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The GFCI advice given here is good. One thing that I want to throw
out is a short cut that my bosses hubby did...and it's illegal, wrong,
and and incrediblye dangerous...
Presented with the same thing as you, he purchased 3 prong recp.
Instead of using a GFCI, or adding a ground, by poking around in the
service disconnect, he saw that the ground and neutral were both
attached to the disconnect box. He's a bright chap, and deducts that
if ran a jumper to the grounding screw to the neutral screw on the
recp. he'd be good to go, didn't need that extra bare wire anyway. No
kidding.
The sad thing is as you can imagine is that the little plug in tester
said "Grounded". For the sake of everyone, your family and future
owners do not go this route. The sad thing is that when the house was
sold, the inspector plugged in the little tester thingy, and it said
grounded and no one bothered to take a cover plate off.
Bottom line...if your not 100% certain, do yourself a favor and at
least hire an electrician for an hour or two to provide a
consultation, no amount of savings is worth a life.
DAC
On Jan 26, 1:01 pm, r...@richw.org (Rich Wales) wrote:
> My mother's house was built in the early 1950's. Most of the
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Re: Grounding the receptacle boxes in an old house
