My old boss had a non-working central vacuum in his old house. He used the conduit to wire cat5 through the house. It was a four (3+basement) story house. He had to do some creative fishtaping but ...

One branch runs up the plumbing chase (along with NM/Romex and MC or AC/metal clad electrical wiring) to the attic ... and it is all within the house's thermal envelope, so while I'd try to ...

We're remodeling our old house and have found a lot of ... it traveled through the framing. Both the old wiring and its holes serve as a conduit for rodents. Those holes can also lead to cold ...

If you’re adding an outlet, you need to use wire that’s the same gauge as the existing wiring. How do you tell your old ...

Q We purchased our home in July 2005. The house is about 120 years old and in great shape, but there’s a ton of knob-and-tube wiring. Someone mentioned recently that homes must have most or all ...

While insurance companies cast a wary eye toward knob and tube wiring, just about every home built before World War II has some of it, unless the house has been completely gutted and rewired.