

Now why would they do that?
Recently I inspected a home that had a problem like no other I had encountered before. The home was relatively new so I had hopes of a clean inspection with minimal problems. Things went well until I began checking electrical outlets. Every outlet I checked except for those in the kitchen tested as open ground wires. This is an indication that the ground wire is not connected to the ground terminal on the outlet. This is not an unusual defect to encounter in a home, but if it