What circuits do exterior receptacles go on?

[retirede]

My house was built in the 90s. Each bathroom GFCI feeds one outdoor receptacle. That was common before the bathroom restrictions were added to the code.

The first year we lived there, I put up a bunch of Christmas lights. Then my daughter fired up her hair dryer.......

It wasn’t against code, but it was bad design!

 

[kwired]

My house was built in the 90s. Each bathroom GFCI feeds one outdoor receptacle. That was common before the bathroom restrictions were added to the code.

The first year we lived there, I put up a bunch of Christmas lights. Then my daughter fired up her hair dryer.......

It wasn’t against code, but it was bad design!

Was also common back then in mobile and manufactured homes to put a heat tape receptacle under the house that was supplied by bathroom GFCI.

 

[retirede]

Was also common back then in mobile and manufactured homes to put a heat tape receptacle under the house that was supplied by bathroom GFCI.

The good thing in doing that was if the heat tape caused a GFCI trip, you were more likely to realize it before the pipes froze than if was on its own GFCI breaker.

 

[kwired]

The good thing in doing that was if the heat tape caused a GFCI trip, you were more likely to realize it before the pipes froze than if was on its own GFCI breaker.

Maybe. Seems like they were often on a outlet in a bath that seldom had the receptacle used vs say the main or master bath.

 

[Frank DuVal]

put front GFCI on switch to prevent recp used by homeless.

Ha! I once came home (I was single at the time) and saw a small TV glow in the alley behind my house. Hmmm, went and found Gary, a boy who grew up in the neighborhood, laying in a sleeping bag, watching TV with an extension cord plugged into my shed. Sad situation with his family, who was no longer in the neighborhood. So I wished him well and went back to my house. Most of the time he stayed with a girl several miles away.