SilentNoise
Member
Hey everyone. Typical long-time lurker here, but have something I wanted to bounce off the guys with more household electrical troubleshooting experience than I:
I own a townhouse with a single-attached garage. There's a line on one of the side walls with two outlets (the only two on that circuit) and now it's suddenly just gone dead. I hadn't used them for most of the winter, so it was a bit of a surprise when I went to use them a little while ago.
After checking the panel in the basement, the breaker wasn't popped, isn't dead, and there is power in that line leaving the panel, but the wires go up into the walls in the kitchen, go wherever they go, and don't emerge until about 6-feet before the first plug. I've also tested the plugs elsewhere in the garage, and they're still good as well. The place was only built in 2005, so we're not talking about old wiring, but obviously there's some kind of break in the line somewhere. In the meantime, I've turned that breaker off to avoid any possibility of the unthinkable.
So with all of that said, I've got questions:
- First of all, any idea what could cause something like this other than just complete randomness?
- Obviously I'm not ripping apart my kitchen to chase wires in the walls, so unless someone else has another option that I haven't considered, my thinking was that the best option is to just disconnect that existing line entirely and run a new one, correct? (doing this job with the way the place is built is incredibly simple)
Thanks
I own a townhouse with a single-attached garage. There's a line on one of the side walls with two outlets (the only two on that circuit) and now it's suddenly just gone dead. I hadn't used them for most of the winter, so it was a bit of a surprise when I went to use them a little while ago.
After checking the panel in the basement, the breaker wasn't popped, isn't dead, and there is power in that line leaving the panel, but the wires go up into the walls in the kitchen, go wherever they go, and don't emerge until about 6-feet before the first plug. I've also tested the plugs elsewhere in the garage, and they're still good as well. The place was only built in 2005, so we're not talking about old wiring, but obviously there's some kind of break in the line somewhere. In the meantime, I've turned that breaker off to avoid any possibility of the unthinkable.
So with all of that said, I've got questions:
- First of all, any idea what could cause something like this other than just complete randomness?
- Obviously I'm not ripping apart my kitchen to chase wires in the walls, so unless someone else has another option that I haven't considered, my thinking was that the best option is to just disconnect that existing line entirely and run a new one, correct? (doing this job with the way the place is built is incredibly simple)
Thanks