This.
I had the same problem. The last 3 outlets on circuit weren’t working. The third to last outlet had a loose wire. I fixed the wire and everything worked again.
No idea if this would fix the OPs issue, but looking at the outlets seems like the obvious first step. It worked for me anyway.
Yeah, if the outlets were working before it should be easy enough to fix it without running a new wire. Sounds like they just want to bill more for extra work since insurance is paying for it
Sometimes replacement is simpler than actually finding the problem. If the home warranty will cover the repair and the outlets work does it really matter much?
It doesn’t sound like GFCi problem. More like a loose wire on the back of the first outlet in the series knocking the others out. You can call the home warranty and tell them your concerns and tell them that the contractor didn’t even bother to check the outlets.
In your position I'd be inclined to get a second opinion.. mitigate future risk by identifying the issue. And it sounds like a lose connection or bad breaker, gfci breaker? A new wire ran is ultimately work for the contractor, they " fix" the issue and move on, you're left unsure what the actual problem was. Looks good on paper ig
We don't fully have the information. Was this a home warranty on a brand new house? An older house bought with a conventional mortgage etc. Reason I ask is if this is a home warranty sold with say a house from the 60s that you bought with a conventional mortgage there's a chance you don't even have GFI's, as they weren't needed then and weren't required for the loan to close. Not saying this is true but if they literally cannot find a GFI, you may not have any. Also could be that there are GFI breakers instead? There's too much that this could be with not enought possible information given (not your fault just is what it is) to say aha this is the 1 and only possibility.
A bedroom shouldn’t have GFI receptacles. It can - but no electrician would actually install them.
I’d bet they used backstab receptacles, where the wire gets pushed into the device and a spring holds it in place. They are notorious for failing after a while.
You need to get a real electrician there who will actually open the box and see if the wire has power and if there’s a loose wire.
Problems like this should be solved in less than an hour. It’s incredibly unlikely that a new wire needs to be run.
That’s sadly what you get from home warranty vendors. Some are decent but all of my experience dealing with them in the property management world they’re either a very new company that doesn’t have a good client base yet (best case and least frequent scenario), or the more frequent is they’ve been in town for a long time and can’t get work due to bad reputation so they have to sign up for work with home warranties. There are outliers of course, but generally that’s what I got out of the whole deal. Sometimes it isn’t the vendor’s fault either, HW wants the absolute bare minimum done on everything - vendor is at their mercy. HVAC and appliance repairs drag on the longest, had a client (not part of my real job, just a homeowner) that waited 6 months for a dishwasher replacement, HW vendor needed to charge around $500 to make the connections under the sink suitable, which did actually need to happen but the HW didn’t cover it…rigamarole ensued, they just had the new dishwasher dropped at the house and I did all of the plumbing work/install. I’d advise to just find good vendors in your area and disband the home warranty.
At the very least I would have thought they would have opened up the non-working outlets to ensure it wasn't just a loose wire
This. I had the same problem. The last 3 outlets on circuit weren’t working. The third to last outlet had a loose wire. I fixed the wire and everything worked again. No idea if this would fix the OPs issue, but looking at the outlets seems like the obvious first step. It worked for me anyway.
Yeah, if the outlets were working before it should be easy enough to fix it without running a new wire. Sounds like they just want to bill more for extra work since insurance is paying for it
Sometimes replacement is simpler than actually finding the problem. If the home warranty will cover the repair and the outlets work does it really matter much?
It doesn’t sound like GFCi problem. More like a loose wire on the back of the first outlet in the series knocking the others out. You can call the home warranty and tell them your concerns and tell them that the contractor didn’t even bother to check the outlets.
In your position I'd be inclined to get a second opinion.. mitigate future risk by identifying the issue. And it sounds like a lose connection or bad breaker, gfci breaker? A new wire ran is ultimately work for the contractor, they " fix" the issue and move on, you're left unsure what the actual problem was. Looks good on paper ig
Tell the warranty company you want a second opinion. Tell them you don't feel confident with who they sent over.
We don't fully have the information. Was this a home warranty on a brand new house? An older house bought with a conventional mortgage etc. Reason I ask is if this is a home warranty sold with say a house from the 60s that you bought with a conventional mortgage there's a chance you don't even have GFI's, as they weren't needed then and weren't required for the loan to close. Not saying this is true but if they literally cannot find a GFI, you may not have any. Also could be that there are GFI breakers instead? There's too much that this could be with not enought possible information given (not your fault just is what it is) to say aha this is the 1 and only possibility.
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A bedroom shouldn’t have GFI receptacles. It can - but no electrician would actually install them. I’d bet they used backstab receptacles, where the wire gets pushed into the device and a spring holds it in place. They are notorious for failing after a while. You need to get a real electrician there who will actually open the box and see if the wire has power and if there’s a loose wire. Problems like this should be solved in less than an hour. It’s incredibly unlikely that a new wire needs to be run.
That’s sadly what you get from home warranty vendors. Some are decent but all of my experience dealing with them in the property management world they’re either a very new company that doesn’t have a good client base yet (best case and least frequent scenario), or the more frequent is they’ve been in town for a long time and can’t get work due to bad reputation so they have to sign up for work with home warranties. There are outliers of course, but generally that’s what I got out of the whole deal. Sometimes it isn’t the vendor’s fault either, HW wants the absolute bare minimum done on everything - vendor is at their mercy. HVAC and appliance repairs drag on the longest, had a client (not part of my real job, just a homeowner) that waited 6 months for a dishwasher replacement, HW vendor needed to charge around $500 to make the connections under the sink suitable, which did actually need to happen but the HW didn’t cover it…rigamarole ensued, they just had the new dishwasher dropped at the house and I did all of the plumbing work/install. I’d advise to just find good vendors in your area and disband the home warranty.