To clarify - bathrooms, garages, accessory buildings, outdoors, crawl spaces, unfinished basements, kitchens, laundry, utility and wet bar sinks, boathouses are all places that the NEC requires GFCI. Even if you are not in a code area you should have GFCI which is the only part of your electrical system that is specifically designed to save your life. Everything else saves your wire, equipment, and house.
Spaceman
slurryguy wrote:
Yeah, I forgot all about GFCI circuit breakers. Some houses, especially fairly new construction, will have GFI protection inside the breaker panel. That works great too, as long as you are plugging in to one of those circuits. In that case the outlets won't have the little "test" and "reset" buttons on them. Of course, my post was already getting long winded, so it's probably a good thing I forgot. hehehe Hey spaceman? Do you know if current code requires GFCI in a garage? Spaceman wrote: IF that house is wired at least to the electrical code and that water garden is connected to an outside receptacle, then it is probably on a GFCI circuit. Ideally there should be a separate circuit for the water garden that runs back to the circuit breaker panel and is connected to a GFCI circuit breaker. Someone tested to see how much current it takes to stop your heart, and GFCI breakers and receptacles are supposed to trip before your heart stops. Any wiring around water should be GFCI protected. Even with GFCI circuits you should use basic safety and common sense. Spaceman ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:papercreters-digest@yahoogroups.com mailto:papercreters-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: papercreters-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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