Ask the Virginia Beach Home Inspector

This electrical panel was found at a home inspection in Virginia Beach. We have a condition which is commonly referred to as a “double tap” which means that a breaker that is listed for one conductor has two conductors terminating under the screw. Here we have two wires one copper and one aluminum terminating under [...]

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One of the items that is a lot of Virginia Beach home inspection reports is the lack of GFCI’s or not in the appropriate area. A ground-fault circuit interrupter, or GFCI, is a device used in electrical wiring to disconnect a circuit when unbalanced current is detected between an energized conductor and a neutral return [...]

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