All Forum Posts by: Luiggi Perdomo

I appreciate everyone's input. It seems like the best course of action is to just get the house rewired. I had budgeted about 2700 for the electrical.  According to the GC the house is mostly copper and aluminum wiring. I just spoke to him we got another quote for only 2500 more than the original budget. 

And I don't want any of those things @Steve McGovern mentioned to happen to me. 

Hopefully we can avoid any other surprises. 

I'm not sure what type of wiring is in the house. I just texted GC to tell me. I thought the sticker idea was kinda strange too but people were writing that it didn't affect their sale. They would use GFCI outlets rather than normal ones. The fix he proposed was rewiring the bedrooms and living room. 

So I'm doing a flip with my wife in Arlington, TX. We set aside some money to update the electrical in parts of the home. My contractor called me and said that the electrician says nothing in the house is grounded. To ground the whole house would be an additional 4,000. I looked on some of the forums around the site and people have mentioned that they didn't ground the outlets. They simply put a sticker on the outlets not grounded that disclosed that fact. The sticker would say something to the effect "No equipment ground"  In their jurisdiction that was fine. I was wondering if anyone in Arlington TX has run into this issue and how they handled it. Thanks in advance.