when did bathrooms start requiring dedicated circuits ?

[Stevenfyeager]

I've been told that when a home inspector flags items, if the house met the NEC the year it was built, then no upgrade is necessary. When did bathrooms start requiring to be dedicated ? Thank you.

 

[infinity]

HI's can not force anyone to do anything, all they can do is suggest. The 1996 NEC required a 20 amp branch circuit.

 

[JDB3]

HI's can not force anyone to do anything, all they can do is suggest. The 1996 NEC required a 20 amp branch circuit.

Do you have a code reference for that ? I don't remember that in the NEC.

 

[K8MHZ]

Do you have a code reference for that ? I don't remember that in the NEC.

1996 NEC 210-52(d) Bathrooms.....shall have at least one receptacle outlet supplied by a 20 amp branch circuit. Such circuits shall supply no other loads.

(Thanks Brian John)

 

[jusme123]

210.11(C)(3) 2020 NEC

 

[K8MHZ]

1993 NEC only required a receptacle in the bathroom. It did not say it had to be a 20 amp and did not require it to be dedicated.

 

[K8MHZ]

I've been told that when a home inspector flags items, if the house met the NEC the year it was built, then no upgrade is necessary. When did bathrooms start requiring to be dedicated ? Thank you.

1996 NEC

 

[hillbilly1]

But notice it doesn’t say “per bathroom” Tract houses have one circuit that feeds all of the bathrooms!

 

[K8MHZ]

But notice it doesn’t say “per bathroom” Tract houses have one circuit that feeds all of the bathrooms!

The way the 96 is written it says 'at least one' shall serve the required outlets. So it could be one serving all, or one each. I jumped ahead to the 2008 and no mention of dedicated circuits seem to be made for bathrooms.

 

[Stevenfyeager]

Thank you all.

 

[jaylectricity]

But notice it doesn’t say “per bathroom” Tract houses have one circuit that feeds all of the bathrooms!

Still ok to do that as long as it's only receptacles within the bathrooms that the circuit feeds. Not ideal, although sometimes you just have a half-bath on the first floor and the main bath on the second floor. No need to give both their own circuit as the high-load items are likely to just be used in the main bath.

I imagine a lot of places are being wired like that right now with the price of wire this year.

 

[growler]

I've been told that when a home inspector flags items, if the house met the NEC the year it was built, then no upgrade is necessary. When did bathrooms start requiring to be dedicated ? Thank you.

I have been to a home that was built about 2005 that was around 6K sq ft with 4 or 5 bathrooms that had all the receptacles in all the bathrooms on the same circuit.

The home buyer (new owner) was not a happy camper. I explained that what they did was really poor design but was legal as far as the NEC was concerned.

A home inspectors writes up things that may be of concern to the home buyer and is not a code inspection.

Even if something meets code it still may be a problem for a home buyer because the code book is not a design manual.