I need to replace a faulty breaker. Here’s a picture of my main breaker box. There’s no master switch that I can see that shuts off power to all of the breakers.

Following the line up and out of the box, it runs along the basement ceiling and out through a hole in the foundation.

Let me know if you need to see something else.

Edit. Resolved! I found a master switch on the outside of the house in a panel adjacent to the meter. Weird that anyone can just walk up to my house and turn all of the power off.

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    That would never pass inspection here… Might depend on where you live I guess

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      I toured a house that still had TL fuses and cloth-wrapped electrical…No inspection needed in 2025 if it passed in 1940 and was never updated!

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        That’s normal. It’s meant to be that way. You only have to get up to current code when making major changes, and only for what you’re changing. If you always had to be up to date, no one could afford to maintain a house: you’d be making changes every year.

        • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, I was just giving an example that inspections aren’t required. A less extreme example would be asbestos tiles/insulation but that’s not dangerous unless you damage it

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      3 days ago

      Lots of houses haven’t had an inspection since they were built, and code was almost always more relaxed.

      My parents built their house in the 70s, like my dad was a mason and he did all the brick, and any contractors for the rest was friends and family. And in a small county they all knew the inspector too.

      I’m sure lots of stuff was overlooked because it was “good enough” and when it was sold 5ish years ago it was “as is” because a ceiling fan on a dimmer wouldn’t have passed inspection.

      Like it wasn’t a lemon, everything was good.

      But the buyers couldn’t have known for sure because they waived inspection.

      Tldr:

      Lots of homes in America won’t/can’t pass inspection, and with the market someone is always willing to roll the dice to buy anyways.