How do I ground an outlet?

[Heresy 10+ year member]

I have recently decided to ground a few of the outlets in the 70+ year old house I am staying in. The guy before me installed these nice, modern 3-prong outlets but never ran a ground wire to them. I can easily get under the house now, and the weather is easier to work in. Running the wires is no problem, but I am not sure how to exactly I terminate them. Does anyone have any links to how I would go about doing this? Is it as simple as running the ground wires back to the circuit breaker box, or is it more involved?

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[DaGh0st 5,000+ posts]

try house builder forums?

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Ground is simply a pole sticking out of the ground with the ground wires attached to it. No more than 3 feet from the outside meter, and only one pole. I'm not 100% on that so check a few homebuilders / electricians forums for advice.

Try not to shock yourself in the process, and good luck.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

fuk electricity.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

^ That's like an apostacy for a car audio forum. Electricity is so incredibly unfathomably important to daily life that I can't even begin to describe life without it.

And I get to use big words in this post. W00t.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

apostasy?

i like to use electricity, but i dont wanna work with it, unless its 12v and that doesnt count cuz it wont really shockez joo.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

get an electrician to fix it b/c if its a 70 y/o house your gonna run into problembs burning aluminum wire... thats right ALUMINUM wire... thats what was used abou70 years ago... and the fact that the breaker box isnt setup for anythin high amperage is another thing... probly gonna be an expensive project to undertake to do it correctly

 

[sqhertz 5,000+ posts]

~120 first hour and 100 every hour after that = electricians labor rate fyi (around here atleast)