J.P.
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- United States
I have never wired a house. Today I am wiring a house ( boss's buddy ). Usually I do commercial offices or industrial shops.
In the bathrooms there is a can over the showers/ tubs. a heat/ light/ vent combo and vanity lights.
My helper had wired houses at his last job. He said it was normal to put the whole bathroom on the load side of the GFI..... I really don't like that idea.
I would rather put a GfI breaker on the whole room and just let the GFI recep be the end of the line instead of feeding the lights. So if the recep trips the lights stay on.
Do GFI breakers get along with lights. I have had bad luck with GFI receps feeding lights in the past, usually on temporary power poles.
As I understand it the whole rest of the house needs to be AFCI? Except perhaps kitchen GFI's and garage GFI"s..... I didn't find what I was looking for there.
We just moved to the 2011 code cycle in our state if that helps.
In the bathrooms there is a can over the showers/ tubs. a heat/ light/ vent combo and vanity lights.
My helper had wired houses at his last job. He said it was normal to put the whole bathroom on the load side of the GFI..... I really don't like that idea.
I would rather put a GfI breaker on the whole room and just let the GFI recep be the end of the line instead of feeding the lights. So if the recep trips the lights stay on.
Do GFI breakers get along with lights. I have had bad luck with GFI receps feeding lights in the past, usually on temporary power poles.
As I understand it the whole rest of the house needs to be AFCI? Except perhaps kitchen GFI's and garage GFI"s..... I didn't find what I was looking for there.
We just moved to the 2011 code cycle in our state if that helps.