I have several rental houses that were built close to 100 years ago. A couple are still knob and tube wiring. The city inspector came in and gave me a list of issues I need to address.
1) change all ungrounded 3 prong outlets to 2 prong outlets.
2) Jump the water meter
3)GCFI outlets do not work properly
My questions are:
1) is jumping the water meter as simple as attaching a clamp on either side of it with a 2 foot thick gaged wire? Then do I have connect the nuetral bus bar to a water pipe?
2)the GCFI outlets...will they not work properly for the simple fact that the system was made ungrounded? I mean there are two wires. I contected the black to the hot side and the white to the nuetrul side. How can they not function properly?
1) change all ungrounded 3 prong outlets to 2 prong outlets.
2) Jump the water meter
3)GCFI outlets do not work properly
My questions are:
1) is jumping the water meter as simple as attaching a clamp on either side of it with a 2 foot thick gaged wire? Then do I have connect the nuetral bus bar to a water pipe?
2)the GCFI outlets...will they not work properly for the simple fact that the system was made ungrounded? I mean there are two wires. I contected the black to the hot side and the white to the nuetrul side. How can they not function properly?