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That old house in Springfield had a three-way switch puzzle that took me a full day to figure out
Got called out for a flickering light in a 1940s home, and the wiring was a mess of old cloth-covered stuff. I traced it for hours, thinking it was a bad connection at the fixture. Turned out someone had wired the traveler for the other three-way switch into the neutral bundle in the attic junction box, which was buried under insulation. It took me about 8 hours total to finally track it down. Anyone else run into a weird old three-way setup that just didn't make sense?
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the_nina7mo ago
Oh man, that attic junction box thing is the worst. I swear half the weird flickers in old houses come from a buried box up there. My go-to move now is to just pull all the attic insulation back from any junction I can find first thing. Saves so much time chasing ghosts in the walls. Found a switch leg just wire-nutted and tossed on top of a ceiling joist once, no box at all.
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wilson.sarah7mo ago
Disagree about pulling all the insulation back right away. Creates a huge mess and stirs up all that dust and fiberglass. I map the circuit first with a toner to find the general area, then only disturb what I need to.
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miles727mo ago
Yeah, that toner trick is a total game changer.
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