When NOT to Re-Wire a House. In what you can do instead! 

The rifle vs shotgun analogy is pure gold.

Its hard to get old homes to hold on AFCI/GFCI breakers because of the shared neutrals usually

You are 100% on it. Thanks Sir.

I live in a one story house with a 4ft crawl space all under the house, do they have to destroy my walls to rewire

Excellent explaination. I got a problem in my home. We purchased the property last month and the house was built in mid 70s. Lights and other appliances are working fine. I am renovating some rooms installaing dry wallsvceilings and some spot lights in every room. Our guy building ceilings when installed spot lights spreaded around the room are not completely ON. One side work others not. He is not a professional electrician but advice to rewire the house because low voltage. Rewiring a house is a long process. We called a professional electrician and he advised to change the old circuit breaker. We are willing to change but my question after replacing the circuit breaker box the problem will be solved where we have low voltage in our rooms? Thanks

Awesome explanation!!

Another reason we do a lot of house re-wires post 1950's is being here in Hawaii with all the salt and humidity in the air. Thanks for all you do Coach! 🤙

My main issue is that our house was built in the 70s, the entire house other than the Stove, AC, and water heater is on two-60amp breakers. That's it. All outlets, all lights, all switches are all on the same breaker (there are also 2 outdoor outlets as well). I am curious if it would be worth it to either 1) rewire only parts (such as outdoor lights and outlets going to one breaker, fridge going to one breaker, rooms groups going to one breaker, and bathrooms going to one breaker). or 2) essentially rewire the entire house. Most of the junctions are in switch boxes, not the light fixtures (because there hardly were any). Most of the wires look in really good condition.

Thanks Coach

thank you. may god continue to bless you

Great content, thanks.

My apartment in UK is 1965 build. Electrician is like it needs full rewire. Cause his excuse is the watts of machines, cooker is much higher now so it's too much strain. Mmm i don't want to spend $4k when my apartment has been renovated already.

i bought a 1959 home this year i upgraded my panel.but the wires inside the wall has no ground wires.should i replace all the breakers on the panel with afci breakers?thanks

bro has an mpc out here making beats and twisting wire nuts lmaooo

How can i find a good electrician that wont over price their work? I dont mind paying a fair price. How do i figure out a fair price?

In the minority of cases, ( in my experience) 1950's or earlier. I would recommend a complete electrical upgrade. From soup to nuts. First of all, the value which is added to the property afterwards is significantly greater than the cost of the project. Secondly, why take the risk? Even with inspecting all visually accessible wiring, who's to say that the inaccessible wiring isn't compromised.

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Definitely update the panel and add branch circuits. Upgrade the service if you can afford it. EVs will be a thing whether you like it or not.

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Mine was built in 1890 and is "livable". No AC and needs everything redone! Quite the project. New electrical panel, lifted the floors with foundation work and had a new well drilled so far. Much more to go!

Excellent explanation brother, thank you for your time and effort putting this videos together!

Also most pre 1950 homes have either cloth or knob and tube or both. In which case most good electricians will not renovate it without doing a rewire. My uncle's house was pre 1950 and he lost money on ithe sale because he had knob and tube wiring.

Definitely glade I found this channel

Another mention I might add is aluminum small wire branch circuits…. Either replacing receptacles and switches with Al/cu connections or using a listed connection to transition to cu and make the connection from there.

You need wiring with proper amp, circuit breaker, wire gauge with ground and outlet.

what about the simple fact of just not having ground wires in any boxes for outlets and switches just bought the house and was trying to get new ones and noticed that

Thank you for the info. Can you also comment on if I upgrade my pushomatic breaker box and do I need to add a ground and then if I add a ground, what do I need to do with all the outlets?

I have a 1960 house and would like to upgrade the panel, but I was never sure if that meant I would have to rewire the house to add a ground wire.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Very much appreciated.

I’m in the testing center . If you ask for 75 degree C , for a specific insulation , which is listed in the 75 degree c column , why is the answer wrong ? The correct answer was in the 90 degree c column . My wire was listed in both columns but the question asked about 75 degree C . I’m wondering because , 75 degree C has a column and I was correct when using it on another question so I’m like ... what happened ?

Hello fellow tennesseean here. Ive got a 1949 house that has undergone half modernization with expansions. But the original 3 bedrooms are completely ungrounded. And we have computers and stuff we just can't use. Is there anyway to be able to run ground wire to these older outlets, or a way to test if the steel boxes themselves were grounded by chance?

Keep up the good work!!!!