What does your home inspector know about antique fuse panels?Mine knows plenty, but this home is not for sale yet, and I advised the owner to replace this fire hazard.
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I bet the panel is the best part or how some of these older homes were wired. I have seen connections without boxes, improperly grounded outlets and all sorts of scarey things in these houses.
Funny (or not so funny) thing is in the past few years I have seen more newer homes with electrical fires than I ever noticed in these older places.
Mike - I have also, but I think It's the law of averages, Like Trace adkins house, how in the world did that happen, and why didn't they just put it out with a fire extinguisher. It was an overloaded power strip in the garage that a construction worker was using. At least that's the story I read. People were home. fire alarms should have alerted everyone to put it out, but no, they just ran from the house until it burned down.
Larry - I have never seen an electrical panel like that before, how old is it?
Larry it does need to be replaced but this is one of those tricky areas where the seller will dig in because “it’s working” but a buyer should be afraid to sleep there.
This service looks like it could just melt off the wall. So easy to overload them. I bet the service is a 60 amp going out of the riser.
Looks good to me. Kinda pretty configuration.
I think my old old house in Omaha had one that looked like that. Everything is newer here in Vegas so I can't say I have seen one like that here!