Back in the day, a simple ground fault in a 1970s panel would've been a quick find, but this one in an old Portland bungalow took me nearly a full day to trace back to a single corroded neutral in a junction box behind the kitchen cabinets.

How do you guys even start on those old cloth-wired remodels without wanting to just rewire the whole house?

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That "single corroded neutral" you found is the perfect example. It feels like everything is like that now, not just wiring. You fix one small thing and find three more hidden problems. My old car, my phone, even the toaster. It's all layers of past fixes that just make the next job harder. Makes you want to start over from scratch sometimes.

wyatt_fox688d agoMost Upvoted

Honestly, the toaster part got me. You're telling me a simple toaster has hidden fixes now? That's wild. It's like nothing is built to last or even be fixed right the first time. You just keep finding bandaids on top of bandaids until the whole thing is a mess. Makes you wonder why we even bother trying to keep some of this stuff running.