People often use these electrical terms interchangeably, but there’s a difference: A cable assembles two or more wires in a single jacket. Wires are the individual insulated or bare conductors inside ...

Agree with the above points, namely conduit. But for the love of all that is good and decent in the world, MAKE A MAP OF CIRCUITS!! I would have given my eye teeth when I first moved into my ...

Hey, I'm planning on wiring up my house with Ethernet in the near future, and I was able to get some Cat5E remnants from my employer. I'm thinking this should be good enough to wire up the house with, ...

Yes, everything is wireless these days. But if your walls are open for another project, running some ethernet wire is still a good idea. Tearing open your walls to run ethernet isn’t exactly necessary ...

During a recent blitz to knock out a long list of to-do items, I came to an outlet in Daughter #2’s new-to-her old house that sent shivers up my spine and triggered nightmares of two similarly scary ...