My wife and I stopped by the house two nights ago to check on the progress of the electrical work. We knew based off a prior inspection that the old house we purchased needed some work since there was old knob and tube wiring in there. There's only so much an inspector's going to be able to tell you about this kind of thing without tearing holes into the walls... Anyways, so we stopped by to talk to the people doing the work. Holy cow, they have to redo the wiring for the entire house. The lead claimed that it was the worst he's seen in 30+ years. There were junction boxes with 9 or more wires coming out of it where there were only supposed to be 4. Frayed wires screwed onto beams that were fire hazards... His suspicion was that the prior owners did their own electrical work, to be honest I wouldn't be surprised. He also showed us a few examples just for the sake of showing us.
On top of that, the people we bought it from who flipped it did piss-poor work as well! The kitchen appliances weren't being supplied with proper power, some of the boxes for their plugs were hiding under the cabinets next to them. I was never much impressed with the flip, and I`m even less impressed now.
We were expecting that the electrical was going to be a big job. The master electrician said it would be ballpark $6000 and done this weekend. Given the scope of what`s going on I can only hope it`s all going to be sewed up by the time we move in mid next week (or we`ll be living in a pile of dust)!
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