Code & safety requirements

BurbMan wrote:

The best is the fact that this is a 2 1/2 bath home...there was ONE GFCI outlet upstairs in the guest bath. Wire runs from the panel in that basement then upstairs to that GFCI, and the other two bathrooms on the main level as well as front/back outside outlets are all wired to the load side of that GFCI as one 15A circuit!! Technically correct since all those locations are protected by GFCIs, but two hairdryers and there goes the breaker. I rewired so that each outlet now has its own GFCI but they are still on one circuit. particularly annoying since the TT is plugged into one of the outside outlets.

So case in point, correct per code but pure idiotic!!!!

Fortunately, this garbage is no longer code approved, but It was standard procedure for a lot of clowns, back in the day. I have done countless service calls for folks that have been in their homes for a decade or two, and suddenly have a dead garage, baths, exterior receptacles etc.... and there is no apparent reason for it. Typically I can solve the problem without getting the tools out of the truck, because somewhere, hidden behind something, is the GFCI outlet that feeds the whole mess. It's under a work bench, behind a pile of rakes and shovels, or even buried deep in the bushes, but it feeds 2-300' of Romex and typically ALL the baths and outside outlets, if not more. You are correct, it was a sorry way to barely get the job done.