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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I've only seen 2 conductor Romex in use once. The old family cabin used black plastic 2 wire Romex to connect the outhouse (2 light sockets and an outlet) to the main building....the Romex was strung overhead from tree to tree. This was done sometime in the mid 60s-mid 70's when electricity became available there.
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OK I figured out what is in my house, its first generation Non-Metallic Sheathed Wiring, aka Romex like I was stating before, the stuff in my place uses a rubberized cloth outer sheathing and rubber insulated solid copper conductors, from what I was reading that kind of wiring only had a 25 year life expectancy and should be updated, unfortunately whenever I've pointed that out to my landlord he brushes it off.
Anyways the way this house is currently wired up, they have a mixture of original wirirng and modern wiring (where they spliced modern wiring into old wiring to extend or add to a circuit) and they installed modern grounded outlets and switches without any actual ground wires to speak of to hook to the aforementioned grounded outlets and switches, they even have several 10 amp breakers running 2 rooms worth of outlets which makes it difficult to run anything like a vacuum without popping a breaker.
That's just to give you an idea of what i have to work with in my house, wiring wise, unfortunately its not my place, I'm just a renter so I can't do anything about the wiring in the house.
See pictures below.