Q: As a fellow home inspector, I think you go overboard with electrical issues, such as ungrounded two-prong outlets in old homes. Ungrounded outlets should not be reported as a defect unless found in ...

Most homeowners think of grounding as a technical detail that only matters to electricians, yet it quietly decides whether a fault ends in a harmless trip or a house fire. When grounding is ...

In my old post on fixing ungrounded outlets, I show how to use a two-lead tester to see if the electrical box is grounded. If the metal box is properly grounded, the most common way of grounding the ...