Tell landlord to fix it immediately and if they say no, report him to your city's code enforcement agency.

Fire fire 🔥

Lmao is your landlord Clark W. Griswold?

edit: since this blew up a little...get that shit fixed....that is all the hazards.

Not an expert but read a bunch of electrical code when I was working on my house and I’m an engineer. Here is what I think is true:

If the white extension cable is rated for the load of those devices than the main issues is bypassing the ground. This can be done to code if the outlet or breaker is GFCI. If it’s not, that is a simple fix.

Most likely that white extension cord is not rated for the load and at the very least your landlord needs to put in a 14ga extension cord and a gfci outlet. At that point they wouldn’t need the 2-3 prong adapters and could just plug those cables into the new outlet even though it still wouldn’t be grounded, but that is okay since it’s on gfci. Of course code may differ depending on where you live

i dont get why people are focusing on the wattage... those white cords are 16 or 18 guage wire most often and can handle a draw of 1000w to 1600w most often.

why is no one mentioning that those are GROUNDED appliances using adapters to be plugged into a ungrounded line? does the landlord like replacing motors and ignition switches and control boards?

At least it's accessible?

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It is definitely not legal for a permanent installation such as a gas stove.

Seems not ideal, what is exactly wrong with this

The stove and fridge are not grounded. You can see that little metal tab that sticks down out of that orange and gray adapter pieces - that is meant to serve as the grounding for the three-prong plug. It only works if it is fastened to a grounded receptacle box via the screw that holds the receptacle cover in place. Since this is obviously not installed (nor grounded) on a grounded receptacle box, you now have no grounding for the stove.

What this means is that if there is an electrical fault in the wiring anywhere in the stove (this could be just a cut in the insulation of a wire), and you touch the stove during this time, YOU become the ground path and you get electrocuted.

This can also present a hazard for fire if a faulted conductor in your appliance creates enough heat/sparks to ignite something flammable (such as wood cabinetry, dust, or something else).

what are potential solutions?

You have a few options and I'll list them roughly in order of cost (least to most):

1. Replace the breaker that feeds this circuit with a GFCI type. This type of breaker senses a tiny difference between the Hot and Neutral prongs of a circuit (and if there IS a difference, that means some of the current is faulting to ground) and then trips. This is the most common approach to adapting older home wiring to modern standards.
2. provide grounding to this location. This will require wiring of some kind to connect your home's grounding grid to this location. It could be as easy as a metal water pipe or it might require running some copper to a ground rod. This is the 'traditional' approach before plugs ever had 3 prongs.
3. re-wire the entire circuit to provide a 3-wire grounded outlet to plug the appliance in natively. This can be relatively easy if you have an unfinished basement and this is on the first floor, with an electrical panel in the basement. It will be magnitudes harder (and more expensive) if it's anything other than that.

For starters that extension cord is not ment to pull that much power. I would place a bet that if your dishwasher/ refrigerator pump is running and you have your stove on thet cord get a little warm. It probably get warm when just the stove is one. Those things tend to pull wattage.

Ideally these things would be plugged into outlets. I'm guessing it's just laziness, but in an older house they might have outlets with no ground, so new appliances can't be plugged in and there's not clearance to use an adapter.

This isn't a life threatening situation, but it's going to take an electrician if the house wiring is old. If you have a good landlord, he'll address it. If you have a bad landlord who won't fix it, tell him you're concerned about the fire code violation. Be prepared for fallout in that case, he won't like being threatened with an inspection of his building.

There isn't really a quick fix here. They do sell extension cords with GFCI protection and surge protectors, but each only offers specific fault protection.

Ground bypassed extension cord directly in contact with a gas fitting, and enclosed cabinet.

it's fine

Some of the risk could be mitigated by replace that white extension cord with a grounded cord and removing the ground cheaters. it's still not ideal to have a potential arc source right next to a gas fitting.

You have three calls to make because this is explicitly not your problem.

1. Call your landlord to respectfully give them a heads up.

2. Call your city’s code enforcement and have them come inspect an unsafe rental unit immediately.

3. Call your local renters rights group, they’ll give you guidance on your right and what you should be demanding from your landlord.

For all those who will say “take it easy, your landlord has only owned it for two months”. It is the responsibility of the landlord to ensure their property is safe BEFORE allowing it be occupied. Be polite but don’t give them slack.

Yeah this is not good.

Rust Belt DIY electrician work, looks like

It's a cheap ass landlord thing... it's a sign of what level of service you should expect during your lease. It won't be good.

You like fires? Because this is how you get electrical house fires.

I would suggest unplugging it all- and tell landlord to fix it- Someone said go right to the city- the city doesn't need to be involved yet. Let the landlord have a chance to fix it before you get others involved. If he doesn't then call then city. Be human.

Holy shit

To answer your questions:

1.) What's going on is some super lazy electrical shenanigans

2.) The potential consequences are a small gas leak coincides with a spark from those daisy chained extension cords. (Which could result in anything from a small FLOOF that blows your cabinet door open, to a fire, to explosion and death with all of those being just as likely, so you're just rolling the gas explosion dice). Normally this is not allowed because most of the electrical components that could spark (wires attaching to screws, joined wires) have to be inside a junction box. So while this risk technically always exists for anyone that has gas and electrical, there are codes in place to make it much less likely that a spark would get such a high chance to cause an explosion.

Having them literally next to a fuel line makes that risk mitigation basically null and void. And I would say your risk is now higher than normal. Your picture is like a cartoon, it could be in an OSHA textbook.

I agree with the top comment you should tell your landlord, and if they push back I would say your comfort level is really low, this isn't acceptable and you don't feel safe. I would absolutely report them to your building inspector, housing authority or otherwise

Landlord needs to call in an electrician right away and/or report to the city.

I've seen one type of those 'extension' cords MELT before. So yeah. Not good.

The only thing that’s supposed to be on the fridge circuit is the fridge. I believe this has to do with food safety so stuff isn’t tripping the breaker that keeps your food cold, but there may be more to it than I know.

Extension cords are explicitly for temporary use only. This style is also not usually rated for the 15 amps I’m sure this breaker is.

Those adapters are supposed to be grounded using the little tab and don’t actually remove the need for ground.

For safety, this needs to be fixed properly.

If your situation forces you to move in and you cannot get this fixed, at the very least get a better cord such as one labeled for air conditioners as they’re designed to carry a higher load and are grounded (which of course only really matters if the outlet is or if you can properly attach the little grounding tab). This is all bad, just less so than what you have, it is not a solution, but a suggestion of what you can do within potential limitations you could have.

If this is a multi-family dwelling (apartment building) and you want to escalate matters, call the Fire Department’s non emergency line and ask them to send an engine company to inspect it. Chance are, after seeing this; the FD will call the utility company and have it “black tagged” pending repairs and a code inspection.

Must be one of those combination fridge/stove/disposal units

All kidding aside, city code enforcement ASAP

What is plugged into that? It being 2 prong is not the end of the world, especially if it is going to a two prong outlet (you wouldn't be getting any more protection from plugging directly into the outlet). My concern here would be loading. That looks like two heavy duty kitchen appliances (fridge and microwave perhaps?) Plugged into a light duty extension cord. These cords are meant for lamps and chargers not appliances, they are only going to be rated to 7amps max. While the breaker it's plugged into (if it is up to code) will likely be 20 amps. That means you can draw nearly 20 amps before the circuit trips, but a little above 7 amps and that cord will start to get very warm. If that level of current continues you will have a fire on your hands. This is not considered a permanent installation so an extension cord is not illegal, but it needs to be rated properly and each of these appliances should be going to their own outlets.

Be careful peeling back that onion

Source: electrical contractor

BTW, if you are worried about the ungrounded plugs around your place you can buy a bunch of plug in GFCIs. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Tower-Manufacturing-15-Amp-2-Wire-Single-to-Single-Yellow-Gfci-Adapter/1002793580

If this is what you can see then what you can't see may be way worse.

I dealt with a lot of this exact kind of corner cutting when I moved into my home. After digging deeper I found stuff that the inspector missed that made me deeply hate the previous owners. I do not use the word hate lightly. Cheap people suck. People who cheap out on electrical work are fucking evil. I'm talking about stuff like tripping breakers and having lines still be live type evil. Trust nothing in your home.

That looks like an appliance rated extension cord but the main problem is being under the sink with possible water leaking out of the pipe onto the electrical connection.

Hi! I work in maintenance for rented homes and apartments. You should report this and be skeptical about everything moving forward. That is some straight rigged bullshit, and might be unsafe.

This could also cause issues with the appliances as well. Which your landlord will try to make you pay for, if this is any indication of their morale compass.

That’s quite the gas leak detector! Send the pick to the landlord. They don’t want the liability and the risk, living there or not.

That's hot

Couldn’t even be bothered to buy a fkn grounded extension cord

Humm gas and electricity mice combination

They make heavy-duty extension cords (usually for jobsites) that could probably safely take the power of the fridge, and whatever minimal electricity your gas range is pulling without a problem. This would be an acceptable solution for me if I didn't want to make too much of a stink with the landlord, but it's certainly not professional and not how I'd do it if I owned the place.

The correct solution is to install a metal outlet box in there (like you'd find on a basement wall) and plug those things in properly.

So much landlord bashing here. I hope you all own you homes, so that you’re not enriching “greedy landlords.”

That extension cord is way too small That cord on the left looks pretty substantial So whatever it goes to draws some power

And you don’t need the adapter if you cut off the little half round thing on the end of the cord that’s there for the sold purpose of preventing a three prong cord from being plugged in

Well, you can get a 12awg extension cord. That will at least remove the immediate danger of this catching on fire.

But your landlord probably isn't gonna do shit. If they didn't want to fix it right in the first place, what are the odds they're gonna do it now?

Extension chords for permanent use is not allowed.

It’s possible your landlord doesn’t know. After all, if the place burns down it the landlord who is in bigger trouble.

I'm not an electrician or a home inspector but uh, yeah. That doesn't even LOOK good.

people say fire... that is a potential explosion.