Juan has been a home inspector for 10 years and runs a successful home inspection company in Richmond, VA. He loves inspecting homes, but his real passion is educating home owners and newer inspectors ...

Electrical boxes are the hidden workhorses of your home’s electrical system. They house the connections between wires, providing power to outlets, switches, and fixtures throughout your house. But ...

After spending all my professional career in the electrical industry, 25 of which were in the electrical contracting side of the business, I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly side of ...

The first artificial source of light was nothing more than a burning stick -- about a million years ago. About 5,000 years ago, a wick and some oil in a clay jar became the first lamp and replaced the ...

Even if you are not ready to pay for electricity, do basic conduits where the wires will pay when ready. Peter Mabirizi, an engineer with Plenco Plumbing and Engineering Company, describes a home’s ...

From gardens to patios, outdoor electrical boxes often stand out for the wrong reasons. Smart DIY solutions can help them ...

There’s really no problem in replacing an existing light fixture with a ceiling fan in terms of the electrical needs. But what you really have to be careful of is to make sure the electrical box that ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a hassle-free way to attach a lighting fixture to a ceiling," said an inventor, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, "so I invented the MAGIC ...