Hi everyone,

Today we wanted to share a quick tip with you about your bathroom outlets.

We receive calls on a fairly regular basis that customers bathroom outlets aren’t working. The customer hears the outlet trip, they head down to their breaker or fuse panel but there are no tripped breakers or blown fuses. Help! They say!

Before they drop $100.00+ on a service call and we rush over to their house we walk them through a quick and easy troubleshooting tip and here it is:

Unplug whatever it was that you were using when the outlet tripped then go to each washroom in your house until you find the one with the GFCI outlet. A GFCI outlet can be identified by the two little buttons in the center of the outlet like the one in the image below. Usually this is the cause of the trip. Push in the reset button on the outlet and head back to the washroom you were in when the outlet stopped working. Generally this will solve the problem. If not, search the rest of your home for another GFCI outlet and see if it’s been tripped and perform the same test.

All washroom outlets are required to have GFCI protected outlets and many electricians will wire them downstream from the GFCI outlet so they only need to install one $30.00+ outlet.

The same troubleshooting tip can be used for outdoor outlets as well. Check all of your outdoor outlets for a GFCI outlet as they’ll likely all be fed from that one outlet.

If the GFCI keeps tripping, make sure that you have unplugged everything on that circuit and try resetting it.

If that doesn’t solve the problem, ElecTrade Electrical Contractors has electricians standing by who would be happy to help solve your problem.

Call or email us today at 519-648-ELEC(3532) or info@electrade.ca