Scary Find In my House By damin69 (Read 821 times)

[damin69]

So we are working on getting the basement finished off for Dad to move in. We had planned on running the wiring for the new bathroom that we are putting in the basement. We finished pulling down all the old sheet rock crap that was down there so we could start running new wiring. Well in pulling down the old ceiling down there we uncovered some pretty scary stuff which led to pretty much rewiring most of my house this weekend instead of running new wiring for new bathroom. We found that when they put up the dry wall for the Ceiling probably 30 years ago long before I bought the house the morons nailed right IN TO the electrical wiring. I am surprised that it never burned down the house... HUGE HUGE thanks to my Brother In law Timothy Hoffman for coming down this weekend and running all the wiring. I can sleep much better now knowing my house wiring is safe.

[dragonsparks]

Yup I'd say that was a Scary Find For Sure. That was done on purpose. I know that there are Really Stupid People in the world, But I can see no reason anyone would do that unless they were trying to say Burn the house down. If so they didn't do it right.

Dave





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[damin69]

Not done on Purpose but seems they were Very Careless. We just happen to find after pulling down the old dry wall ceiling.

[dragonsparks]

I don't know what part of the country you live in, but I can tell you that wiring is no less than 50 year's old. Even in a basement If Inspected would not pass code. The strapping used on wire was made for plumbing not electrical wiring. also the wire's would be run through hole's bored in wood to keep a way from nails.

Dave

P.S. Good luck

[wheezy]

Dragon's right. That wiring looks like a DIY job. Definitely it wasn't done by a licensed electrician. That nail was live the entire time just waiting to be grounded. Yikes.

Here is a real good doc on the right way to do it. The biggest mistake I see people make is not to use nail plates to protect the wiring.

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[damin69]

The wiring was Original. It was done in the early 40-50s and there really was not much for Codes back then. so the splicing and such actually is fine and is safe. The MORONS that did the DIY remodeling and nailed in to the wires is the scary part. I fell much better now that we have replaced all the old and updated to new.

[dragonsparks]

Yup I Would think so damin69. Just the photo's made me uneasy. Cause electricity don't play


Dave