Older home crawl space *wiring*

[Joe Funderburk, CMI]

Originally Posted by jacaron

Thanks guys. I'll pass the info. to the inspector. He was not sure and I figured it was water.

The "inspector" wasn't sure, so he bounced it off you and you weren't sure. Isn't Florida a state that doesn't require licensing? I'm now strongly in the pro-licensing corner.

BTW. My wiring/cable is 1/2" copper soldered at the joints. The house was built in the 1800s. There is no insulation on it! Is this OK?

[Linas I. Dapkus]

Yeah the photo #'s are different DSC03732.jpg, DSC03806,DSC03807 [].JPG Backstroking??? It looks like PEX conduit to me. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Joe Funderburk, CMI]

If you look hard, you'll see some copper in that photo also. That must be the high voltage stuff.

[Linas I. Dapkus]

Originally Posted by jacaron

Hello Murder Board. I just got these two additional pictures from the supposed updated electrical system. Quite interesting I love the spaghetti exposed electrical wiring system and the chewed cloth wiring. No mentioned of glass fuses, most likely they were replaced by breakers.....that is a breaker box....... .Easy boys...

It's not a "murder board" It's quesionable how someone can post a PEX system and inquire it's relationship to an electrical system. Let's get real here.

[Doug Edwards, CMI]

Originally Posted by Marc D. Shunk

Around here, the insurance people starting to take a tour of the place themselves before they insure it. That's been a pretty steady source of work for me.

That would be the smart thing for them to do and maybe more will move in that direction. In my area most insurance offices are manned by women (I get the irony of that statement) and they have no intentions of going out to a property. Many moons ago a lot of insurance companies had their own inspectors on staff or retainer but I do not see that anymore. I have a couple of offices that call me regularly to do 4 Point inspections for their clients.

[Joe Funderburk, CMI]

The post was deleted. Got a little embarrassed I suspect, not knowing the difference between low-voltage PEX and high voltage copper.

[Andrew Cox]

My new house is wired with PEX, but my Realtor told me they had a class-action suit... something about water getting in and shorting it out. I don't know if it's low or high voltage PEX, though... what's the difference?

And Joe, rest easy - Florida will be getting licensure sometime, somewhere - if they can figure out how to pay for it!