Buying a home with aluminum wiring? The seller will probably tell you it's perfectly fine, has never been a problem, and there's nothing to worry about. We've heard this story many times. I blogged ...

David Hannemann and his wife were aware when they bought their Ellicott City, Md., home 18 years ago that it had aluminum electrical wiring, a known fire hazard. But they waited until this February to ...

At one time, aluminum was considered semiprecious. During World War II, aluminum production went into high gear as the material was needed to build airplanes and other war machines. After the war, ...

QDEAR BARRY: My home was built in 1970 and has aluminum wiring for the wall outlets. My home inspector said this could be unsafe, so I hired an electrician. He connected short copper wires to all of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...