DaveBowden
Senior Member
- Location
- St Petersburg FL
A customer's house is wired in aluminum romex and she is understandably concerned about it. She asked for my recommendations. I told her we could re-wire her house (very expensive), we could change her devices to alum rated ones, or we could use AL/CU rated wirenuts to pigtail copper to her AL.
Since there are no GFI receptacles rated AL/CU, some pigtailing would still be needed. She also has a lot of dimmers with copper leads on them that need to be connected to the AL romex.
I also explained to her that if we used the AL devices she would need to have us back periodically to retighten the connections.
She opted for the pigtails.
I've used the Ideal AL to Cu rated wire nuts before and have had no problems with them other than their cost being almost $2.50 each. SInce every device will require at least 3 wirenuts, I'm going to have nearly $500 in wirenuts.
Do any of you have another method you prefer or any suggestions for connectors that are better than the wirenuts?
We're getting $25 a device so the cost isn't really a big issue.
Since there are no GFI receptacles rated AL/CU, some pigtailing would still be needed. She also has a lot of dimmers with copper leads on them that need to be connected to the AL romex.
I also explained to her that if we used the AL devices she would need to have us back periodically to retighten the connections.
She opted for the pigtails.
I've used the Ideal AL to Cu rated wire nuts before and have had no problems with them other than their cost being almost $2.50 each. SInce every device will require at least 3 wirenuts, I'm going to have nearly $500 in wirenuts.
Do any of you have another method you prefer or any suggestions for connectors that are better than the wirenuts?
We're getting $25 a device so the cost isn't really a big issue.