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And, erm... considering it's two years after the fact, and realizing this is
a bit late to be asking... is there any risk of fire with the dead wiring in
the walls?

As always, thanks for your kind assistance. Help me Obi-Wan! You're my
only hope! (Well, my only hope other than calling an electrician and
opening up the finished walls. Eek.)

Thanks!

Donna


We recently had a problem in our condo when the upstairs neighbor was
nailing flooring and electricity for one of our circuits went out. It
tripped the breaker twice, but the guy wasn't easy to discourage. He
did it again, and then the breaker would not come back on. I knew
exactly where it occurred the first time, as I was sitting directly
below where he was working when the lights went out. The other times we
were not aware immediately, but when I went up to talk to him, he showed
me where he had been working .. about 8' from the breaker panel. When
the electrician came out, he first took the wire for the dead circuit
and connected it to another breaker to see if it was the breaker. It
didn't work on a good breaker, so he knew it was the wire. He detatched
it again and just pulled it out .. the wire had burned through entirely
and the insulation had numerous nail nicks. It burned through exactly
where the fellow had been working. This is wiring inside a metal
conduit. They had a tough time getting new wire through the conduit due
to the nails, but they did it. I was pretty impressed with the burned
wire and insulation. I kept it as a souveneir.