Improve electrical safety in your home by grounding or replacing old two-prong ungrounded outlets. The post How to Ground an Ungrounded Outlet appeared first on Family Handyman.

Plugging in an electronic device that has three prongs into a two-prong outlet (like with an adapter) could present a serious ...

A lot of older homes still have old-school two-prong outlets. It's a good idea to upgrade them—and you can do it yourself.

The apartment I will be moving into on Wednesday has three-prong receptacles in all the rooms. My GFI receptacle tester ($5 from the hardware store) tells me that most of these receptacles have an ...

A standard 3-prong outlet is the most common and cheapest type of electrical receptacle you can buy. It rarely costs more than a dollar or two, though some colors cost extra.