Eug
Senior Member
I've only ever lived in relatively new builds, or renovated older properties in Toronto. Every single one of my rentals or owned homes have had 3-prong grounded outlets, and GFI outlets in the bathroom. I've lived in Toronto since the early 90s.
How common is it not to have that?
The reason I ask is because I moved into an area into a 15 year old home that was a tear-down and rebuild of an old bungalow. After I got to know my neighbours, I found out that several of them in the original bungalows (50s) still mostly just have 2-prong outlets, although some of them have a very limited number of 3-prong outlets in very specific areas of the house.
How common is this? How hard is it to retrofit electrical wiring to fully grounded wiring without doing major renovations? All I know is that my friend with knob-and-tube wiring basically had to rip most of her walls apart to update her wiring. However, that's knob-and-tube, in a much older house.
How common is it not to have that?
The reason I ask is because I moved into an area into a 15 year old home that was a tear-down and rebuild of an old bungalow. After I got to know my neighbours, I found out that several of them in the original bungalows (50s) still mostly just have 2-prong outlets, although some of them have a very limited number of 3-prong outlets in very specific areas of the house.
How common is this? How hard is it to retrofit electrical wiring to fully grounded wiring without doing major renovations? All I know is that my friend with knob-and-tube wiring basically had to rip most of her walls apart to update her wiring. However, that's knob-and-tube, in a much older house.