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Is
Your Family Protected? |
When I do a home inspection one of the
first things that catches my immediate attention is a home
without GFCI protected outlets. A GFCI other wise known, as a
Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter is an outlet designed to
protect you against electrical shock in wet locations. Areas
such as your bathroom, your kitchen sink, your garage, your
crawlspace and even outside your house.
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Lets say you're in the bathroom using a
blow dryer on your hair. You put the hair dryer down and it
some how falls into the sink. The GFCI will automatically turn
off the power and protect you from being shocked or in the
worse case electrocuted.
Receptacle GFCI outlets can be installed in place of the
standard duplex receptacle found in the house.
They fit in the standard outlet box and will
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protect you against ground faults from any
electrical appliance plugged into that outlet. In many case
the outlet can be installed so that it will also protect
other electrical outlets further "down stream" in
the branch circuit.
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