Q: Our home was built in 1946 and has a serious electrical problem. The previous owner replaced the old fuse box with a breaker panel and replaced the old 2-prong wall outlets with 3-prong outlets.

Q: We recently purchased a 50-year-old home, and no one mentioned the 2-prong, ungrounded outlets. They weren't disclosed by the sellers, and our home inspector didn't list them in his report. Shouldn ...

Any cheap electrical tester will identify an ungrounded three-prong outlet, unless someone really went out of their way to fool the three-prong tester, which would be highly unethical and dangerous. I ...