Your electrical system needs to match your needs figuring out where and how you’ll be using power makes it easier to frame the parameters of the job.Īnglo-Japanese spiderwebs light up when the vintage combination gas-electric ceiling fixture is on. Jon Crispin Steps to Safely Rewiring Your House Do an “electrical inventory”Ĭreating a list of all the devices you’ll be using in the house, and where. Follow these tips to get it done without causing undue-or irreparable-damage to your building. Old houses often need updates to electrical systems the author’s 1903 home was no exception. Yet efforts to update electrical systems can often result in damage to historic buildings.Ĭonversations with top electricians have provided us with a a list of steps to take in order to make rewiring proceed more smoothly, with fewer holes punched in the walls, floors, and ceilings-or, heaven forbid, a structural beam. So upgrading electrical systems is an essential task for a lot of old houses. Computers, blenders, TVs, even refrigerators-none of these existed when many historic homes were built and first wired.
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