owners had a bunch of kids and did nothing to the house for 10 years, then the people we bought it from inherited a mess. The dude told me he went overkill on the electrical because he didn't want to disturb the K&T since it was in great shape never have been touched. The electrical even got a clean bill of health in inspection when we sold it.wap wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:48 pmSure. And my point was that mostDetroit wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:58 pm
I would never plug anything more than a vacuum into those outlets. An AC Unit?That's part of why we had mini splits installed.
Our house had an updated panel WITH a connected sub panel and every knob and tube wire coming into the box got its own circuit. Our electrician wasby the number of circuits, and did some testing to find that most of the knob and tube outlets had their own circuits. Some outlets were tied into lighting (obviously not great) but we knew which ones they were and limited what we plugged into them. Plus, we had LED bulbs everywhere, which as I mentioned is a drastically reduced draw compared to early incandescent lights.
Point is, knob and tube CAN be fine. Just depends on the condition.s have no clue how their house is wired or how to safely use K&T electrical service.
setup on your previous
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SO K&T isn't necessarily the end of the world, but it needs to be properly managed/maintained.