Electrician Question on grounding outlets

[clublights]

Just drive a ground rod.... they are not that expensive and it is not hard to do ...


heck I do it 3-4 times a weekend .

[Lurch]

Just drive a ground rod.... they are not that expensive and it is not hard to do ...


heck I do it 3-4 times a weekend .

From his pictures it appears that there is a ground wire running to a rod. My guess is you use just messed up the wiring on the open grounded outlet. If the outlet on each side is OK then it's just a simply wiring mistake.

[james_bond_007]

It seems like you want to know where the other end of the ground wire is going for the wires that are chopped off in the boxes, find them, and ground them.
You can trace the ground wire, and see if it is connected or find to where it goes.

If you want to trace the wiring, here is a reasonably priced ($35) tool from Home depot that does a nice job of tracing.

I have used these a number of times for all types of cabling.

The nice thing is that they can help you locate the route in the wall/ceiling the wiring is traveling, or help determine where a "break" is located.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Gardner-B...9#.UkM0VhCE7wo



Other methods are available to test and trace as well.

Best of luck.

[SideShow Bob]

What is the age of the house. If it's old enough it shouldn't be expected that the outlets are grounded.

Depending on when the remodel work was done, it should have been done to that year's code.
As far back as I can recall, outlets were to be grounded.

[Marlin]

Depending on when the remodel work was done, it should have been done to that year's code.
As far back as I can recall, outlets were to be grounded.

'72-'73 sticks out for some reason. My sisters house was built in that timeframe, it has grounded outlets. Most every pre '70 house I've been in has had two prong.