As outlet wiring is daisy chained together, if you have an open wire, it
will affect all the outlets downstream of the open. You want to look for the
problem in the last "working" outlet in the chain or the first problem
outlet in the chain. Keep in mind, if the house is two years old and in the
US, the bedroom outlets should be AFCI protected, which may make it more
difficult to use test equipment on the circuit


"Jeffrey" wrote in message
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Hello everyone. Just had a quick question. Our house is only 2 years
old and up until a couple motnhs ago everything seemed to work fine as
far as electricity is concerned. Mysteriously, in our bedroom, 3
sockets stopped working. It was not a breaker, nor a GFCI, etc....Just
these three. Over at home depot I picked up a little tester with the 3
lights that tells what is wrong supposedly. In two of the 3 I got
Hot/Ground Reverse and in one I got Open Neutral. So, in my thinking I
could just open up the sockets and switch the hot ground on the 2 and
then connect the presumed detached neutral on the other. But there has
got to be a reason this happened on 3 at the same time. Is there anyone
out there who can point me in the right direction?