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🎙️ Why Can Old Knob-and-Tube and Aluminum Wiring Can Cost You? · Lipps Electric Podcast

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Even if your wiring technically is legal to how it is today for knob and tube
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and aluminum, insurance companies won't cover a lot of these homes.
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Once they know that the aluminum is in there, and they know because home inspectors
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are starting to be required to tell them, or if they do let you keep it,
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they'll charge a higher premium.
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So the insurance piece is a big thing to consider when you're looking into this.
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Also, upgrading your service to maybe 200 amps, which wasn't,
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you know, that's not even big today.
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It's probably like the bare minimum, I would imagine, but some people have 100 or less service.
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So in order to get the new service, you need to put a new panel in the breakers and new wiring.