A warm outlet cover or a faint plastic smell in the hallway is easy to ignore. With aluminum wiring in house Birmingham AL properties built between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, those small clues can be the first signs of a failing connection. Aluminum branch wiring does not usually fail along the wire. It fails at the outlets, switches, and splices, often hidden inside a wall.

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