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Originally Posted by dyount
WOW! To find a GFI that runs to either a kitchen or bathroom is a way no way in the elec code. Bathrooms are 1 /20 am circuit that is GFI, Kitchens are 2/20 am circuits GFI and NEITHER can serve anything else. Think of the overload of hairdryer in the bath while someone is using a electric mower etc outside.
I'd call the builder with a "get your azz over here" tone and fix this free. Nothing stops a sparky from wiring and exterior set of GFI's off a basement (not laundry btw, that's separate). I prefer basement as one circuit/laundry as another/exterior as one circuit/garage as another. You've got a typical 200 amp panel you've got ton to spare in that you aren't running everything at one time.
When I do the rare single family home inspection I trip the exteriors first, then find where they go. Then kitchen, then bath, then arc fault the bedrooms etc. ALways making sure the required separate circuits are in fact separate.
Part of it is that a homeowner shouldn't need to run down the block and look under the deck to find a trip point on a GFI.
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Thanks for all that...really. In my case the builder is long gone.. What made the bath room GFI trip was that a hot wire came loose somehow...all I did was replace it. That was what caused the deck plug to go off. I never thought it could be the bath GFI so far away...but it was...
Stranger tales than mine have been told here...
