outlets

I live in an older row home built in the mid 1940's. As I worked my way through the house over the years I've replaced almost everything. I am now selling the house. As a incentive to a potential buyer I had a house inspection done. On the inspection report there was a remark about ungrounded outlets and their location. I had replaced those vintage outlets with what was available at the time. The three pronged grounded outlets. The outlets in question are wired to the origional house wiring. I don't know of any way to ground these without replacing the wire with new. Any suggestions?

 

I think that if you replace the three outlets with GFCI outlets, ~$7.00 each, everyone can be happy, and the wiring will be safe. Installing three pronged outlets on two wire is misleading, because the outlet is not grounded.

 

The other legal way of handling the situation, is replace only the first outlet in the circuit with a GFCI outlet, and if wired correctly, it will protect the downstream outlets. Then you go around with sticky labels indicating that the 3 prong outlets are ungrounded.
The second option, is to purchase the polarized two pronged outlets and replace the three prong. They are still available.