Buying a home with knob and tube wiring? You should be concerned with the safety of the wiring and the insurability of the home. I'll discuss both in this post, but first, some background. Knob and ...

Question: I live in a beautiful home in San Roque that was built in the late 1920s and it still has the old original knob-and-tube style of electrical wiring. The original fuse box was removed and ...

All these things can be major fire hazards. Add in the potential for deterioration due to age (sagging wires, fraying or crumbling insulation around the conductors, etc.), and some insurance companies ...

Q We purchased our home in July 2005. The house is about 120 years old and in great shape, but there’s a ton of knob-and-tube wiring. Someone mentioned recently that homes must have most or all of it ...

I had a call from a reader touching on a subject involving areas I have discussed before — when you have visible knob and tube wiring in any area of your home whether it be the attic, garage or ...

I’m buying a house in an older neighborhood to set up as a rental unit. The house has the older style knob and tube wiring, which is visible in the attic. I’d like to add insulation to the attic to ...

I thought I'd finished with writing about knob and tube wiring, but readers raised a couple of good points this week, so I'll go one more time. Knob and tube is the earliest of the electrical wiring, ...

If you have a house built before 1970, or are thinking of buying one, you need to know something about wiring. Older houses can be a spaghetti factory of wires - copper, aluminum, knob and tube, often ...

‘Don't wait until you get canceled’: Bay Area homeowners could lose insurance coverage for having this 1 outdated electrical system — here’s why it’s a risk and how to stay insured California ...

Ideally, you want to be able to take your home's electrical system for granted. It should power your lights and appliances reliably, safely and invisibly. But it's important to notice warning signs ...

Modern Romex wiring has protective plastic insulation around each wire. This insulation is rated to 90 degrees Celsius. For those who don’t want to do the conversion, trust me, that’s hot. Hotter than ...