GFCI problem

[TexaRican]

Ok, contractor ran a saw while I was gone this week from my front porch outlet and blew it. We have searched the house 10 times over and can’t find a reset outlet for it. Same circuit as the master bath and all the outlets there are out. There obviously should be a reset outlet in the master bath but there is not. We have 2 in the garage and 1 in the kitchen.

Son of the previous owner claimed to be a pro house flipper and did a 6 month remodel before we bought. I have found lots of really amateur work but I can’t fathom someone could be stupid enough to wall-in an outlet. There must be another answer here.
Reset all breakers twice now so that is not it.


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[tps7742]

I am assuming you looked inside and out for the resets? In the garage outlets also? The reason I am asking one of my gfci resets is in my garage. I have had them kick it off in the main breaker bloc also.

[Stan R]

Something under the bath or kitchen sink


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[Quackerbox]

In a sofit for Christmas lights?

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[FLASH_OUTDOORS]

Something under the bath or kitchen sink


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This, check closets, upper and lower cabinets, bathroom plug closest to the panel, etc. They could have hid it anywhere.


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[TexaRican]

Have torn the house apart. I've seen them hidden before so I'm looking everywhere. As stated, there are 2 in the garage but neither work for this circuit. Have not thought about the sofit comment so I'll go look there.

[Greenheadless]

Check for a GFCI breaker in your load center as well.

How do you know it is a GFCI circuit?

[flywise]

Attic

[BolilloLoco]

They might have put outlet in ceiling, inside light fixture, up high on wall or another location on outside of house. Maybe near water softener. Maybe it’s not GFCI protected.

[Bill]

Gfci combined with the 20 amp breaker in your distribution panel. Look there. There will be test and reset buttons on it.


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[Walker]

May sound dumb but have you checked you breakers/fuse box

[TexaRican]

I’m a big dummy. Went back to the breaker box for one more run through. Instead of just flipping to on, I pushed the red test to trip and then reclosed on the GFI breakers. That fixed it.



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[Bill]

Not dumb. Glad you found it.

When I did home handyman work I had a homeowner with a gfci outlet in a hallway tripping- pretty random. Turned out somebody put one there to connect to the load side for a sump pump. The pump motor connection had a small leak, tripping it.

Live and learn.

Go shoot your bow.


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[db@100]

Well, you just cheated an electrician out of an overtime service call. He could have come out and did the same thing and charged ya $150.00.

[sasqy]

Could be anywhere on any circuit !
Will prob be first in line closest to panel.