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Complete Guide On Replacing/ Upgrading old 2 Prong Outlets [Short Wires, No Ground and more!] 

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So if you have an older house you may have run into the problem where the whole house has 2 prong outlets! In this video, I go through replacing the receptacle with a modern 3 prong outlet and some grounding issues you may run into. I show how to ground/ bond the metal electrical box, what to do if the wires are to short and what to do if there is no existing ground at all! I cover all these and more!
00:00 Intro
00:35 Disclaimer
00:45 How to determine if your box is grounded
2:12 What if my wires are to short?
2:25 Removing the old outlet
2:50 2 Ways to Extend wires
5:17 What to do if you do have a ground? w/ Metal box?
7:10 Installing the new outlet
7:58 What if I have no ground at all?
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@themeat5053
@themeat5053 Год назад
Nice job, again. You are a professional! Great tips and demonstrations.
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel Год назад
Thank you!... 😀
@surferdude642
@surferdude642 Год назад
Good information. If you use the Load connection to protect downstream outlets, you can change them to 3-prong. You then should put 2 stickers on the faceplates, "No Equipment Ground" and GFCI protected outlet ". For extending wires, I'd rather use the Wago brand lever nuts either in the splicing form or 2-postion. They are a known commodity and generally have a good reputation.
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel Год назад
Excellent info! Thanks ... 😀
@metch8500
@metch8500 Год назад
very good video though
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel Год назад
Thanks!
@metch8500
@metch8500 Год назад
Make your pre twists tighter, and pro tip line up insulation on wires!
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel Год назад
Awesome! Thanks for the valuable tips.. 😀
@metch8500
@metch8500 Год назад
so everything you did was fine and will work good, you do not need a wire on each of the screws for the whole plug to work, what you could (or should for me) have done would pre twist (tightly) with one pig tail for your white wires and your black wires, good pre twist with wire cap will keep power flowing through the circuit even if that plug fails (possible lose screw etc.)
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel Год назад
You're exactly right. That's what I normally would have done. I knew I was going to hook up a GFI outlet later in the video and I wanted to show line and load. I know this has nothing to do with the 2 prong, so I should have showed them separately. Thanks for the info!
@DiscreetHustle
@DiscreetHustle 2 месяца назад
Do you have a link for those connectors
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel 2 месяца назад
I don't remember which ones I used now. Did I put a link in the description?
@jloza9840
@jloza9840 2 месяца назад
So if you’re not sure what outlet is the main one feeding the “room” is it okay to replace every outlet with gfci? Thank you.
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel 2 месяца назад
HI... No I wouldn't do that. The GFI's will tend to fight each other and they will wind up tripping when they shouldn't trip. I would turn off the breaker and see all the plugs that were affected. Then you can disconnect one set of wires from one of the plugs and see which ones work and which ones don't. You'll have to turn power back on to test this. IF you're not comfortable working around live electric then certainly don't try this. But you have to eliminate one by one which one is what until you find the first one in the circuit. The first plug in the circuit will have power on one set of wires and the rest of the plugs in the circuit will all be off. I would try an educated guess by trying the plug closest to the panel box and trying that one first.
@jloza9840
@jloza9840 2 месяца назад
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel thank you for responding, so this process would be on each room, bathroom, kitchen etc right? Thanks
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel 2 месяца назад
@@jloza9840 HI again. Yes on any individual circuit that you want to put a GFI plug you should only use 1 GFI plug at the beginning of the run and the rest of the plugs in that circuit can all be regular plugs. If you're trying to bring an older house up to code depending on what sort of panel box you have the breakers should also be combo arc fault/GFI as well. For example if you have an older Federal Pacific box then there's no such breaker type, but if it's a square D, then yes the breakers should be changed. I think these breakers are required everywhere except maybe bathrooms, garage plugs and outdoor plugs as well...
@jloza9840
@jloza9840 2 месяца назад
@@TheHomeImprovementChannel thank you
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel 2 месяца назад
@@jloza9840 Welcome!
@TheMissingxtension
@TheMissingxtension 11 дней назад
so the GFCI is not a fix
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel 10 дней назад
Great! Thanks...
@DiscreetHustle
@DiscreetHustle 2 месяца назад
Sup Rudy
@TheHomeImprovementChannel
@TheHomeImprovementChannel 2 месяца назад
Not much!
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