Hey guys, Anyone know a good electrician to do some minor work in my home. When we were going to sell our house we had the inspector tell us we had to change all the plugs in our kitchen into the ones that have a reset button. We got someone to change out 3 of them and for some reason all of those plugs work but a few of our other plugs are now not working. We didn't notice the problem because we didn't use the appliances or range hood that is attached to those particular outlets until recently. Im pretty sure he must have left a loose wire or tripped something so i am looking for someone to just basically fix the ones that are there and change any other outlets we had to, to the reset style. If you guys know anyone that does the work good and could do it this coming week and doesn't charge and arm and a leg please contact me. Thanks.
Martinez Electric HMEL- It's on the East side of 610 between 225 and 45 south. My uncle is the owner, give him a call for a good estimate: 713-641-6624 .
Stack, if wired correctly, only the plug at the beginning of the circuit needs to be a gfci. Every plug in the circuit after that one is protected. If the GFCI at the beginning of the circuit is tripped, all the plugs after that one in that circuit will be dead. Check all your GFCI plugs to make sure they have not been tripped. If one has, it could account for your dead plugs and no electrician needed. All you need to do is reset the tripped one.
I have checked most of them and they are all not reset. It's very wierd that like 1 plug in the garage and 1 plug in the kitchen are the only ones that are not getting power now. Neither is on a GFCI plug. The ones that are GFCI now are working fine but those two are not working. So I'm not sure why they are like that. Shadow Lakes area. Westpark between Dairy Ashford and Kirkwood
WhOA, whoa, whoa... I should have sent you an email about that. I certainly want to know how your issue went. I asked how it went but you never responded...
Stack, I can tell you right now what your problem is. The electrician got the terminals mixed up. On GFCI outlets, there are specific holes where the "line" lines comes in (incoming power from the main box) and where the "load" lines go out (the lines that supply power to the next outlet). They aren't like regular outlet plugs where it doesn't matter where you hook the hot and neutral lines to. I know this because I wired my whole house myself and made that mistake. It caused several of my outlets not to work. BTW ...your inspector was right to point that out, but your electrician was wrong for doing what he did ....all he had to do was check to see that a GFCI outlet was at the beginning of the circuit (like Moe said) and the rest are protected ....no replacements of outlets were necessary ..the inspector is only noting it because hes not going to remove the outlets to check the circuit call your electrician back out and tell him to fix it for free or switch them all back the way they were
Well the thing is the person was a family friend not like we paid him or anything. I know exactly what your talking about Codell because i have wired those outlets myself. The only thing i was wondering that if they were wired wrong wouldn't those outlets that are wired wrong not work? Last i rememberered when i did wire the GFCI one wrong it wouldn't work and the reset button wouldn't click in place if that makes sense. My mom doesn't want to be rude to someone who helped us out and say hey come do it again....(mom's too nice) so she would rather get the electrician to do it right...or just someone that knows what they are doing to fix it all and pay them and get it over with. I don't think it should be that expensive right?
Stack, an electrician could probably fix it with a minimum charge. Since you have done some wiring, you could do some checking yourself. Just turn off the breakers to those circuits and pull the non-working plugs and inspect the connections. If they look okay, pull and inspect the plugs up-line (your best guess) from the ones not working. Typically, upline would be the next plug between the non-working one and the breaker box.
I had this exact problem earlier today. I was replacing a GFCI plug because it was the wrong color, but my condo wiring is a little outdated. I followed the instructions perfectly, but the outlets further on in the line weren't working. After a while, I eventually called an electrician and he informed me that this happens a lot with older wiring. Took him less than 10 minutes to fix the problem. Plus, I'm getting the feeling back in my left arm, so that's good!
Yes all of those are working fine, They are not tripped out. These GFCI's have a light that will show errors and not reset right. I have checked the breakers and none of them are tripped or anything like that.
