Question: I live in a beautiful home in San Roque that was built in the late 1920s and it still has the old original knob-and-tube style of electrical wiring. The original fuse box was removed and ...

All these things can be major fire hazards. Add in the potential for deterioration due to age (sagging wires, fraying or crumbling insulation around the conductors, etc.), and some insurance companies ...

I thought I'd finished with writing about knob and tube wiring, but readers raised a couple of good points this week, so I'll go one more time. Knob and tube is the earliest of the electrical wiring, ...

I thought I’d finished with writing about knob-and-tube wiring, but readers raised a couple of good points this week, so I’ll go one more time. Knob and tube is the earliest of the electrical wiring, ...