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Old 7/4/11, 4:12 PM
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Default Electric Walls?

How about this for an inspection on the 4th of July? The house is a 1965 concrete block house. There was a mixture of grounded and false grounded (3 prong) outlets in the house. This was fun!
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There could be a cable embedded in the wall.
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Or behind the drywall.



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I have that same tic tracer...it is extremely sensitive...



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