Millions of homes still have it, and the experts can't quite agree.

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 The condo I'm buying has aluminum wiring. According to my home inspector this is a fire hazard. But he says correcting the problem in the unit I'm buying doesn't eliminate the issue entirely because ...

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 ...

If you have aluminum wiring in your house, you might have a fire waiting to happen. Many houses built or renovated between 1965 and 1972 were wired with aluminum instead of copper, and those are 55 ...

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 ...

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?

In the late 1960s and early 1970s aluminum wiring was sometimes substituted for copper wiring in residential electrical systems due to the sudden escalating price of copper. Although properly ...