Wiring

Picture this. Your ceiling is installed and looking real tidy. It’s late, but there’s an hour or so before pack-up, and you know you’ll feel like a champion the next …

It can prompt some concerns to find out that wires are touching your dryer’s ducting. Or, perhaps, you are trying to find the best system for your ductwork, and it …

The space in your ceiling is limited, so when wires, insulation, ductwork, pipes, and more have to all fit together, there is bound to be contact. Sometimes, this contact is …

Electrical work has the potential to be confusing. I encountered my fair share of questions when wiring my grandmother’s basement with my uncle! Ceiling fans and their wiring are no …

Installing or swapping out a ceiling fan is probably one of the easier home DIYs out there as long as you can handle maneuvering all those fan blades! That said, …

When it comes to building code and wiring, things can seem very complicated. It’s a mess of terminology and footnotes, but thankfully, you aren’t going to have to decipher this …

Conduit is protective tubing that prevents wire damage. Electrical wiring doesn’t need a conduit to function, but it’s an important safety measure that decreases danger from shocks or fires. When …

A high school physics teacher was telling me that in her experience, the topic that students struggle with the most is electricity. For many of us, the confusion about electricity …

Done right, wiring an electric hot water heater with a storage tank should be a straightforward enough DIY project. If you’re like me, you don’t want to pass up the …