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Found a live wire in a wall I was about to cut into last week
It was in a 1950s house in Columbus, the old cloth wire was still hot and not on any of the circuits I killed. Anyone else run into this with old knob and tube that got buried?
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grace5652mo ago
Scares me every time. Found a hot line in my own attic once, just dangling there like a party streamer. That old cloth insulation crumbles if you look at it wrong. You really have to test every single wire like it wants to kill you, even with the main off. Some old-timer just left live wires in the walls and called it a day.
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