{"id":548,"date":"2020-06-22T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:19:06","slug":"does-home-need-grounding-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/electrical\/does-home-need-grounding-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Does My Home Need Grounding Services?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What does it mean to have your house grounded<\/em>? We\ncould go into some lengthy engineering explanations about how electricity\nworks, but we can provide a simpler discussion of the electrical flow in your\nhouse. Electricity is always trying to \u201cground,\u201d which means it gets rid of all\nits negative energy so it can get back to being balanced. In your home, the way\nthe electrical systems allow electricity to return to ground is through the neutral\nwires. The \u201chot\u201d wires carry the negative half of the polarized charge of electricity,\nand the neutral wires contain the positive half. These wires run next to each\nother through your electrical system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For an example of this standard grounding at work, look at an\noutlet. One slot is the \u201chot\u201d side, and the other is the \u201cneutral.\u201d The current\nflows through the hot side and then into the neutral side to eliminate the\nnegative energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Grounding for a House Is an Alternate Path of Electricity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What happens if something goes wrong with your electrical\nwiring set up? For example, a short-circuit occurs because of frayed wiring and\nelectricity escapes from one wire to leap to another wire. In this case, the\nelectricity is taking a short-cut to reach the ground. This is where grounding\nthe home is useful, because it offers a safe alternate route for the electricity\nto reach the ground without creating electrical hazards like high voltage\nshocks and fires. You give electricity an easier route that\u2019s also a safer\nroute, and the electricity will take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your home may already be grounded. The way to check is to\nlook at one of the outlets. The third slot, the one below the hot and neutral\nslots, is the grounding slot. The wiring for this slot connects to the copper grounding\nwires, so in case of an electrical short, the electricity has a safe pathway to\nreach the ground and eliminate its negative energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If You Don\u2019t Have Grounded Outlets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wiring systems for older homes, such as those built before 1965, may not have any grounding path at all. If you live in a home where all the outlets are still two-pronged, your house may not have any grounding. (As we\u2019ve discussed in a previous post, using three-prong adapters is <\/a>not<\/a><\/em> a solution to this<\/a>; you still won\u2019t have grounded outlets.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homes built before 1965 may be grounded, but instead of the copper wires used today, they use less effective metal conduits or metal cables. If your home is this vintage, we recommend you call on an Orchard Park, NY electrician<\/a> to see if you need upgrades and grounding for the house. We strongly recommend making the upgrade to grounded three-prong outlets if your house does not currently have them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another job we recommend for these older houses with either\nno grounding or outdated grounding is to have a replacement electrical panel\nput in. This is especially important if the house uses a fuse box rather than a\nbreaker panel. You can trust our electricians to provide you with the best\nsolutions for modernizing your electrical system for safety and effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scherer Electric is Western New York\u2019s Favorite Electrician. Call us today for the electrical services your home needs.<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We strongly recommend making the upgrade to grounded three-prong outlets if your house does not currently have them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[94,111,108,99],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schererelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}