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Galenahokie

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Another old house question. Many of the outlets in my son and DIL's 95


year old house are non-grounded two prong outlets. Instead of replacing the entirety of the 2 conductor wire with 2 conductor w. ground, would it be possible to replace the outlet with 3 prong outlets and simply attach a ground wire to the ground terminal on the outlet, lead these to a common point and attach them to a copper spike driven into the ground?

Posted: 06/03/2020 at 12:16PM


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