Engineering and Technology
The ability to repair basic house wiring in your home is a skill you can acquire. Electrical wiring in a residential house is not that complicated, but it can be dangerous. A proper understanding of how the wiring and electrical fixtures work is essential. This work will point you to the resources that will give you the knowledge that you need.
The Second Edition of Residential Wiring is a practical introduction to the general wiring principles, methods, installations, calculations, and service equipment used in utmost of residences. All the diagrams of this work are to illustrate most of what you might run into in a home -- or might need to reconstruct if you undid some connections.