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Old 03-21-2008, 03:18 PM
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Well you do have some work to do but take your time and get it right. Wish I was close enough to help as that is one thing that I can do. I have wired several houses around here and some of those old ones were really hard. One when I got into the attic had one long two wire from the breaker box the length of the attic and they had just stripped places in it and wound other old two wire around them to feed off to the various rooms. That was the worst I ever saw and how that old house never caught on fire is beyond me. And the old breaker box had one fuse that fed that main wire. I always went over and talked to our code officer as it is to much work to have to do over if you put to many outlets or lights on one breaker.
Steve has good ideas. My house is a pier and beam as I wanted some space under it and the one really cold Winter we had here since I built it, I was the only one around here that had water. Then when the piper that had frozen and burst started thawing, many of the houses had them ran through the attic and of course the ceilings fell in. The dead air space under the house where mine are kept them from freezing and the one 4' length that I have which is exposed to outside air I had wrapped with insulation. Mine could stand some new insulation in a few spots, but I have twice the required insulation in and it is relatively efficient but nothing compared to the new houses.
Now where did I put that Rolex I bought to do the garage????

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