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Judging from your posts, and knowing some of the people down there, you'd be better off inspecting it yourself.

That isn't in Indian Creek is it?

He's been here and left already, back in December. He did miss a few things though. And I AM going through this place with a fine toothed comb, and some mysteries have already been unveiled.

Birch Valley actually. Indian Creek's down New Falls Road. (Home of the BIG Ranchers, Junior Jubilees and BIG Levittowners, and 3 burned houses.)


Ian A.

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I bet there are more to come too....

Good luck with your project, keep us posted.

I find that I often prefer the older style of fittings to the modern.

I've seen some of those "home makeover" shows where they rip out an old room and refurbish it, they're gushing over how wonderful and modern it looks, and I'm sitting there thinking that they've completely ruined the place and it looked much better before.

We almost lost this house in a bidding war with a general contractor who has bought quite a few of these houses and destroyed them. The family (it was an estate sale) sold it to us knowing we wouldn't demolish it.

Ian A.

As I discovered today while replacing a broken wall-plate, these aren't the worst of the problems.

Ian A.

PS: Why is it that a broken wall plate keeping me from plugging the computer in, quickly turns into a $100 shopping list that will be put off forever? Heck, the problems I mentioned above (20volts) still haven't been fixed. Ughh.

It always seems like small problems snowball. About two years ago I had something like the broken wallplate, and have sence rewired most of my house. Just be careful & good luck.

Hey guys I'm just posting an update for anyone that's interested. (Bill or mod, if I'm not allowed to do this delete it.)

4 switches have been replaced, 3 were double-lugged on the hots, 1 was just old (1955 Leviton-Made in USA!) and didn't work. I only have 2 more "carpenter" (handyman works better) specials to inspect/replace.

3 old-don't hold receptacles have been replaced, 2 with the appropriate ungrounded models, 1 with a GFCI.

Five switches and recepts have had their counter-clockwise wires fixed.

Oh, and today while replacing a light switch (which I forgot to mark off the three cables to where they go...) I wound up ripping down a chandalier to fix a hot-neutral reversal. That mess took a good two hours to find/troubleshoot, after which I relaxed with a medium pizza and 2 liter of Pepsi from Parkway Pizza.

Tomorrow's agenda, blank off an old, now unused fireplace switch while looking for more double-lugs.

After that? Going to the township to pull a permit for a new bedroom wall A/C, new ceiling fan, and a garage rewire!

Oh, and what I said earlier about 14/2 on a 20amp circuit, that is confirmed. IT will be fixed, eventually, it's only item #4001 on a 4000 item list.

That's it it's nap time,
Happy Independence Day to everyone in the U.S,
Ian A.

Updates are always welcome Ian. It's good to hear that bad things we've seen here are getting fixed.

I just found and uploaded some more pics from our home inspection to the ECN photo site, and here they are.

Old 1-15 switch/receptacle combo.


The downstairs 9X12 bedroom has four receptacles like this, and they can't even be removed because of that paneling!


Cut seal on the meter.


Also, the closet in the first pic (with the dangling RG-59 and asbestos floors) is slated for asbestos abatement because of that floor...

Ian A.