On Oct 6, 3:31 pm, "abby" wrote:
Hi,

My daughter rented an apartment in an older two
family house.
The receptacles are all two prong except two.
What is the safest
way to use three prong appliances with this
wiring?

The bathroom, believe it or not, does not have a
outlet!
How difficult (egg, expensive) would it be to add
a GFI outlet?

Thanks,
Gary

You have 2 options
1) Replace the circuit breaker with a GFCI circuit breaker. That will
take care of the entire circuit. Consult lanlord first.

2) If you know which is the first outlet that gets fed from the
breaker box, change that to a GFCI and it will protect all other
outlets downstream of it. It does not make sense to change every
outlet to a GFCI . You only need to change 1 and it will protect the
others. Keep in mind if there is a ground fault somewhere, it will
kill power to most locations and you have to reset it at the GFCI
outlet.

As for no outlet in the bathroom, take off the light switch cover and
remove switch and see how many wires are in it. If there are more than
2, than most likely you have constant power in that box. In that case
you( or the landlord) can install a duplex switch/outlet combo. And it
would have to be GFCI, depending on whether or not it is protected
upstream by a GFCI .