My house almost burned down yesterday!
This house has an extension off the south side that was done in the 70s and absolutely nothing about it is up to code. The wiring especially is so bad it's melted the plugs of space heaters before.
This outlet was the 1st drop in the kitchen. All the other outlets on that wall were daisy-chained off this outlet; that's why it almost caught fire. That backing plate must have been glowing bright red!!
Guess I'll be rewiring the kitchen sooner than planned...
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After the house nearly burned down, several other power outlets died. We now have only two working outlets in the kitchen, none in the dining room, and somehow, the only outlets still working in our back room are the ones on the far wall with the TV.
We have no way of heating the back room presently so I've just got a fan blowing into it constantly to keep it from freezing.
An electrician just came to look at it and give us an estimate...
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He confirmed what I had assumed: that none of the electrical in this house is up to code. They can't even work on our electric service drop box without replacing it because it's so old.
He didn't share any numbers with us, but I'm guessing just getting things working again is going to cost us between $3,000 and $5,000. And then I still have to have a heater (that won't burn the house down) installed.
This is going to hurt. 
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@mawr ...ick. Sorry you have to deal with that. Did they at least confirm which things you can use temporarily without the magic smoke/fire coming out?
