On Sep 14, 1:31 am, Eric9822 wrote:
On Sep 13, 10:08 pm, Jim Ellis at aol dot com wrote:

Hi all,

I have a house that was built in 1955. The elctrical outlets are of
the two prong variety. I want to run a ground wire from the 100 amp
service to all the outlets in the kitchen and bathrooms and then add
GFCI outlets in these locations. I also want to run a ground wire to
the outlets in one bedroom that I will be using as an office and as
such it will have a fax, printer, and computer that all require
grounded outlets. My question is, how difficult is it to snake the
wires to the outlets? What if I just tape some three wire romex to the
old wire at the outlet and pull it through the existing hole?
Thoughts, opinions?

You can add GFCI's without having a ground as long as you mark the
receptacles "No Equipment Ground", they do not require a ground to
function.

Or you can replace the circuit breakers with GFCI breakers. That will
take care of the entire house including your 2 pronged outlets.
instead of changing the outlets. That's what I did in my house. The
code in my town allows this to be done.