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 ...

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 ...

Most insurers see homes with knob-and-tube wiring, aluminum wiring, and 60-amp service as high-risk, which prevents clients with those systems from easily obtaining home insurance. But are wiring ...

All these things can be major fire hazards. Add in the potential for deterioration due to age (sagging wires, fraying or crumbling insulation around the conductors, etc.), and some insurance companies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. My older home has had major ice dams this year and I realize I need to get some more insulation in my attic to help take care of the problem. However, someone told me I can't put insulation down on ...

I thought I'd finished with writing about knob and tube wiring, but readers raised a couple of good points this week, so I'll go one more time. Knob and tube is the earliest of the electrical wiring, ...