Could have been worse! Aluminum wiring, kid was running a gaming PC, dual monitor setup, a PlayStation and a mini fridge on a janky power bar. Fire department cut the receptacle out and threw it outside. Lucky.
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I bought a 1957 house and spent like $12k having it entirely rewired. Family thought I was nuts spending that much on something you can't see. But I don't want to die in an electrical fire. Plus, I needed some 220v outlets for my garage woodshop and redid the kitchen anyway.
It's like IT at a big corporation. People ignore it until it's a problem, don't want to spend the money. Then it's too late and you're fucked. Good thing it didn't happen when they were sleeping and take them with it.
Edit: This was not recent and I probably should of paid more. Don't expect to get an entire house rewired for 12k fyi.
If you've got it to spend, $12k is not bad for peace of mind.
12k barely covers the materials of rewiring a small bungalow. At that price you have to do all the manual labor yourself leaving only the panel to the electrician.
You can get peace of mind by having an electrician come by every year to certify the outlet connections and the panels..
This was 6ish years ago, 1,700 square foot ranch. Done by a master electrician. Took him a while doing it in his spare time/weekend was between jobs and he was a friend. So, probably should of cost like 15k+. I knew he wasn't charging me enough money so I didn't even get quotes.
I'm a semi-peofesional finish carpenter/woodworker. Take some jobs in that as a side gig, and build furniture. Have plenty of friends in the trades, I do them favors (people who know what they're doing with hardwood finish work aren't widely available from what I've seen) and have probably gotten more than my fair share of discount jobs done cuz I refinished a door or something well for a friend of a friend etc.