
So how is it done then? Well, some may call it "guess work", but I call it skill an reasoning. When you look at the picture in this blog post, you see an old exterior outlet being used as a junction box.... that someone painted over... and that the door was half hanging off of. So needless to say when I, as a home inspector, see something like this it puts me on high alert. I wonder "if they were willing to do something like that, what else could they have done?".
Needless to say there was a lot more in this home's electrical system that looked a lot like this...