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Vent: That 3-way switch in a 1920s house took me 4 hours
I thought I could swap out a 3-way switch in an old house in like 30 minutes. Turned out the traveler wires were all labeled wrong and the box was packed with cloth wiring. Has anyone else run into ancient wiring that just eats your whole day for a simple job?
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oscarh161d ago
Dude, four hours is rough, I feel your pain lol. I had a similar mess in a 1930s house where the previous guy had used black tape to "fix" a broken traveler wire. What finally worked for me was just taking a photo of the original wiring before I touched anything, then using a multimeter to test each wire one by one. It added like 15 minutes but saved me from guessing which wire was supposed to go where. Cloth wiring is the worst, man, it always fights you.
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