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do you repair ungrounded electric outlets?
I invest in the mid-west (Indiana) but dont live in the region. Nearly every home I purchase or look at (SFHs in C class areas) have ungrounded outlets. So far we been paying to run a ground wire on the units but now I'm thinking is this really necessary? Im not trying to do a total rehab on my properties just make them C-class rental ready. Apparently whoever has been living in these properties over the years have been dealing with it just fine.
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Many of these two prong outlets also have old wire (cloth insulation, etc). It's not required by code to have three prong outlets but what I do find often is where people have installed a 3 prong outlet with no ground wire. This is definitely a code violation. A two conductor wire can be attached to a 3 prong GFCI and that does meet code but it's still ungrounded, just safer. The outlets protected by a GFCI should be labeled with a "no equipment ground" label. (all those assorted labels come with the GFCI device)
I usually replace the actual wire if it's readily accessible to create grounded circuits.