Hello. First off, thank you for reading this. I appreciate it.
My situation is that I'm renting a house in which has upgraded outlets in the kitchen and bathrooms. However, none of the wiring has been updated from 2-wire romex and so the outlets have been bootleg grounded. i.e. white wire connected from ground to neutral. Here is what I have done/plan to do in the short-term:
- Remove the jumper wire so that the outlets do not have the potential to feed current to the ground in case of a fault
- Replace the non-GFCI protected outlets with 2 pronged outlets
The fridge has supposedly always been on a GFCI circuit. Although there are a lot of possibilities here, the main question I am trying to nail down is:*** when I remove the jumper from the ground screw to neutral on the fridge outlet, will it change the way it's been working on the GFCI circuit causing issues? ***
I know there is a lot more to these questions and a lot of debate in some cases. As far as I understand, 2014 NEC guidelines call for GFCI on kitchen fridges now. Also, I understand that the fridge would also need a dedicated 20 amp circuit.
For the interim, GFCI protected outlets, even for the fridge, should be safer than the bootleg ground. The other outlets can be switched to 2 prong. Any thoughts are much appreciated in advance.
Rob
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