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Hi all
I've been doing a lot of work on the house lately, and one thing I've not paid attention to much is the wiring. I've always known that there are no GFI outlets in the bathrooms, so I went to the main panel, and sure enough, there's a GFI breaker there for the bathrooms, and it works. However in looking at the rest of the panel, I found something potentially scary: ALL the outlets in the house, garage included, are wired to a SINGLE 100 amp breaker. I don't know if this was legal in 1978, when the house was built. I recall at my old house, built in 1964, had a lot more breakers. However there are two 240v breakers, one for the stove and one for the laundry. I can just imagine getting a Sunfire H.T. subwoofer, or some such device, something catastrophically bad happens, and my house burns to the ground while the breaker happily feeds whatever's going on downstream!
So any advice from those familiar would be greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Ross
I've been doing a lot of work on the house lately, and one thing I've not paid attention to much is the wiring. I've always known that there are no GFI outlets in the bathrooms, so I went to the main panel, and sure enough, there's a GFI breaker there for the bathrooms, and it works. However in looking at the rest of the panel, I found something potentially scary: ALL the outlets in the house, garage included, are wired to a SINGLE 100 amp breaker. I don't know if this was legal in 1978, when the house was built. I recall at my old house, built in 1964, had a lot more breakers. However there are two 240v breakers, one for the stove and one for the laundry. I can just imagine getting a Sunfire H.T. subwoofer, or some such device, something catastrophically bad happens, and my house burns to the ground while the breaker happily feeds whatever's going on downstream!
So any advice from those familiar would be greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Ross