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 ...

Q: My home was built around 1970 and the electrical wiring is aluminum. I’ve never noticed any of the danger signs commonly associated with aluminum wire, such as warm face plates on outlets and ...

Q We recently purchased a 12-year-old house, and our home inspector failed to mention the aluminum wire that runs from the main service panel to the heater. It was discovered when we hired an ...

An estimated 2 million homes in the United States were built or renovated using electrical circuits with aluminum wiring, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. And unless certain ...

Electrical fires rarely start with a dramatic spark. Far more often, they begin quietly inside walls, where aging conductors ...

Nearly 200,000 homes burn each year because of faulty electrical wiring. In most cases, there were warning signs. The key is to know what to look for. Is there a fire hazard hidden behind your walls?

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 ...

In houses built before 1990, inspectors keep circling back to one quiet but consequential problem: aging electrical systems ...