Re: Home wiring

Disclaimer: you need to check your local building codes to be
absolutely sure.

What I have seen (and done) time-and-time again is this: Connect the 2
ground wires together along with a 3rd short pigtail, all in a
wire-nut. Connect the pigtail to the ground lug on the outlet or
switch (or to the box).

I believe it is safer to connect the ground pigtail directly to the
outlet or switch ground-lug.

One other suggestion: if you can, don't connect all the outlets and
the overhead light to the same circuit breaker. The load on the
circuit breaker is not the issue -- the problem is, if that particular
breaker goes bad you lose everything in that room simultaneously. If
one or two outlets are on a different breaker, and a desk lamp or
nightlight is plugged into those outlet, then you would still have some
light/power in the room when the light breaker failed.

This has happened to me (breaker failure -- overhead light only). I
have observed the practice I described in several homes.

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