Outdoor Outlets
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Originally Posted by moeronn
That is pretty rigged. The outdoor outlets should be on a separate circuit from anything inside.
Now all you need to do is keep your son from pressing the buttons on the outlets.
Now all you need to do is keep your son from pressing the buttons on the outlets.
At work we would put the GFCI in the garage and run the seperate outside circuits off of it so there was no chance of the GFCI having water damage.
And very rarely we would just use a GFCI breaker.
I feel the need...
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From: Motown
Originally Posted by Scottman111
Who were the retards that wired your house?
Although I've seen much worse...
Although I've seen much worse...
I think the crappy wiring came standard with the laced curtains in the garage option.
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From: PA
Originally Posted by moeronn
That is pretty rigged. The outdoor outlets should be on a separate circuit from anything inside.
Now all you need to do is keep your son from pressing the buttons on the outlets.
Now all you need to do is keep your son from pressing the buttons on the outlets.
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From: Los Angeles, CA
Originally Posted by Whiskers
....2 other electricians told me to check the outlets in the bathroom or kitchen
Did the outlet wiring meet local building codes at the time it was installed?
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Originally Posted by Will Y.
Well, if it's a local standardized practice, hopefully there was some rhyme or reason for that method of wiring.
Did the outlet wiring meet local building codes at the time it was installed?
Did the outlet wiring meet local building codes at the time it was installed?
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Wrong, sort of. There is a statewide code that most towns and townships can and do enforce locally.
It was common back to the 1980's to have all wet outlets (kitchen counter, bathroom, garage, unfinished basement) on a single circuit with a single GFCI (the interruptors were expensive back then).
It was common back to the 1980's to have all wet outlets (kitchen counter, bathroom, garage, unfinished basement) on a single circuit with a single GFCI (the interruptors were expensive back then).
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Wrong, sort of. There is a statewide code that most towns and townships can and do enforce locally.
It was common back to the 1980's to have all wet outlets (kitchen counter, bathroom, garage, unfinished basement) on a single circuit with a single GFCI (the interruptors were expensive back then).
It was common back to the 1980's to have all wet outlets (kitchen counter, bathroom, garage, unfinished basement) on a single circuit with a single GFCI (the interruptors were expensive back then).
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Some PA municipalities do require an inspection and/or CO on resale. The rest are happy to let buyers and sellers sue each other if the seller made un-permitted and/or non-compliant improvements. Freedom is good, but sometimes requires a lawyer.
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I have nine in my kitchen alone. It was fooking expensive to change them out when the wife wanted different color outlets to coordinate with her out-of-style tile backsplash.
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Must be code here because the builder wouldn't have spent the money if he didn't have to. Every outlet above a counter plus the one on the island are GFCIs, and not daisy-chained.
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I think I went a little overboard with GFCI outlet - using them for all above counter recepticles even when they are on the same circuit
I also learned that GFCI outlets don't work on switched circuits - i.e. for the disposal outlet under the sink.
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I don't think I said they are all on separate circuits -- in fact they are all on a single circuit. They just aren't daisy chained - they are wired like normal outlets, rather than using the special daisy-chaining lugs on one GFCI outlet to protect multiple outlets.
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