@GWarner eh?

@TylerH You were last going into the attic to look at the wiring beyond the light fixture..

And I thought it was as good a point to enter into chat as anything.

2 months and dozens of chat messages ago...

You could check my profile to see I'm still alive, for future reference

Oh I may have, but I was mostly curious what you found out. I have a 50's area house with some questionable wiring myself.

@TylerH Oh it was nothing like that, unless the post was from 2018.

The issue was that I was using LEDs

LED bulbs apparently have some additional persnickety characteristics

you can't just stick them into any old socket

(or any new socket, for that matter)

Ahh. So you fixed it by deciding to go back to energy burners?

Well, I used CFLs

so still pretty energy efficient

but longterm I'll replace the whole fixture

CFLs tech is getting better too. I still have a few that take a minute to reach full brightness.

Full house rewire. One outlet to junction box per week in this summer heat.

I would like to do that but don't want to deal with patching drywall

the circuit allotment in my panel is not the most sensible, and I still have a few of the old black braided 20A circuits in place with no stamping or labeling... and no ground AFAICT

well, I think there's a poor man's grounding wire running from the panel to the crawlspace, attached to an old length of 1" pipe

but the length of pipe is only about 6 or 8 feet, and it's just resting on the ground, not in it (and there's 6mil plastic between it and the actual earth anyway

If I could send my gf on a trip out of town for a few weeks I'd probably get it all done then, have grounding rods put in, cut a few patches and rewire/re-distribute stuff on the right circuits

For ex our 1st circuit is all the ceiling lights... except the kitchen ceiling lights and the addition ceiling lights. OK, no biggie... except they also put the bathroom and microwave (countertop) outlets on it, too -_-

meanwhile circuit 2 is only our addition outlets (3 or 4 15amp outlets, tops), and circuit 3 is only addition lights (1 60W light/ceiling fan and 1 fluorescent lighting tube)

I can't fathom why, when they were doing the addition, they didn't run the bathroom on circuit 2 or 3 and just add the addition ceiling lights to the 1st circuit

it's well under the 80% with just the ceiling lights on it

Oh I'm avoiding drywall. Plan is to snake romex next to the same black braided wire you mention.

Its a small 'house'. Built as off base barracks for the enlisted back in 1950's, so its very basic.

Same, mine was a factory-style fab house, ~1000 sqft

that's with the addition

No insulation. Stucco on cent block inside and out, no drywall. One or two outlets per room. Everything except stove runs off one outlet, one 20 amp breaker.

Can't run coffeemaker and microwave at same time. But it's a project house.

sounds fun. There's a similar one near us that some woman out of state owns that we would love to buy and reno like that

we also had no insulation in our walls. That plus rain/termite damage (and chipmunks in the walls on occasion when we first moved in) meant that right by our front door where the light switch was, there was literally drywall, and then a bit of sawdust, and then vinyl siding

it didn't help that it was a rental to college students for like 12 years before we bought the place

It's currently divided into 3 small apartments, a triplex. Just upgrading electric for now. It needs a bit of work. It's good investment income for now at least.

That bad with the mites?

the window headers and rim joist looked fine from the inside but where absolutely destroyed from the outside

we found out because we wanted to replace the two window sets on the front of the house w/ bay windows

ended up rebuilding the entire front wall of the house from the sill plate up to the facia board

oh boy. code allow for using metal studs as replacement?

nah we just went with wood

modern PT wood is leagues better than what they would've used in the 50s, if it was even pressure treated back then

the biggest benefit though is we replaced the vinyl siding w/ hardi board and all the trim with solid PVC instead of wood, both back caulked the whole way

so while the rest of the house is probably in similar shape (we are too scared to look X-D), the front of our house looks damn good and is rock solid (and will be for another 50 years, easy)

True. I'm good so far as structural damage by termites. But the Florida humidity and rain can be bad for old wood. Roof needs some repair and I just found out too late about

heavy rains and one room get about an inch of water.. I hope its not the slab

Similar issue with parent's house that you had. But mostly just the entry. Entire front door (and adjoining glass panels) could've been pushed over with enough force. Everything structural was replaced with metal and trim and such replaced.

All of the houses built by that company had/have that flaw. Problem was prefab entryways bought in bulk for volume contrstruction