Really good post. It is continually amazing how these things are set up

Wow Charlie!  With the title, I thought you were going to be talking about Folk Music and Malvina Reynolds.  Instead its just more of those boring electrical problems.  Seriously, what are people thinking?

Charlie, thanks for stopping by

David, glad to see you playing in the rain---have fun next week:)---I am off to an inspection this morning.

HHHMMM, Pickie pickie pickie, sooooo someone might get a little jolt!!! Quite surprising.

Sean Allen

Charles, Picky, picky! At least the connections were in a junction box.  Who cares if the junction box and the wiring all goes up in smoke?  I thought that we were not supposed to open junction boxes -- LOL! As long as we are in the home inspection business, we will never run out of blog fodder will we?

Hey, so the guy was a carpenter and not an electrician.  He figured that wood in non-conductive, so why not.  Wire nuts are pointed up so water won't sit in them.  What else do you want?

Hey I like the title of your blog!!! That looks horrible, I used to work a lot with electrical and stuff, No way that would fly!!

It is unfortunate that one of the most dangerous aspects of a house, the electrical system, often has some of the most defects.

Sean, I hate it when I get in nit-pick mode:)

Michael, don't you suppose in the early days of electicity that junction boxes probably were wooden?  I have found old wooden service panels lined with asbestos before.

David, the wire nuts are up so that water will follow the wire inside the sheathing----water cooled:)

Andy, hopefully you all have that song stuck in your head:)

Joseph, tooo true!