On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 12:37:10 AM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:28:08 -0400, micky
wrote:


This is one of the two GFCIs in the kitchen. The other one is working fine. GFCI that is dead is on a separate breaker which I have isolated. GFCI is protecting four other outlets. And they are all dead.

So it's the breaker, not the outlets.

I didn't read the above line closely, and my conclusion was unwarranted
by the statement above. However there are still lots of tests described
already to narrow down the problem and I doubt it's in the walls.

After 5 minutes, his next step should not have been to open the walls
like he claimed.


IDK about 5 mins, but it's possible he could arrive at the conclusion
that it's likely inside
the wall quickly. For example, if he used a non-contact voltage tester
to determine that there is voltage at the cable in a basement, right
where it goes up into the walls where the kitchen GFCI is and there
are no other boxes around that it could go to.

But even then, it's likely easier to just cut the cable there and run
a new segment to the GFCI instead of opening walls.