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Just blathering, if you don't like hearing white people stuff, move along to your nigger posts...

home was built in the '40s sometime, wifes folks bought from the bank in the early 70's and he sorta patched the electrical together with scraps from work (water well driller/pump servicing). Not much in the way of junction boxes, more the "twist wires together and wind a roll of tape on it" kind of approach.... and with 10/2 direct burial stuff. It's stiff as hell if you don't know what that is. Outlets were in series, so if one outlet died, it took out everything downstream and the Hell if I know how he managed to cram 2 runs of that wire And an outlet in the tiny ass metal boxes (not as big as the smallest 18cu boxes sold today). Any runs that had a ground wire, he snipped off outside the box so nothing was grounded, though people (was a rental for ~20 years) changed some of the outlets to 3 prong. Breakers would have 3 or 4 rooms one them, not all of the outlets, just one here and there. Some of the wiring Had to be original to the house, cloth? wrapped (disintegrated when touched), paper around the wires, only hot and neutral and those outlets were predominately 2-prong with boxes that screwed into backing wood from the drywall side... very strange.

Anyway, fuck all that... the wire is in a pile outside the house now. Each room on its own breaker, or rather there are no outlets on a breaker that aren't in the room listed (kitchen has 3 so we can run all the appliances at once without issue). All outlets are in parallel instead of series, wires in junction boxes with covers, everything's grounded with GFCI where required in the kitchen and bathroom. I may just be a hack diy homeowner that'd get laughed out the building by a pro but it's a fuck ton better than it was. First thing I noticed was that indicator lights (like the ground led on the freezer) no longer flickered on and off.

Feels good to have done this. Was less than $500 in materials, about 4 full days for the outlets (did the lights last year when I braced the ceiling joists and added r38 insulation batts to the r19 that was already up there). Couldn't even get an electrician to call me back about doing this, but was basically willing to spent $10k. Fuck them.

The old wiring "snaps" and "crackles" when folded.... I get house fires now.... especially in the freak cold when people supplement with space heaters.