Bill King, engineer at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC, 2004), indicates that if safety proponents do not deal with the issue of older residences and the inherent aging wiring systems, then the fire, fatality, injuries, and property losses have great potential for catastrophe. Homeowners generally upgrade construction components including roofs, windows, furnaces, and even electrical circuit breaker boxes or fuse panels. However, the remainder of the electrical wiring system is out of sight and unfortunately out of mind all too often. Wiring concealed in walls and their branch circuits are typically neglected and hardly ever are replaced (Lardear, p. 1, 2004).

While you may not consider it important to inform your clients that a component is (1) old, (2) no longer produced, (3) impossible to upgrade to current NEC standards for wiring protection, and (4) hard to find expensive replacement breakers for, some of us do.

Where you might permit your family to live in a house with an FPE, Zinsco, or Bulldog panel, most of us would not.

The majority disagrees with you.