The use of aluminium in wiring is unlikely to bring a smile to the face of anyone who has had to deal with it in a 1960s, or early 1970s-era house. The causes behind the fires and other accidents were ...

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

In houses built before 1990, inspectors keep circling back to one quiet but consequential problem: aging electrical systems that were never designed for today’s power-hungry lives. You might notice ...