On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 11:18:46 PM UTC-4, Micky wrote:
On Sun, 22 May 2016 06:13:22 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 12:03:43 AM UTC-4, Micky wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2016 17:50:14 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 1:07:52 PM UTC-4, bob haller wrote:
if anyone has K&T in a home, call state farm or other homeowners insurance companies, and ask about buying a new policy.

sorry no will be the response.

since anyone who buys a home with a mortage must have homeowners insurance. it makes the home impossible to sell......

Unless it sells for cash...

Hmm. I have a friend who bought a house like that about 4 years ago
and I don't think he had enough money to pay cash.

I liked it, because it was old, but he replaced all the wiring
himself, and a lot of other stuff. I don't know what he did about
insurance. I'm sure he bought some.

Here's an interesting coincidence...

My first recollection of knob and tube wring is noticing the remains of it at my
Great-Aunt's house. She was my beloved Godmother and I some a lot of time in her
house while growing up. The knobs and some of the cables could be seen in the
joist bays of the dirt floor basement. That wiring is one of my first recollections of
being interesting in how houses worked.

I think old houses inspire interest more readily.

My current house, which my Godmother gave me a chunk of money for, still has some
of the next generation wiring, braided cloth sheathed NM (what some people call
cloth covered Romex). On the jacket of some of the cable is the name of the manufacturer:
Narragansett.

That's a good island.

Ok, here comes the coincidence...

My Godmother's house is located on Narragansett Blvd. When I see that cable in my
basement, it often reminds me of Ciocia Josie and her really neat old house. I like to think
she's still around, still making sure I'm OK.

You haven't burned the house down have you? No serious traffic
accidents?

20 or 30 years after my grandmother got old, moved out of her house
where she and my GF had lived for 15 years, and moved in with her
daughter, around 1960, I went to see her house. The new owner (black,
fwiw)

It's not worth anything. Why would you even bother mentioning that?

had fixed it up nicely (much nicer than when my GP's had it) and
he showed me the basement, where he had found a target range. Only
about half of the basement was 8 feet deep, and the rest was about 3
feet deep and there was only the light that bounced in from the other
half (which didn't reach to the end), and at the far end of the second
part, he found targets, with holes in them. And bullets too. I
can't imagine it was my GF, so it was someone 1945 or earlier who used
that target range.