Buyers and renters are suddenly treating electrical grounding as a make‑or‑break detail, and inspectors are following their lead. What used to be a line item buried in a long report is now a focal ...

Have you done any service work lately, and noticed a spark as you connect or reconnect the grounding electrode conductor to the ground rod of what appeared to be a perfectly normal electric service?

Q. When a building has more than one service (as allowed by Sec. 230.2), is there a requirement to ground these multiple services to a common grounding electrode? (Answer based on 2011 NEC.) A. Where ...