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Your old wiring is a book on old house wiring and adding new wiring to old wiring the book starts out with stressing safety when wiring old wiring or new wiring one thing the author really hit on time after time is to use a tester even though you have turned the breaker off or pulled the fuse. Your old wiring david e shapiro mcgraw hill professional 2001 education 335 pages 0 reviews written by a master electrician this book shows homeowners and do it yourselfers how to go behind the walls of their old homes and correct messy outdated wiringpacked with over 250 photos and illustrations 10 common wiring projects like . Identifying old wiring the oldest type of wiring system found in homes is called knob and tube named for the insulating knobs and tubes are used to run the wiring along and through the house framing knob and tube wiring was run as individual wires one black hot wire and one white neutral wire throughout the home. The older homes are at double risk than newer ones because old electrical wiring was mostly aluminum rather than copper it is recommended to replace electrical wiring immediately if you recently bought an old property that is wired with aluminum wires signs you should replace old wiring the main signs include