Master Bath Tied Into The Load Side Of GFCI Outlet Of The Main Bath

[ahawkscry]

Upon troubleshooting find this break in the circuit, I found the the main bathroom in the home which was built in 1962 to have the whole Master Bath on this same circuit as the Main Bath, but is tied in on the load side of the GFCI Outlet, The Master Bath doesn't have a GFCI Outlet in it's own room on the vanity next to the switchbox where it source of power is tied into. I know from the past where two GFCI outlets can trip each other out, when the second one is connected to the load side of the first GFCI.

My question is. Would you remove the first GFCI outlet, replace it with a standard outlet connected by pigtail, and replace the complete 20A circuit breaker for a GFCI Fault Protecting Breaker. or what are your thought's?

 

[sameguy]

What, I plug gfis into gfis with no problems.
Built in 1962 gfi added ? 1980? What's the problem? Put a new gfi in to replace the old 39 year old dead one.

 

[hbiss]

Your description is a little confusing. What I get is that there is one bath with a GFCI receptacle, the load side of which feeds another receptacle in another bath that is not a GFCI.

The second receptacle doesn't have to be a GFCI- it's protected by the first. Technically you should put a sticker on that receptacle that says"GFCI protected". You get a bunch of them in the carton with GFCI receptacles.

-Hal

 

[LarryFine]

Technically you should put a sticker on that receptacle that says"GFCI protected". You get a bunch of them in the carton with GFCI receptacles.

I thought you only needed to put those on GFCI-protected ungrounded grounding receptacles.

 

[hbiss]

I believe that would be one that says "No equipment ground".

-Hal

 

[LarryFine]

Maybe both.

 

[ptonsparky]

That GFCI was added well after the home was built. Mid 70s was about when they came out. Expensive at the time and if one would do, that is all that went in.

 

[kwired]

Outlets in second room are still GFCI protected, code is fine with that.

Might be convenient for users to have the ability to reset in the second room, but it can (most of the time will) still trip the GFCI in the first room if supplied via it's load terminals though and there is a ground fault. Any ground fault within the first room also still leaves the second room without power.