When we started to redo the basement, we realized the previous home owner was an idiot.
He had wired everything from a single breaker (on a 20 breaker box).
And he used 16 gauge wire (think lamp cord.)
And it all came together in one junction box in the basement ceiling. Of course, that part of the ceiling was the only part of the basement ceiling that used drywall so we couldn't easily get to it. The rest was soggy drop ceilings.
By "everything" I mean all upstairs wall switches and lights and all downstairs wall switches and lights. And both bathrooms. Everything but the kitchen and the outside outlets.
To top that off, he had "finished" the basement by glueing fake wood paneling to the cement walls. No stud walls in sight, the paneling was glued directly to the wall. You could see where the wiring in the wall ran, since the pandering had cracked along the lines of the wiring glued behind it on the wall.
Rewiring the whole house took the entire first month we lived there, but we didn't feel safe turning anything on until we were done.
The sad thing was, that wasn't the worst thing he had done to the house. Or the second worst.
Jerry Johnson
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Heh. In my old apartment in MN, the wiring was so bad (installed in the
40's outside the walls in conduit) that if I used my toaster and my
microwave, the voltage would drop enough my computer would lock. My
clocks were *always* wrong, too.
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