[AT] Shhhh! Quiet==electrical

[Mike Sloane]

It is called "knob and tube" wiring. I rented a carriage house apartment 
on an estate once and pretended that the wiring wasn't there. Years 
later, I read that the place had burned down (but arson was suspected, 
as the estate had been abandoned and druggies had taken over).

Mike

charliehill wrote:
> Years ago, I moved into an old house that I had rented.  Part of it was an 
> old slave quarters if that tells you how old it was.  I'd lived there a few 
> months and one night I went up into the attic for the first time.  What I 
> found nearly scared me to death.  It was wired with old....... I forget what 
> you call it..... bare wire on insulators.  It was run over the ceiling 
> joists and the copper wire had been hot enough to discolor and droop down 
> onto the ceiling insulation (what insulation there was).  I went into panic 
> mode.  It was about 8:30 on a Sunday night and the only thing open that sold 
> wiring stuff was Montgomery Wards, 10 miles away and they closed at 9.  I 
> got there in time, bought a box of Romex, some boxes, etc. and headed home. 
> I had it rewired to the point of being safe before I went to sleep that 
> night.
> 
> Sadly I can't work that fast or hard these days.
> 
> Charlie