On 7/6/2011 10:45 PM, bob haller wrote:
On Jul 6, 3:31 pm, wrote:
On 7/5/2011 10:38 PM, bob haller wrote:

but I pride myself in giving the best advice here I can. and stand by
replace K&T at every opportunity.

Yes, best advice like your link to a report from the "Pennsylvania
Department of Community and Economic Development" that says "properly
installed and unaltered K&T wiring is not an inherent fire hazard". They
do not "replace K&T at every opportunity". And they insulate over K&T.
In Pennsylvania!!!! From YOUR link.

Hey - isn't that where you live? If I was you I would move somewhere else.

And best advice like your link that says "the wires in knob-and-tube are
aluminum" which is a problem because copper and aluminum "carry current
at slightly different speeds" and "copper into aluminum is where things
get tricky - if the water (current) flows faster thru copper than thru
aluminum, you are going to get a backup at that junction."

And your link that says "no ground wire, [makes] the use of GFCI style
electrical outlets (receptacles) and GFCI and AFCI breakers useless".

I am more interested in reliable sources, like Mike Holt's site. It has
real electricians, and they view K&T as something that you work with.

Electricians here don't share your fetish either.

Perhaps you could be "deprogramed".

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i didnt [sic]post any of those links......


You posted all those links.

A couple were in a google search.
"GFCI/AFCI" was number 2 in the search.
"Aluminum" was somewhere in the top 10.
"Pennsylvania Department" was a link only to that document.

All yours.

Maybe you should read what you post. But then you seem to have a problem
with reading comprehension.

Maybe deprogrammng would help that too.

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