The wiring in your home is the highway of power, feeding everything electrical in the household. Over time, parts of it can damage or deteriorate and may present a serious fire or shock hazard ...

Period. Use nothing but 60-40 rosin-core solder intended for electrical wiring. You'll also need some PVC shrink tube. If you're not an old hand at soldering, practice for a dozen or so joints ...

Houses built before World War I often have plaster walls and original “knob-and-tube” wiring, which was installed according to old, outdated electrical code that did not require electrical ...

What's missing is a strategy for beefing up and modernizing the Western electrical grid to make those connections, according to industry officials. "We can't even connect the dots on a piece of paper.