No, i've removed it from the rentals we have and rewired them. As for my own place, it was built in 1877 but not wired until the early fifties. All cloth covered romex. I've removed all that also. Believe me, I have a big pile of it in the back waiting to be burned.
si bet you have K&T covered with insulation..........
and are burying your head in the sand over this as a known hazard
How often were you tearing down walls looking for them?
It was comon for splices to be in the walls. Unless you were tearing the walls down how would you know?
locally I helped gut a home after a fire, that wasnt electrical in nature. cat knocked over a lamp 139K in damages.
I could see places where the K&T had overheated, the house was on breakers, K&T connections were buried in walls, not accessible, much of the wiring was missing its insulation even in areas undisturbed by the fire.
no where did i say rewire today
but its a good thing to replace, at least off all outlet circuits.
hey at resale time buyer will want discount for rewiring, or just plain not buy.
and K&T isnt getting any newer, and insurance just more picky.........
I've stripped to studs all the houses i've come in contact with. . Seriously, though, i've stripped out the ones that had K&T as a matter of course.
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Thanks Terry and everyone else for all of your suggestions and the time and energy you put into trying to help me get this fixed.
I finally decided to give up. I took up 2 more boards in the attic floor and got better access to the wiring to the hallway light from above. Then I used the inductance tester to see if I could find any "hot" wires. Neither wire going to the hallway light was hot, and I traced both back as far as I could and got the same thing. Those wires and all 6 wires to the two 3-way switches all showed no power.
i would get really interested in your wiring, since you dont know what failed there might be more and the next failure could start a fire.,
in my job i see wiring burn up all the time.
12 and 14 gauge wire burned up carrying 15 amps. they are connected to a switchmight be a good idea to get a electrician to look at everything.........
house fires are nasty,,,,,
it would be sad to have a fire, open walls and find the same failure that caused the fire had caused this outage.,,,,
This must be the stupidest thing you have written. (Recently.)
Obviously you haven't read
K&T was installed to keep the wires apart. Far as I know the same insulated wires were fished into pipes.
And still missing: Links that show a hazard of K&T wiring in contact with insulation. Links that show the fire hazard of K&T wiring.
And a link that says rubber insulation "burns at a relatively low temperature".
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