Old wiring
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Old wiring
My NY 1928 Cape has armored wiring in the walls and cielings, which has the old and cracked cloth covered wire inside the armor. I want to know if I can pull this old wire out and reinsert new wire? My issue is that I do not care to tear out all of the drywall that is in place. There are only a few lines that I cannot replace easily like in the basement and actic.
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Just to add, your existing receptacles almost certainly do not meet modern spacing requirements anyway; so while you're into the drywall, you can add new receptacles where they are required.
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If the only wires that are hard to replace are in the attic and basement you might consider just running surface race or surface mounted conduit if the area appearance isn't critical. Not knowing the location of your panel I'm only guessing but at most it seems you might only need to cut out one section of sheet rock at the panel to run several circuits to a central Jbox in the attic and basement. Or again if appearance wcouldn't be a critical factor run conduit carrying several circuits to each area on the outside of the house to avoid any Sheetrock work.