I powerwashed my house yesterday and now my gfci receptacle keeps
tripping off every time I turn my lights on in our bathroom. Any
thoughts on the problem causing this and how to correct it in a safe
manner? When I hit reset the bathroom light will stay on for a minute
or two at most before the GFCI receptable gets tripped and shuts it
down.

wrote:
I powerwashed my house yesterday and now my gfci receptacle keeps
tripping off every time I turn my lights on in our bathroom. Any
thoughts on the problem causing this and how to correct it in a safe
manner? When I hit reset the bathroom light will stay on for a minute
or two at most before the GFCI receptable gets tripped and shuts it
down.

Hi,
My guess. Your bathroom receptacles are sharing GFCI with outside
receptavles?

Tony Hwang wrote:
wrote:
I powerwashed my house yesterday and now my gfci receptacle keeps
tripping off every time I turn my lights on in our bathroom. Any
thoughts on the problem causing this and how to correct it in a safe
manner? When I hit reset the bathroom light will stay on for a minute
or two at most before the GFCI receptable gets tripped and shuts it
down.

Hi,
My guess. Your bathroom receptacles are sharing GFCI with outside
receptavles?


Yes, I believe my bathroom receptacles share gfci with ones in the
garage. Any thoughts? Thanks for trying to help me.

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Tony Hwang wrote:

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I powerwashed my house yesterday and now my gfci receptacle keeps
tripping off every time I turn my lights on in our bathroom. Any
thoughts on the problem causing this and how to correct it in a safe
manner? When I hit reset the bathroom light will stay on for a minute
or two at most before the GFCI receptable gets tripped and shuts it
down.


Hi,
My guess. Your bathroom receptacles are sharing GFCI with outside
receptavles?



Yes, I believe my bathroom receptacles share gfci with ones in the
garage. Any thoughts? Thanks for trying to help me.

Dry out whatever outdoor outlets you soaked.

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Dry out whatever outdoor outlets you soaked.

He might want to run out and buy a "multi-pac" of GFCIs and put a separate
GFCI on each outlet rather than having the first of a string do the job.
That way even if he gets moisture problems only one outlet will be affected.

As others have said, you got water in the outside outlets which seem to be
on the same GFCI circuit. I would replace the outside outlets and caulk with
silicone around them as well.


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I powerwashed my house yesterday and now my gfci receptacle keeps
tripping off every time I turn my lights on in our bathroom. Any
thoughts on the problem causing this and how to correct it in a safe
manner? When I hit reset the bathroom light will stay on for a minute
or two at most before the GFCI receptable gets tripped and shuts it
down.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:40:40 -0500, "John Gilmer"
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Dry out whatever outdoor outlets you soaked.

He might want to run out and buy a "multi-pac" of GFCIs and put a separate
GFCI on each outlet rather than having the first of a string do the job.
That way even if he gets moisture problems only one outlet will be affected.



At least limit a GFCI to controlling a single room. It makes
troubleshooting easier.

One exception I've seen is an indoor GFCI that controls an outdoor
outlet on the other side of a wall. It makes it easy to control
holiday lights from inside.
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