The preferred aluminum wiring repair method of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission involves attaching a piece of copper wire to the existing aluminum with a special connector, which is treated ...

Q. The home we just bought is 45 years old and has aluminum wiring for the outlets and lights. Our home inspector said this could be unsafe, so we hired an electrician. He attached short copper wires ...

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 ...

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 be a lot of disagreement about what should be ...

Aluminum strand wiring has been used by the electrical power companies for the transfer of electricity within their power grids for decades. It has been and is still used safely today. It’s the use of ...