If your home was built before the 1960s, you might still have some old two-prong ungrounded outlets. The correct name for an ungrounded outlet is a non-grounding-type receptacle. So here, we'll use ...

In this episode of EC&M Code Conversations, Editor-in-Chief Ellen Parson and Code Consultant Russ LeBlanc discuss the confusion surrounding the replacement of non-grounding type receptacles. “Code ...

Replace it with another two-wire non-grounding receptacle Replace it with a GFCI receptacle marked "No Equipment Ground." No equipment grounding conductors are permitted to connect to receptacles ...