Regarding the Jan. 28 Ask the Inspector response in “Older Electrical Outlets Were a Jolt”: I don’t think that two-prong outlets are a defect that must be listed by a home inspector. In a 50-year-old ...
Ask an electrician which way a receptacle, aka outlet, should be installed: “Ground up or down?” Typically, the answer is “both are fine,” though most of us have a preference. The National Electrical ...
Fixing things yourself is the affordable and fun way to do home maintenance, but many common DIY decisions can actually lead ...
Underlined text indicates a change in the rules for the 2017 NEC. A. As outlined in Sec. 210.70(A), lighting outlets must be installed in: (1) Habitable rooms. At least one wall switch‑controlled ...
In a market of hundreds of millions of installations, a mandatory standardization of SKYX's ceiling outlet platform, should it occur, would enable a robust, safer plug and play ceiling installation of ...
All questions and answers are based on the 2017 NEC. Underlined text indicates a change in the rules for the 2017 NEC. Q. What are the Code rules for the installation of countertop and work surface ...