jeff48356
Senior Member
- Location
- Livonia, Michigan
Since kitchens and bathrooms have a requirement to have outlets on a separate 20-amp circuit with no lights or other outlets on them, why doesn't the same rule apply to outlets in a garage or outdoors? It would make sense, using the same logic for the reason why kitchens and baths need them. Garages are where people plug in power tools, so you wouldn't want to run them on 15-amp circuits, especially if they are part of a general lighting circuit. Same for outdoors -- yard tools, Christmas lights, etc. can also draw a lot of power which can overload a general lighting circuit. Whenever I wire garages and houses, I always wire all the garage outlets to a separate 20-amp circuit, and I wire an additional one for the outdoor outlets as well. All GFI protected, of course.