[Novalug] generators/UPS

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Sun Aug 5 12:25:30 EDT 2012


On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Beartooth wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Ed James wrote:
>
>> I've been bit before also, and it wasn't fun.
> 	[....]
>> Moral - don't trust somebody else's work.
> 	[....]
>
> 	Once, while I was at LC, one of the electricians took
> hold of something in a wiring cabinet that was supposed to've
> been cut off at a main switch on a lower floor -- and wasn't.
>
> 	The other guy grabbed him and dragged him off it. They
> were both hospitalized, but both lived.
>
> 	Moral as above.
>

this house we have was built sometime over 100 years ago.

shortly after we moved in we hired a family of licensed electricians to 
rewire it. when we were down in the basement looking over the project 
before starting i noticed that we had a lot of "knob an tube" wiring in 
the beams in the basement.

"Oh Mr Parr", I asked "do you think that stuff is still live?"

"Probably not but I will test it" was the answer.

It turned out it was still live. This expanded the amount of work that 
needed to be done. One of the skills of the Parr family of electricians 
was that they were very good at fishing wires through walls.

This is a three story wood frame house with 7 more or less bedrooms and 7 
baths (only 4 currently working). We have learned a very expensive lesson 
which is "don't buy a house built over 100 years ago unless you really 
enjoy home repair work". We should have been suspicious - it only cost 
$200,000 in 1982 with the kennel license and 23 acres.

I suspect there is still some knob and tube wiring lurking under the 
eaves.


>

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