The code in force at the time his house was built may not have required the
GFCI, therefore he's not required to put on there upon replacement.

For that matter, whose to know anyway? (regardless of when it was built)

--
Steve Barker




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Disconnect the wires from the existing switch, determine which one is the
live wire. Once you know this, connect the live wire to the side of the
combination switch-outlet that has only two brass screws with a bridge
connecting them together. The other black wire, which is the load wire,
goes to the brass screw on the opposite side of the switch. You now need
to run a white wire from the silver screw on the outlet to the two white
wires connected together with a wire nut. Install your ground wire to the
green screw and you're done. I will caution you that by current NEC , all
bathroom outlets are supposed to be GFCI protected. They do manufacture
combination switch-gfci outlets as well