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Steve Barker LT Steve Barker LT is offline
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Default Knob & Tube and Cloth Shielded Wiring


"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
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This is REALLY bad advice. You cannot use cold water pipes as your
ground.


This is not necessarily true.

Unless the buyer does not need any sort of loan to buy, the wiring will
have to
be replaced. If they need financing, they will also need insurance, and
that
won't happen with Knob & Tube wiring.


This is not true either. Many companies don't ask or don't have a problem
with properly maintained K&T wiring.

There is nothing inherently bad about K&T wiring if it is in good
condition, but
there isn't an insurance company anywhere that I know of that will write a
new
policy for a house wired that way.


You need to look some more.

Steve Barker