On Oct 26, 12:51 pm, Jay Chan wrote:
When I turn off the light in my bathroom, the GFCI outlet inside the
bathroom will also go dead. This is quite inconvenient because I need
to use that outlet to recharge an electric razor, and two electric
powered tooth brushes. Now, I must leave them outside the bathroom in
order to have them recharged.

The strange thing is that I see the same situation in another bathroom
in my house. I have also see the same thing in my brother-in-law
apartment -- the power of the whole bathroom is off as soon as I turn
off the light.

Why is that? What's the reasoning behind this?

Your bathroom was wired with a switched outlet originally, a REGULAR
outlet. At some point, some genius decided to install a GFCI in place
of the switched outlet.

A properly wired GFCI will disconnect not only itself, but everything
else "downline" from it when the power is removed. Light switch goes
off, all power goes out.