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Adding GFCI to Bathroom, Older House
My house was built in Texas in 1959 and has 2 wire electrical circuits
in the flexible metal conduits. The only outlet in my bathroom is one that is part of the wall lighting fixture over the medicine cabinet. I would like to install a GFCI just to the left side of the medicine cabinet. The bedroom on the other side of the wall has an outlet below and a couple of feet to the right of where I want to install the GFCI. My plan is to cut out a large enought square of drywall (about 3 feet by 3 feet) from the bedroom to expose its outlet plus the area where I will be installing the GFCI in the bathroom. Then I'll run about a 6' length of 12/2 wiring with ground from that outlet through one stud and up to power the new GFCI, and ground the boxes together with the ground wire. I would rather run the wire from the bedroom outlet than from the bathroom wall lighting fixture because the that way wallboard repairs will be hidden behind some furniture. If I have to use the light fixture the wallboard repairs will be more obvious. Does this sound like a workable plan, and can I use a 15 Amp GFCI since it's an older house? Will this wiring addition cause any problems when and if I decide to sell the house? In other words, will they say that since I've added one GFCI I now have to bring the entire wiring system up to code? |
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