Terence McCann Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Inspected an older home - 56 years old. OH service; in the garage there is a main 100 amp FP breaker with a sub-panel off of it feeding the AC and electric dryer (lot's wrong...). I searched that home high & low and could not find any other panel. I really spent an inordinate amount of time looking for it too. BTW, K&T throughout the home. Anyone ever run into this condition before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI in AR Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Are you sure about the age of the home? Doesn't at all seem right for knob and tube. I suspect the panel was in a bedroom closet hidden by clothes hanging there. That's how homes that age were commonly done around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 . . . Anyone ever run into this condition before? Yes. And it was a mid 50s home. The single main breaker in the garage actually fed three smaller main breakers, each of which fed it's own little bitty Square D sub panel. The sub panels were hidden behind cleverly constructed hatches in the gumwood panel walls. Even if you knew they were there, you couldn't see these hatches very easily -- and the owner had further concealed some of them by hanging pictures right in front of them. I was lucky. The seller left a note explaining where each one was. Otherwise, I probably woudn't have found them. There was one in each hallway and one in a utility room. - Jim Katen, Oregon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence McCann Posted July 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Thanks Jim. That really bothers me as I don't like to leave a home with something hanging like this. I have the code & it's unocc. I'll take a ride back there tomorrow on my own time and look again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence McCann Posted July 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Are you sure about the age of the home? Doesn't at all seem right for knob and tube. I suspect the panel was in a bedroom closet hidden by clothes hanging there. That's how homes that age were commonly done around here. Hi Kevin - we have a ton of homes with K&T in this age range in this neck of the woods. Runs from early 20's to, about, '68. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI in AR Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Around here, I don't ever see K&T in anything post WWII. In fact, by the late 30's or so it seemed to be dying out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Terry Look close in the closets. I have found them on the wall the door is hung on and of course the covers are painted the say as the walls. I have got up in the attic and found where the wires where going down to the panel and the panel was covered with wall paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 the panel was covered with wall paper. Sounds like they heard you'd be coming. [] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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