Any electricians? Need some advice

[Ron61]

Fsstnotch,

Steve has been in the building business for many years and knows what he is talking about. One thing I would suggest, get a good volt/ohm meter and check the leads from your existing breaking panel. Turn one breaker off and then see which outlets and lights you lose. Make a drawing of this. Once you know which breaker feeds which rooms, outlets, & etc, then you can plan your rewiring easier. I have rewired a couple of these old Dam shacks out here and they were a combination of knob and tube and Rolex, usually in no logical order. I ripped out all of the old knob and tube and ran new Rolex. I also added a breaker box if there wasn't enough breakers in the old one and there never were as they didn't have codes in those days. Now here a rewire has to meed code and I think you are allowed 6 or 7 outlets per breaker and the lights are on separate breakers and only require #14 Rolex. The outlets require #12 and all boxes, lights, even a doorbell box must be grounded. I would check with you local code officer as I know the codes vary from state. It is illegal here to use both knob and tube so you have to rewire the old knob and tube with Rolex. Since they never insulated the walls back then and the wiring wasn't stapled, I would trace the old two wire to whichever room it went to and then cut it off at the breaker and tie the new Rolex to it and carefully pull it through the walls until it came out where the old wire did. The hardest thing about wiring a house is to have to go in after it has been finished and do a rewire. But you can do it. Just follow Steve's advice.

Ron