I was instaliing some new lights and stuff today. The home is older with the 2 wire "romex" with no ground. If you have run into this cloth insulted stuff you know the white and the black can be hard to identify, this home had a bad case. I found an apparent white that was the hot and a switched neutral in another area. 
I told the home owner that it was a violation and every plug and light should be checked for polarity and retagged with phase tape and polarity corrected. The home owner asked what the problem was and I said it was a shock hazard in relamping or servcing the equipment and it was not a fire hazard.
For my information can anybody see any other potentional hazards or functionality issues?
Thanks
I told the home owner that it was a violation and every plug and light should be checked for polarity and retagged with phase tape and polarity corrected. The home owner asked what the problem was and I said it was a shock hazard in relamping or servcing the equipment and it was not a fire hazard.For my information can anybody see any other potentional hazards or functionality issues?
Thanks