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Default Two Prong Wiring In A Three Prong World

HeyBub wrote:
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?


The "safest" way is to not use them at all.

The most practical way is to buy a mess of 3-to-2 adaptors. The consumer
world existed for 80 years without ground plugs and modern electrical
equipment is scads better today.


Good plan, why bother with nuisance tripping of circuit breakers or
GFCIs if the frame of a metal appliance should become energized. With
the adapters if there is an internal fault that can never happen.