Please help! I am a 27yr old new home owner of 2 years living in Alabama and my water pipes froze the other day, so after the whole hair dryer thaw out time, thinking I'd done enough research, I went and bought foam pipe insulation and installed it. When I was down there I was covering the part...

I recently purchased a home with an outdoor shed. I've started to remodel the shed and I noticed that the sub-panel was wired incorrectly. Neutral and ground were attached to the same bus, and there was no ground rod. I've purchased a new bus bar for ground and I am in the process of installing my...

Bare copper wire; Why do we use bare copper wire for grounding, why not all insulated?

I have a problem with some wiring that I ran for an outside motion light. Although the hot leg and ground wires are fine, the neutral wire is defective ( it may have gotten knicked or something). Of course, now the wiring is covered up behind a wall that I do not want to tear into if it can be...

Our house was built in 2003 and it came with a GE 24" microwave oven that uses 120 volts/20 Amp. The microwave stops working so we went out and bought a KitchenAid convection microwave oven that requires 20 Amp, 240 volts, 60 Hertz. The old microwave oven uses 12/2 w/g romex from a subpanel. ...