GFCI Installation

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.