Q We purchased our home in July 2005. The house is about 120 years old and in great shape, but there’s a ton of knob-and-tube wiring. Someone mentioned recently that homes must have most or all of it ...

Knob-and-tube wiring can be found in homes from the early 1930's and older. It gets its name from the cloth wrapped hot and neutral wires that travel separately and use white porcelain knobs and tubes ...

Buying a home with knob and tube wiring? You should be concerned with the safety of the wiring and the insurability of the home. I'll discuss both in this post, but first, some background. Knob and ...

Question: I live in a beautiful home in San Roque that was built in the late 1920s and it still has the old original knob-and-tube style of electrical wiring. The original fuse box was removed and ...

The wiring in your home is the highway of power, feeding everything electrical in the household. Over time, parts of it can damage or deteriorate and may present a serious fire or shock hazard—but age ...

Q: We purchased our home in Palmyra, Pa., in July 2005. The house is about 120 years old and in great shape, but there's a ton of knob-and-tube wiring. Someone mentioned recently that homes must have ...

When lights began flickering in Katy Maeda’s wood-frame bungalow near Springfield’s Washington Park recently, Maeda called electrician Mike Lindsey. “I have a fear of fire. We had old screw-in fuses, ...

I’m buying a house in an older neighborhood to set up as a rental unit. The house has the older style knob and tube wiring, which is visible in the attic. I’d like to add insulation to the attic to ...

Modern Romex wiring has protective plastic insulation around each wire. This insulation is rated to 90 degrees Celsius. For those who don’t want to do the conversion, trust me, that’s hot. Hotter than ...