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Callmecrazy

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3. The Utility wouldn't put a meter on your service if you aren't grounded...

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 09:28 PM

Mar 2014

And yeah, FHA would never have approved a loan for an ungrounded electrical system. If you have metal boxes, than you have metal conduit in the walls or flexible metal conduit that becomes the grounding system, The green grounding wire is redundant. You wouldn't believe how many redundancies are present in any electrical grounding system. It's the largest section in the National Electrical Code. I'm sure your home is perfectly safe. If you take off the front cover, called the deadfront (for obvious reasons), I'm sure you'll find a big fat bare copper wire in there going to ground. It's probably going to an iron rod sunk into the building footer.

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The mystery deepens in our ungrounded house [View all] Holly_Hobby Mar 2014 OP

Yes, it's grounded. If it's in the basement, you should be able to see a wire going to something Warpy Mar 2014 #1

We're on a crawl space, Holly_Hobby Mar 2014 #2

The Utility wouldn't put a meter on your service if you aren't grounded... Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #3

Oh yeah. I forgot about the footer ground. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2014 #5

Yeah it's called something like ... Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #6

Yes! Ufer ground Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2014 #8

You never answered if your conduit was metallic cable or rigid metallic pipe Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2014 #4

Correct. Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #7

That what I couldn't figure out -the cable-pipe . it the only other way. Wash. state Desk Jet Mar 2014 #9

Cook county doesn't allow Romex. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2014 #10

Good info. thanks. Wash. state Desk Jet Mar 2014 #11

No conduit, wires are covered in cloth n/t Holly_Hobby Mar 2014 #13

Some Confusion exists westom Mar 2014 #12

Yea the cheater ,where they take an end of the run hook a piece of wire to the neutral terminal than Wash. state Desk Jet Mar 2014 #14