knob and tube wiring

[Volta]

Problem is we have instructors telling our agencies that you may not splice into K&T wiring and that you must run a home run from the panel, in order to do blow insulation in the attic. We always thought you could snip and tap from a junction box in the attic and continue from there? Need to find clear direction in the NEC to put this to rest..

250.130(C).

That is the section that will require you to usually fish to the basement. It won't disallow you from continuing to use the old K+T homeruns, but you have to properly bond the newly installed equipment grounding conductor in the NM.

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[weatherize01]

My brother works for a Weatherization company that gets fed funding. He was attending a meeting where a speaker stressed the importance of being more productive. The next speaker informed them that they had 28 days of required training to get in before the end of the year.:blink:

Boy, I have heard that many, many times. Each state is contracted with the Fed's through this ARRA program to complete a certain amount of houses,(pennsylvania 30,000), so the pressure has been on since 09 to get production,along with quality. Workers have been through training after training to learn to do Wx work, and this K&T issue has been a hot button for quite awhile.