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Home Owner Maintenance Tip Interior Electrical Outlets Electrical outlets can be very dangerous, result in fire or electrical shock. You’ll need a three-prong electrical outlet tester. These
look like a three-prong plug with three little lights. Go room by room through the entire house, checking as many electrical outlets as possible. Ideally, you should check every outlet. Before touching any outlet, look to make sure that it is not physically damaged. Replace any outlet that is cracked or broken. With the rest of the outlets, take your electrical tester and plug it in. The most common fault is a condition called reversed polarity. Reversed polarity means that the black wire and the white wire are reversed where they are connected to the outlet. Appliances plugged into an outlet with reversed polarity will still work, but there is a much greater risk of electrocution. Please feel free to forward this maintenance tip to your friends and/or family members so they too can maintain their real estate investment.
Lem McSpadden and Brian McSpadden
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