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I Have Electrical Wires Doubled Up On My Breakers Stated on our home inspection, the home inspector put that the wires are doubled up on and need to be repaired. What does this mean for the people who are trying to buy the house or…

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Quality Brand Of A GFCI Outlet I wanted to talk to you about a GFCI receptacle. A lot of people say GFI, which is fine. It is slang term. The proper terminology is ground fault circuit interrupter, GFCI. The generic ones don’t have a TR…

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Aluminum Copper Dissimilar Metals Connections Today, I want to talk to you about aluminum and copper. I don’t know if you were asleep during science class in 7th grade, but I was when the teacher was talking about the conductivity of different metals and precious…

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Aluminum To Copper Wire Connectors: An aluminum wired house means the whole house was wired with aluminum, instead of copper. When a house has aluminum to copper connections, this is when these two dissimilar metals connect between a device, such as an outlet, switch, lighting fixture…The issue comes…

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Ways to check if your home has aluminum wiring or dissimilar metals in it: 1. If your home is built sometime in the 60s, it is highly likely it has aluminum wiring. 2. Call the city or county jurisdiction you live in. Their records department…

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