10/10/2026
Fun fact: if your DFW home was built before 1973, there's a real chance the wiring inside your walls is aluminum. Not copper. Aluminum.
Back in the late '60s and early '70s, aluminum wiring was standard in a lot of Rowlett, Garland, and Plano homes — copper was expensive and aluminum was cheap. It's not automatically a crisis, but it does behave differently than copper at the connections, and over time those connections can loosen. We run into this regularly in older East DFW neighborhoods. Worth knowing if you're buying, selling, or just curious about your house.
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