JohnDS
Senior Member
- Location
- Suffolk, Long Island
- Occupation
- Electrician
Ok hey guys. Im buying a new home. It is a supposed new renovation. It has a brand new service. The home inspector pointed out that none of the receptacle are showing being grounding according to tester. Inside the panel all the home runs have grounding conductors except for one wire which is an old wire. The kitchen and bathrooms are showing grounding according to tester but the rest of the house does not. We did not open any outlets but on the farthest side of the house from panel there is an unfinished garage with a receptacle box with no coverplate. The receptacle do in fact have a grounding conductor connected to them but the tester shows then not being grounding still. The wires obviously are not that old that are exposed in the garage because of the grounding conductor being present. At this point i am not moving into contract until the problem is fixed and i hear how it was fixed.
My concern is how they will fix this being that there is only romex in the house, so tgey will not be able to pull a ground from the box. I dont know how thwy intend to fix this. I know that you can tap off the neutral with a pigtail and go to the grounding terminal on each receptacle in the house to trick the tester to say it has a ground. Im worried that they might do this because i believe doing it this way is making a dangerous situation worse. I understand that if they say it is fixed, i can easily pull off each cover plate to see, but is there another way to tell if they juat rigged it this way to make it look like it is grounding.
These are 3 prong receptacles by the way. What do you guys think about this? These sellers look pretty shady so i wouldnt put it past them to have their electrician pull something stupid like this. Plus tge fact that the seller happens to be a building inspector lol. Any help, thanks.
My concern is how they will fix this being that there is only romex in the house, so tgey will not be able to pull a ground from the box. I dont know how thwy intend to fix this. I know that you can tap off the neutral with a pigtail and go to the grounding terminal on each receptacle in the house to trick the tester to say it has a ground. Im worried that they might do this because i believe doing it this way is making a dangerous situation worse. I understand that if they say it is fixed, i can easily pull off each cover plate to see, but is there another way to tell if they juat rigged it this way to make it look like it is grounding.
These are 3 prong receptacles by the way. What do you guys think about this? These sellers look pretty shady so i wouldnt put it past them to have their electrician pull something stupid like this. Plus tge fact that the seller happens to be a building inspector lol. Any help, thanks.
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