GFCI for Garbage Disposer and Dishwasher ??

[Florida Wen]

We recently purchased our house (in Florida) which was built in 1989. Obviously there are many items NOT up to recent electrical, plumbing and building codes that I plan to upgrade; such as electrical outlets within 6 feet of kitchen sink which presently are NOT GFCI protected, although the bathroom outlets, garage outlets and all exterior outlets are.
What concerns me right now and the reason I am posting this is that.... the GARBAGE DISPOSER (mounted to the stainless steel kitchen sink) is on it's own "regular" (20A NON-GFCI) breaker as well as the DISHWASHER (inches away from the sink) is another NON-GFCI breaker. Should any of these applances be "GFCI-protected" by it's own GFCI BREAKER ?? I can easily purchase two GFCI breakers and replace the "standard" breakers presently in the electrical breaker panel.

 

[electricmanscott]

Re: GFCI for Garbage Disposer and Dishwasher ??

Appliances you indicate are not required to have gfci protection in general. There are exceptions to that however.

 

[stud696981]

Re: GFCI for Garbage Disposer and Dishwasher ??

I concur, NO GFI protection needed per NEC. The only exception would be if the appliance listing required it, however I haven't seen any for these.

 

[charlie b]

Re: GFCI for Garbage Disposer and Dishwasher ??

The rules of this Forum prohibit us from providing "how-to" information to assist persons who are not electricians in the performance of their own electrical installation work. A "computer engineer" is not an electrician, and you are discussing upgrades and replacements as though you planned to do the work yourself. Therefore, I am closing this thread.

We are permitted to provide limited information along the lines of "the related code article is. . . ." So I will say that the rules for GFCI protection are in 210.8.