Saw a 1960s house with original wiring get rewired last month in Austin

Back in '98 when I was green, we used to run BX cable through everything and now it's all NM-B with AFCI breakers required in every bedroom, and the old sparky who taught me would probably cuss out the inspector for even bringing up arc faults, but honestly after seeing what old cloth wire does to a house fire risk I get why they changed it, anyone else notice how different the code book feels every 5 years?

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the_mary20d ago

18 years with cloth wiring and my house never caught fire once.

the_ruby20d ago

Bet on it working until it doesn't, that's the thing with old wiring. It's not the cloth itself that's the problem, it's the insulation turning to dust inside the walls.

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