On 21 Mar 2007 03:41:11 GMT, ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote:

In article , (RBM) writes:

| It's fine to install the outlet in the cabinet, although I'm sure it would
| meet the bathroom outlet requirement, which is to say, to meet code, you may
| need an outlet outside the cabinet as well.

Speaking of outlets in medicine cabinets...

My house (like many of its age) has bathroom outlets integrated into the
medicine cabinet/light or over-cabinet light assemblies. It seemed to me
that it should be easy to find replacement lighting fixtures with integrated
GFCI outlets, but after poking around the big box stores and doing a lot of
Googling I didn't see any. At first I thought that outlets in bathroom
lighting fixtures were simply no longer allowed and/or that you are expected
to install a normal GFCI in the wall if you are replacing the cabinet, but
then I found some bathroom lighting fixtures with *non*-GFCI outlets.
(Unfortunately, the non-GFCI outlets aren't Decora so swapping in a GFCI
would require some metal work and would probably void the UL listing...)

Eventually my Google search came across a patent on (I think) the concept
of GFCI outlets in bathroom lighting fixtures. Please tell me this isn't
the reason for the scarcity of such products.

I have no idea, but you can find the circuit breaker for your light
fixture with outlet, and replace that breaker with a GFI breaker.
That fulfills the code and will work with any outlet, in a fixture or
not.

Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com