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house wired without separate ground - problem?
wrote in message oups.com... Bob F wrote: "Nate Nagel" wrote in message ... All right, I'm feeling mildly dumb and a little sheepish not to mention slightly sick here... just bought a house for the first time less than a month ago, and knew that it had some minor wiring "issues" but now that I'm assessing what I have it appears that there are bigger issues than previously anticipated. Anyway, here's the deal. House is a two story colonial with full basement, built late 1940's. It appears that throughout the house wherever the wiring was hidden behind plaster it was run in NM not BX and there is no grounding, period. It's also possible that the wiring could be knob-and-tube in a house of that age. Bob Knob and tube went out before the 1940's in almost all parts of the United States which is where the OP is from, I think. My first house, built in 1948, had knob and tube. Bob |
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