ElectricalAdvice

In this day and age, with Home Depot and Lowes store, as well as other Home Improvement centers, selling at practically wholesale prices, the items that were once virgin territory, or blind items, hidden behind the electrical manufacturing distributors and wholesalers selling to Electricians and Electrical Contractors. The purchasing public now has far greater reach into these wholesale markets than they once did, thanks to these big box, so-called "retailers". The Electrican who is working for himself these days is not only competing with his colleagues, but also with the property owners themselves, some of whom would be willing to try to do the wiring at their homes themselves.
If the amatuer, shade tree, or weekender electricians are doing this work themselves anyway, why not give them a resource, not only to purchase wholesale electrical parts, but a literature stream of installation information. A smorgasborg of ideas, tools, installation tricks, but most importantly, to weave the National Electrical Code Makers and the National Fire Protection Agency and the basic premises regarding the safe installation of electrical devices and products.
As I venture into this cybertech library, please keep in mind that this is anew site, and that we will be updating and adding information as fast as I can enter it into the system. If you have a question about something, anything electrical, please email me at David@ElectricalAdvice.net, I will endeavor to answer, online, as many as I can.
Speaking to the do it yourselfer, I must stress in the most serious of tones, doing your own wiring is a dangerous undertaking. However, if you are a "shade tree electrician", and you are confident of your abilities and knowledge to make electrical things work, please take heed as I show you that the importance of following certain code rulings that can and will save your life, those of your loved ones and even the life of a future homeowner.
I will demonstrate in words on these pages, with graphics and photographs, the method or methods most often employed by professional electricians in the field. Snaking wires into existing walls, hooking up various household appliances, installing the electric service to the building, etc.. Step by step I will instruct and inform.
I will discuss the various skills we, as electricians, must possess to do our jobs; you'd be surprised at what we have to know! The tools we use from manufacturers like Milwaukee, Porter Cable, Greenlee, Klien, Ideal, and others. I will suggest the use of different products, from the various electrical manufacturers. I will explain Underwriters Laboratory (UL) and how they affect our installation processess.
I intend to raise the standard under which electricians are viewed in the construction field. No longer viewed as the worker with his pants falling down, exposing certain portions of his (in most cases) personal anatomy. Electricians are not your average construction worker, they are the elite among construction industry mechanics and laborers. Electricians bring things to life, and their talents, knowledge and accomplishments constitute what has become a very intimate and integral part of our way of living.
Be safety conscious, after all, it's your family and their safety we are talking about here!