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Running Electrical Wire through insulation
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Regular modern romex wire is fine.
You can’t insulate over old knob and tube since the cloth insulation degrades and flakes off.
Tell that to the maniac who wired my house 95 years ago.
The guy wiring with knob and tube was probably not the maniac who put insulation over it at a later date.
AFAICT it was all done in a four-year period from 1926 to 1929 and untouched until I ripped the ceiling open in 2018.
This is thankfully not knob and tube. The house is old enough for it though. Going in the attic you can see where the wires used to run