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Old 01-22-2006, 08:38 PM
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bathroom outlet not working

Here's the thing. Our bathroom has only one outlet. There are 4 places to plug things into. So, my hairdryer is in one, there is a plug-in air freshener in another, and then my husband plugged in a waterpik. My hairdryer was not going at the time. We lost all juice coming out of that outlet. None of them work. I went downstairs and didn't see any tripped breaker. The lights were still on in the bathroom. So, I just flipped them all off then back on. Still doesn't work. Ideas? Thanks!
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Old 01-22-2006, 09:02 PM
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I don't know how old your house is. For many years it has been required that bathroom outlets be protected by a GFCI. Often it is in the bathroom, but you may have a GFCI outlet in another bathroom or someplace like the garage, that feeds the bathroom. CHeck all other GFCI outlets you can find. Pust the test, then the reset buttons.
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Old 01-23-2006, 08:48 PM
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bathroom outlet now works

thanks so much for the help! I was able to find the GFCI outlet in the kitchen. It must feed into the bathroom. I reset it and started it. All works well. Many thanks again!
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Old 01-24-2006, 02:10 AM
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You might try to find THAT wire that's feeding upstairs from the downstream side of the gfci and re-wire it to the upper part of the kitchen gfci. Then replace one outlet upstairs in the bathroom with a new gfci so with nuisance tripping you won't have run downstairs all the time.
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