Some people have no couthLooks very nice, I had the same window trim and the floor trim was almost the same but it was about 10" tall in a 1880's home I gutted in Anderson 30 years ago. I stripped all of the trim in that house and refinished it in a lighter color.
When I sold the home on contract a few years later and after he had made the last payment he brought me through the house to show me the changes they had made.
They painted every ****ing piece of wood that I had stripped and refinished. Including the two quarter sawn oak bedroom wardrobes in the bedrooms and installed Pergo over all of the heart pine floors...
I was ill after seeing it.
One of the first things I did when I got my house was to begin ripping that cloth crap out and replacing it with proper Romex. There was one room that had a suspended ceiling and a three-way switch in it. When the switch was flipped, the lights would go out and according to my tester would energize the entire grid. There were junction boxes behind drywall, junctions that were not in boxes but just tape and tar fusing things together, nearly every light and socket on only two breakers, a real electrician's nightmare. Some cloth wire still remains for now, but I am 90% cloth free and grounded now.I started stripping all of the old wiring (that i can get to easily) out of the house, and I've found a couple of scary surprises.
This is old, cloth covered 12gauge wire.
It was live and running the bathroom lights.
When I pulled the wall open I found a mouse nest.
When I removed the nest, this is what I found.
The "green" wire on the right is corroded copper.
It should have black plastic insulation around it.
Not sure why mice would chew the insulation off, but this was the hot leg!
No telling how long it had been like this.
So glad it's all deenergized now.
Actually found a few chewed wiring spots, but this one is the worst, so far.
I'm lucky this place didn't burn down while I was trying to replace the wiring.
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Sometimes the best way to do something is to do it yourself.In-laws had an electrician add a light in their hallway. When the light was turned on, it would flicker and the bathroom light would flicker as well. Found he had connected to the bath light line, but crossed the wires. This was a two year old home.
Mice like to chew up that pex plumbing to.I started stripping all of the old wiring (that i can get to easily) out of the house, and I've found a couple of scary surprises.
This is old, cloth covered 12gauge wire.
It was live and running the bathroom lights.
When I pulled the wall open I found a mouse nest.
When I removed the nest, this is what I found.
The "green" wire on the right is corroded copper.
It should have black plastic insulation around it.
Not sure why mice would chew the insulation off, but this was the hot leg!
No telling how long it had been like this.
So glad it's all deenergized now.
Actually found a few chewed wiring spots, but this one is the worst, so far.
I'm lucky this place didn't burn down while I was trying to replace the wiring.
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What is a foxbody?Do I spy a Foxbody??
The red Mustang. Looks to be 1987-1993.What is a foxbody?
The red Mustang.What is a foxbody?
Probably is.The red Mustang. Looks to be 1987-1993.