Two of bathroom electric outlets stoped working?

Question

I tried switching the circeit breakers and they're still not working. This house is about 15 yrs old and well maintained. Please help...I don't know how to fix this?

I just checked both and neither one has a reset button.

Answer 1

One of your bathroom outlets has a re-set button right on it. Press that.

Answer 2

So -- you checked and found no re-set button on the wall plug--Check in the circuit box on the breakers and reset again.No luck---?? Still not working?? Could be the breaker itself is bad . Are you capable of checking to see if the breaker is good?? If you are careful--you can do this : If you have no test meter--take a working lamp(light)--strip the end wires--breaker set to on--touch 1 end of the wire to the screw on the breaker(where the black wire connects) and the other wire touch it to the neutral side where all the white and bare wires are connected. The light should light up --if current is flowing. If it lights up--then the breaker is good. ==Turn off all your breakers to play it safe---take the 2 wall outlets apart and look for a loose wire/burned off or damaged -- this can kill both plugs by "opening the circuit" and not permitting electricity to flow. You may need to replace the wall plug itself--propably the first one in line from the breaker box--which will supply electricity on to the second wall plug--if this 1st one is bad then the 2nd one will be dead also.If you don"t feel sure about yourself doing this --then call for some help. Not much of a job--if you know what you are looking for and how to do it. Good Luck.

Answer 3

Your bathroom should have Ground fauilt receiptables in them(as well as outside outlets, and those in the kitchen near a sink.
Check to ensure they are reset and will stay reset. if you clicks but does not stay on it is bad or shorted.
Some times a contractor will use a Ground fault breaker but most uses receiptables as the cost is about $12 for a receptable and $35 for a breaker.Check and make sure the breaker is not tripped.
Usually due to the cost of ground fault breakers and receipts contractors will use one receiptable as a feeding devise and feed the other bathroom receipts from it making them groundfault protected also.
Another problem you might check is that contractors often use receiptables and swithes in which the wire is not wrapped around a screw but is pushed into the back of the devise. This does not ensure a good strong tight connection and causes a lot of fires but is allowed as the mobile home industry and contractors depend on them for cheap pricing.
You can buy a good Sq.D Wrigglers Testor at Lowes or Home depot for about 20 bucks or a digital testor which would serve you well around the house.
Disconnect your breaker or fuses feeding the bath room circuit and take the receptables out. check to see if they are tight.
If they have the wires pluged into the back of the receptable replace them and put the wires around the side screws on the new receptables and tighten them securely and reset the breaker after installing the recepts back into the box.

Answer 4

Hi, Do your outlets have a reset, red, button? some bathroom outlets have them. Sounds like you may have either a bad appliance hooked up to this, like a hairdryer, or such, and the cut off is just telling you about the danger. I would unplug everything first, then start from scratch. Sometimes my outlets can only carry just so much juice and when I add anything, it could even be a toaster, the electric goes off.

Moral of the story, when you figure this out, you will find even electric outlets have personality.

Answer 5

The 2 outlets are probably wired together look at both one may have 2 buttons on it this is a GFI outlet push the reset button. If one of them does not have this call an electrician

Answer 6

There is either a short somewhere,or a mouse chewed through your wires.Are there breakers on the outlets themselves,or is the breaker in the basement?Do the outlets smell like electricity,or fire?Do the breakers keep popping ,or do they stay on when you reset them?

Answer 7

where is the house located?
according to the current NEC, the bathroom receptacles are required to be on their own circuit. Either there is a GFCI breaker, or in on of your bathrooms there is a GFCI receptacle. Either could be bad, or there is another problem.
In residential, most wiremen are pieceworkers. Which means they have a vested interest in going as fast as possible. some of them do not use the proper tools to strip wire when trimming out the house and will seriously nick the conductors connected to several devices.
Though you house worked for 15 years, plugging and unplugging hair dryers and what not into your bath receptacles could have finally caused the weak link( the nicked conductor) to break completely. If you de-energize your house (completely by turning off the main breaker) you can open up and check the soundness of the wiring at each receptacle in all your bathrooms. You will probably find the damaged conductor. When you find it, restrip the wire and reinstall it properly in the device where it failed.
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Answer 8

Are theh Ground Fault outlets? If so (Especially since they are in the bathroom; there should be a little button on them that says "Reset",) they are may bere wired in series and when one went out the other did. In that case, resetting both outlets should solve the problem.

Answer 9

It might be the ground fault protector, do either of the outlets have a little red and black button? If so you need to reset those by pushing (I think the black one in) until it clicks, and resets.

Answer 10

If there is a Ground Fault Interrupters(GFI), one plug will have a small breaker built in the outlet itself. Sometimes it is in the kitchen, sometimes its in the bathroom, try this if GFI is installed