Went into the basement shop this morning and one of the (preexisting) outlets was not working.  Went to check the circuit breaker panel and could not find anything wrong there but another outlet was not working. Then the wife came down and said her hair drier was not working in either bathroom.  She said she had been hosing off the front porch yesterday and might have got the exterior outlet wet.   It was not a GFCI.  So first, I went into the main bathroom and reset the GFCI - it does not have an indicator light, but it clicked. Then the other bathroom worked, the basement light and basement outlet worked.   

 

So, one GFCI in main bathroom.  Then to an outlet below it on one end of the house, a basement outlet on the back of the house, an exterior outlet on the front of the house, and a bath outlet on the other end of the house.   All that NM cable to save buying one or two more GCFI.

Time to give Artie a call.   Danl

8 hours ago, kmealy said:

So, one GFCI in main bathroom.  Then to an outlet below it on one end of the house, a basement outlet on the back of the house, an exterior outlet on the front of the house, and a bath outlet on the other end of the house.   All that NM cable to save buying one or two more GCFI.

 They are all require to be GFCI. Feeding all those plugs from the load side of the GFI meets the code. Assuming when your house was built NM wire was probably cheaper than a GFCI.

It works kind of like,...

 

 

The bumper sticker says….. “Wiring is NOT a hobby!           Iff’n you lived closer, we could fix that!

11 hours ago, Artie said:

The bumper sticker says….. “Wiring is NOT a hobby!           Iff’n you lived closer, we could fix that!

 

Once retired Everything's a hobby! 

"Not knowing nothing about the subject never stopped me from being no expert before!"

    Archie Bunker

The major difference between a hobby and work is that hobby tools cost us users more.  When we were employees, someone else bought them. 

Edited August 16, 20241 yr by Gene Howe

11 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

The major difference between a hobby and work is that hobby tools cost us users more.  When we were employees, someone else bought them. 

Where I get them somebody else bought them. 

Things I don't understand;

 

Any generation younger than being a Boomer.