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Electrician Cliff Popejoy explains the systems and components that bring power from it's source into and around your home.

If you’re new to running electrical circuits and are working on your own, it’s a good idea to test electrical work at rough-in. You can test from box to box,…

Whether you’re an electrical contractor, a builder, or a homeowner, there are a variety of ways to provide safe, code-compliant temporary power for your project.

Drywall guys often skim mud over the edges of electrical boxes and inadvertently fill the fixture screw holes. Before they can fill them, though, I fill them first. I use…

Learn how to cut, strip, and connect the ground, neutral, and hot wires for a basic light circuit.

After running and labeling all of the wires for your lighting circuits, it's time to organize them in the switch boxes.

Once non-metallic sheathed cables are pulled into a box and stripped, it's time to organize the hot, neutral, and ground wires.

After wires are organized in a switch box, it's time to bundle and label them so you know what's what when you come back to install the switches.

I was hanging drywall in a den next to my kitchen recently and was using a rotary cutting tool with a guide-point bit to make cutouts around electrical boxes, doors,…

Two testers and some basic know-how are all you need to be certain you are working safely.