{"id":811,"date":"2015-08-17T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/?p=811"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T20:34:55","slug":"aluminum-branch-circuit-wiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/aluminum-branch-circuit-wiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Branch Circuit Wiring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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aluminum branch wiring with soot<\/p><\/div>\n

While inspecting a nice early 1970’s homes electrical panel, we found this neutral bar with several aluminum branch circuit wired connected to it. \u00a0So called “old style” aluminum wire can be particularly dangerous and must be identified by the inspector, according to state law.
\nThe charring of this wire tells the story, this family is lucky they still have a house to sell.\u00a0 I have no doubt that if this is not repaired, this home will eventually have an electrical fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

We train you to pay particular attention to all electrical inspections because of their potential hidden dangers, and the\u00a0incredible volume of electrical problems we see.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more about \"aluminum-branch-wiring-overheating\"<\/a>old style aluminum branch circuit wiring<\/b> at Consumer Product Safety commission.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"douglas-hansen\"Aluminum Wiring By Douglas Hansen<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u201cMention aluminum wiring and you\u2019ll find a lot of folks who react as though you\u2019ve said the house has a voodoo curse\u201d. \u00a0Douglas Hansen\u00a0Douglas is the principal author of the Code Check series of field guides to building codes and inspections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While inspecting a nice early 1970’s homes electrical panel, we found this neutral bar with several aluminum branch circuit wired connected to it. \u00a0So called “old style” aluminum wire can be particularly dangerous and must be identified by the inspector, according to state law. The charring of this wire tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoolofprofessionalhomeinspection.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}