The unstable economy is causing people to take some drastic actions. And some incredibly dangerous ones as well. None more so than snipping the copper grounding wires off utility poles. The grounding ...

Most homeowners think of grounding as a technical detail that only matters to electricians, yet it quietly decides whether a ...

Question: I am rewiring for a dryer plug from the circuit box. My old dryer wire had only three wires, a red, black and white. My new wire also has a ground. Is the ground needed or does the white ...

You don't need to be an electrician to understand the basics about how your home is wired. A general understanding of how cables and wires work is part of being a responsible homeowner, and our ...

The light switch in our bathroom bit the dust. In the process of swapping it out I discovered that the old switch was not grounded. There is a bundle of ground wires in the back of the plastic switch ...