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Mark7116 t1_isk6alb wrote

Pfft this isn’t anything. I rented a house several years ago, the secondary light in the kitchen was a crap shoot whether you were gonna get shocked when you pulled the metal chain to turn it on. Lol. The whole house has a total of FOUR breakers. The landlord was a home builder lol. Super nice guy, but tighter than bark on a tree. The “central air unit” was from 1985. The furnace was from the 50’s lol. I put in a ceiling fan in the master bedroom. When I took the old light down, (y’all will know the correct name for this) it was separate wires running side by side. NOT Romex or anything current. Lol. It was crazy. If you were doing laundry, you couldn’t make toast. Lol you’d trip a breaker.

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Can-DontAttitude t1_iskb7dq wrote

Knob and tube wiring? That’s a relic

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Mark7116 t1_iskjz4r wrote

I looked up what you said…yes. Lol. My mom’s house is the same way. Of course her house was built in the 1800’s. Her house actually has more value in tearing it down and repurposing all of the pieces of value. Like the cast iron coal chute door. The huge bannister that goes upstairs and wraps around. The porcelain door knobs. Some are porcelain and some are oblong metal. They all take what I call skeleton keys. Lol. Every bedroom upstairs has a transom window. My mom’s is way more unique than the one I rented. Lol.

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Can-DontAttitude t1_iskmanc wrote

The keys would’ve been either bar-and-bit or barrel-and-bit

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Mark7116 t1_iskpvmm wrote

You know more about my mom’s house than me. Lol barrel-and-bit it is.

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