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Author Re: Knob and Tube BETA-33
hallerb@aol.com

2008-02-06, 5:25 pm

On Feb 6, 1:01=EF=BF=BDpm, bud-- <remove.budn...@isp.com> wrote:
> hall...@aol.com wrote:
>
> The only links I remember on K&T (originally posted by Phil Munro) are:htt=

p://www.waptac.org/sp.asp?id=3D7190
> is a report to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
> on adding building insulation around existing K&T wiring. No record of
> hazard was found in the large number of K&T installations that had
> insulation added around them. (Larry Seekon, whose comments are quoted
> was head electrical inspector in Minneapolis.)
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20040825...e.gov/pfr/in...
> =EF=BF=BD orhttp://tinyurl.com/297uk7
> is the record of a complaint to the Maine state Bureau of Insurance by a
> homeowner against an insurance company. The insurance company denied
> renewal of a policy based on K&T wiring. The insurance company was
> ordered to renew the policy because the insurance company "provided no
> justification for its position that knob and tube wiring per se
> automatically provides grounds for nonrenewal".
>
> Where are your links that show a hazard of K&T wiring in contact with
> insulation? The Illinois investigation couldn't find a hazard but you
> must have better information than Illinois had.
>
> Where are your links that show the fire hazard of K&T wiring? The
> insurance company in Maine couldn't produce evidence of a hazard, but
> you must have better information than the insurance company had.
>
> I eagerly await your reply.
>
> --
> bud--


well heres the real world discussion of K&T
http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search...1bbc8d40196836=
2eb3fcd3b0f02818301455c7eeeb952685b&invocationType=3Dkeyword_rollover&ie=3DU=
TF-8

why does no one follow the link I poted earlier, or even the
discussion of a bunch of people reporting real worlds experiences on
this topic
LinkBot





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