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Originally Posted by HayZee518
I've personally re-wired 8 houses in Massachusetts with knob and tube and what I found would make any house inspector cringe! Mice seemed to like the jute fiber insulation and I found many runs bare for about a two foot run.
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Mice and K & T, or squirrels and Romex. Pick your poison. I choose the K & T. Why? This Romex wired house I saw, while up in the attic would REALLY make you cringe.....or an inspector to condemn the house. I saw bare eaten wire exiting one attic area, up over rough-sawn fibery wood, where all the insulation was eaten off the wires! ALL of them! And because Romex is Romex...these wires were within about 1/16 inch of making contact with each other and shorting out.
I told the landlord who was an ex-electricians helper and he went up there and doctored up every wire somehow, he said.