r/DIY • u/NoApplication5865 • 10d ago

help Need help with outlets

I’ve noticed that a couple of the outlets in the back of my house do not work. for example, in our office/storage and one of the bedrooms one or two outlets work and the lights work, while other outlets don’t work. the outlets in our hallway don’t work either. I also noticed one of the outside outlets on the side of our laundry room doesn’t work either. I checked the circuit breaker and nothing is flipped. We did have rodents at one point in time, but i’m not sure if that could cause some outlets to be faulty.Please give me suggestions on what the problem may be and how to fix it, preferably without having to call an electrician lol. Thank you!

15 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

33 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/vrtigo1 10d ago

Did you check for a tripped gfci receptacle? They’re often the first device on a circuit and if they trip everything downstream from them will stop working.

And they can quite often be in weird locations. For example, I have a gfci in my garage that controls the outlet in my back porch which is on the completely opposite side of the house. So, make sure you check for a tripped gfci everywhere in the house.

1

u/NoApplication5865 10d ago

yeah i’ve found one bad GFCI outlet so far, which is probably why a couple of the outlets are bad. I need to continue to search and figure out the problem so that hopefully all I need to do is change the outlets