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>Home Depot non-bulk prices Definitely check out the 10-packs; if you own a house that isn't new, and are already doing some wiring work, it's not a bad idea to
by magduf 7y ago
>Home Depot non-bulk prices
Definitely check out the 10-packs; if you own a house that isn't new, and are already doing some wiring work, it's not a bad idea to keep some extras around and maybe replace some of the crappy older outlets when they're so cheap.
>Also worth noting is that you can wire your circuit in a way that the first one is GFCI outlet, and the subsequent ones are daisy-chained to it,
Yes, this is actually normal for kitchens, where all the counter outlets are on the same circuit. Just put the GFCI on the outlet nearest the breaker box, and all the others are then protected by it. It is really annoying, however, when people retrofit these things into old houses and you get something like a downstairs bathroom outlet that has no apparent GFCI, but then it trips, and you have to hunt around the house for the GFCI outlet only to find it in a bedroom on the upper floor. I rented a house for a while where both bathrooms and both bedrooms were all on the same circuit (lights too!), and on an old GFCI outlet that would frequently trip and leave me in the dark. Extremely unsafe.
>I think the reason for few outlets in buildings is not the cost of the device, but rather labor required to put it in.
Yep, that's exactly the reason, but it's still annoying because years later, you have to move furniture around to find an outlet that your device's cord can reach because there just weren't enough installed.
- haberman 7y ago> It is really annoying, however, when people retrofit these things into old houses and you get something like a downstairs bathroom outlet that has no apparent GFCI, but then it trips, and you have to hunt around the house for the GFCI outlet only to find it in a bedroom on the upper floor. Maybe easiest to just have GFI on the breakers?
- magduf 7y agoThey do have GFCI breakers. I'm not sure how they compare in cost, but one disadvantage is that you can't easily test them (who ever bothers going to their breaker box to test the GFCI occasionally?), nor can you easily reset them when they do trip.