Good points. I'd hate to accidentally energize the water lines. I've already replaced all the galvanized water lines with copper last year. The water meter is close to the electric meter so if I was placing the ground on the city side of the meter I might as well run it through the box. The box is grounded, it's just that most of the wires running to the box are 1950's two-wire 14 ga romex. The outer cover is cloth but the inner wires have plastic insulation. In the attic it's almost all knob & tube and some of the wires don't even have insulation on them any more which is BAD. This is why I was thinking I would just concentrate on the knob & tube wires for now and get to the newer old wires later. I've heard that having this done by a pro could be in the upper thousands and I don't want to invest that kind of cash in this place right now. To many other thing need done first...
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