Here at Structure Tech, we teach a ton of continuing education classes to real estate agents. For our Home Inspection Horrors class, we cover the known hazards with aluminum wiring and the options for ...

Someone who decides to build a house faces a daunting task. It’s hard enough to act as the general contractor for someone else, but when you decide to build your own house, as my parents did in the ...

QDEAR BARRY: My home was built in 1970 and has aluminum wiring for the wall outlets. My home inspector said this could be unsafe, so I hired an electrician. He connected short copper wires to all of ...

At one time, aluminum was considered semiprecious. During World War II, aluminum production went into high gear as the material was needed to build airplanes and other war machines. After the war, ...

When you think about electrical work at home, you probably picture dramatic fixes like rewiring a whole house or replacing a charred outlet after a short. The repair that quietly shapes your safety, ...

Buying a Minnesota home with old aluminum wiring? While the hazards associated with aluminum branch circuit conductors in homes have been known about for nearly the last 40 years, there still seems to ...

Electrical work rarely happens in isolation. Once you open walls, touch a service panel, or replace aging components, you can cross a line where the law stops treating the job as a simple repair and ...