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Originally Posted by John F
So what did you mean by your database comment?
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I thought it was rather obvious from context that—in Quoth's opinion—the government at whatever level does not maintain a database of household wiring from planning to as built to the building being demolished.
Going by my experience over the decades, the original drawings and the as built documentation is often useless even when it comes to items such as water cutoff valve locations. And then you have buildings built which were not even compliant with the building code when they were built never mind the current building codes.
Two acquaintances of mine found that their dream home (a Victorian era building) which needed quite a bit of renovation had knob and tube wiring in use. They had to rip and replace all the wiring to be able to insure their home. Like most of the renovations seen on TV, any resemblance between the final budget and the planned budget was more or less coincidental—just removing the shredded paper insulation and upgrading cost more than their original estimate.
Edit: could we wander much further from discussion of the Elipsa 2E without looping around the universe?