Covering outdoor electrical boxes before winter helps prevent moisture, rust, and short circuits, extending the box’s ...

Whatever materials and equipment he had laying around in his garage in order to “just get the job done.” In doing so, he violated several Code rules and created some safety concerns. Section 300.3(A) ...

Q: I have a light set in my backyard that is plugged into an electrical outlet that has two silver flaps to cover the plugs. The system works fine except that I get very nervous when it rains. My fear ...

My smart home extends to both my front and back yards. But I have only one weather-protected duplex outlet in each location, which isn’t enough to accommodate all the smart devices I need to plug in.

I guess the person servicing this installation thought that wrapping the whole thing in electrical tape would simply make all the problems disappear. But then I showed up with my camera and exposed ...