GFCI repairs or replacements must be handled carefully to avoid damage and injuries. To find out more about our GFCI services, call us right away! You can also request a project estimate and schedule a meeting with a trained and licensed electrician in Charleston, South Carolina, using our online form.

Even minor errors on the accompanying home inspection report can be very upsetting when trying to sell a house. The kitchen, bathroom, garage, and exterior outlets in homes must all have GFCI protection; as a result, if the inspection report shows that the GFCI needs to be repaired or checked by a licensed electrician, the issue will likely need to be resolved prior to the home closing.

One of two problems—most frequently a broken device or breaker that has to be replaced—can make GFCI outlets and breakers fail to trigger. Making sure an unground circuit is protected by a GFCI is the second problem. When a GFCI tester is connected and tested with the GFCI device under test, the circuit will not trip even if the GFCI device is in good operating order.

A shunt, which moves a small amount of current from the hot wire to the ground wire, is used by a GFCI Tester to trip a circuit to make sure it is operating properly. The GFCI trips as a result of this. Your ungrounded circuit inhibits the shunt from functioning properly because it doesn’t have a ground connection. Right now, the only way to test the circuit is to depress the GFCI device’s test button; if the device trips, your GFCI protection is effective.

Is using unground electrical outlets in your home dangerous? The quick answer is that they do not provide a shock threat as long as they are GFCI protected.

Arc Fault / GFCI Protection should be installed in all living areas of the home, even if previous homes were only required to have it in a few specific locations. This is the code requirement that your older home would have to adhere to if it were being constructed today.