Q. Several electricians have told me that a live breaker panel or fuse panel should only be opened by a licensed electrician, not by a home inspector. I cannot find a reference to this in the National ...

You'd think by now that every home would have its electrical panel up to code. Wrong. Inspectors and electricians keep ...

Q. The people who are buying our house hired a home inspector. His report advised removing the padlock from our electrical panel. This seems like a pointless recommendation, since there are no ...

I started my career sweeping floors in the basement of a university building hoping to be seen as worthy to become an electrical apprentice. In those days, there were no mandatory apprenticeship ...

If you're like many electrical contractors, you probably think your inspector is an overly officious guy who loves to nit-pick your every completed installation. If that's what you think, you may be ...

Split-bus electrical panels are different from other electrical panels because they don't have a single circuit breaker to shut off all of the power. These panels usually have several circuit breakers ...