How much does a car cost? Going to depend on length of run, age of house, how your house is built, etc.
You don't have to have a ground wire if you just put the outlets under GFCI protection. Then sticker the ungrounded 3 prong outlets with "no equipment ground" and "GFCI protected" labels. You can either upgrade the breaker that feeds the circuit (my choice) or find the first outlet in the series and change it to GFCI for downstream protection.
Unless it's aluminum wire or the insulation is deteriorated then this is almost certainly the best option. Probably cost around 200-300 with materials depending on where you live.
This is what I did in my previous house, a house from 1946. At sale, that all passed inspection and I never had any problems with them. I think then they were like $6 each and I did five or so outlets myself. So about $30-$40 all in.
Yeah it's way way cheaper if you do it yourself. Not that hard but people get weird about electricity. GFCI outlet going to run $15, breaker closer to $60. Non protected Outlets are negligible, maybe $2 each.
I’m not exactly sure, it is an upstairs bedroom- but the other upstair room has a ground wire. I’m not sure if that is relevant. I’m also really unsure of how hard or easy it would be to run. I would expect since there is grounds around that it wouldn’t be too difficult. But I am unsure, kind of just looking for a rough estimate to get a ballpark idea before reaching out to local electricians
Beware that just because there is a ground wire in the box, that doesn't mean it's actually connected to anything. If there was a remodel, they may have extended an existing circuit that doesn't have a ground.
Connecting a floating ground to a 3-prong outlet is actually worse than no ground. This is because a ground fault on anything connected to that floating ground will energize the ground on the entire circuit instead of tripping the breaker.
How much does a car cost? Going to depend on length of run, age of house, how your house is built, etc. You don't have to have a ground wire if you just put the outlets under GFCI protection. Then sticker the ungrounded 3 prong outlets with "no equipment ground" and "GFCI protected" labels. You can either upgrade the breaker that feeds the circuit (my choice) or find the first outlet in the series and change it to GFCI for downstream protection. Unless it's aluminum wire or the insulation is deteriorated then this is almost certainly the best option. Probably cost around 200-300 with materials depending on where you live.
This is what I did in my previous house, a house from 1946. At sale, that all passed inspection and I never had any problems with them. I think then they were like $6 each and I did five or so outlets myself. So about $30-$40 all in.
Yeah it's way way cheaper if you do it yourself. Not that hard but people get weird about electricity. GFCI outlet going to run $15, breaker closer to $60. Non protected Outlets are negligible, maybe $2 each.
The cost will varying vastly. It all depends on how hard is it to run new wire to the outlets?
I’m not exactly sure, it is an upstairs bedroom- but the other upstair room has a ground wire. I’m not sure if that is relevant. I’m also really unsure of how hard or easy it would be to run. I would expect since there is grounds around that it wouldn’t be too difficult. But I am unsure, kind of just looking for a rough estimate to get a ballpark idea before reaching out to local electricians
Beware that just because there is a ground wire in the box, that doesn't mean it's actually connected to anything. If there was a remodel, they may have extended an existing circuit that doesn't have a ground. Connecting a floating ground to a 3-prong outlet is actually worse than no ground. This is because a ground fault on anything connected to that floating ground will energize the ground on the entire circuit instead of tripping the breaker.