The Complete Guide to Home Wiring: A Comprehensive Manual, from Basic Repairs to Advanced Projects

by Black & Decker

Electricity and the components that supply it are essential elements of your home life. They provide for necessities from food preparation, illumination, safety, and climate control to entertainment, relaxation and work. Knowing about your electrical system and how it provides for your needs will give you the power to make sensible, effective, and economical decisions and provide you with security. From troubleshooting problems to understanding how best to meet your lighting needs when designing a remodeling project, the information you find here will help you make your home a more delightful environment - while you save money. This book contains step-by-step instructions, clearly illustrated with more than 650 color photographs, for any electrical work you will need to do around your house, from basic repairs to advanced wiring projects. Each detailed project gives you a list of tools and materials you'll need to do the job right. We've even included some of the most common electrical code violations and potential problems that may be found in household electrical systems, especially older ones. The Complete Guide to Home Wiring will be a vital resource for you for years to come. As your home environment needs change, and as wear and tear affects your house, you will always find information and solutions that will meet your needs and save you money.

Genres: Reference, Home Improvement, Nonfiction, How To, Construction

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Black & Decker Corporation is an American manufacturer of power tools, accessories, hardware, home improvement products and technology based fastening systems headquartered in Towson, Maryland.


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Reviews

[Clifford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very helpful to guide you through wiring projects. It It helps you step-by-step through various projects. Examples of basic projects include installing/replacing outlets, switches, and fixtures. More advanced projects are planning and wiring complete rooms and kitchens. In addition, there are also some sections on low-voltage circuits, home networking, and outdoor electrical projects.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was looking for some information prior to calling an electrici9an in for osme planned upgrades. I am not knowledgeable about electricity, but thisw book is actully a picture book of electricity, with 2-4 photographs per page giving close-ups pf every step of every name and process and size and material and a step-by-step pictorial of every repair and every method. I became so interested that I just jet readinbgm and before I knew it, I had read the whole thing.

[Dustin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is dangerous. I so want to gut my house and redo the wiring from scratch. Amazingly dense with information, but with exceptionally clear diagrams, pictures, and approaches to nearly any project in your home. Indispensable.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good relatively in depth residential wiring book. As with most if not all of such books, an attempt is made to cover too many areas so as to appeal to a wide audience.

[David J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not dead and the new line works. I think that is worth three stars.