How To Replace An Electrical Outlet With Only Two Wires

Homes built before 1965 were built with 30 or 60 amp fuse panels while 60 amp fuse panels were made with at least one 240 volt wire for larger appliances 30 amp fuse panels only provide 120 volt wiring and they are inadequate for modern household electrical needs.

How to replace an electrical outlet with only two wires. Many older homes have electrical outlets or receptacles with only two slots for a two prong plug. There s no third slot for the grounding prong found on most modern appliance plugs. Disconnect the hot wire which is black from the existing outlet and connect it to the brass line terminal on the gfci. To replace your two prong outlet with a gfci start by turning off the breaker controlling the outlet circuit and unscrewing the outlet from the electrical box.

When you are replacing electrical receptacles outlets in an existing two wire hot neutral no ground circuit that is in good physical condition the only recommended and code approved solution short of re wiring that i have found is to install new two slot no ground prong opening electrical receptacles in the box. If an outlet commonly called a receptacle no longer holds a plug snugly it should be replaced the procedure for replacing a duplex two outlet wall receptacle is similar to that of replacing a switch. Two prong outlets suggest other problems.