Help Fuse blown can’t find the switch

[beebri]

Solved, it was a gfci outlet hidden behind a big piece of furniture! Thanks for everyone’s help!
Hi, so I’m in a bit of a pickle, only been in this house for 4 months but the fuse to the garage blew, but the switch is not in the main box in the house. (Garage is attached but no access from inside the house, and the house is older) would the fuse box be inside the garage? We can’t check since unfortunately with the power shut off our keys are locked inside the garage. We have a number lock on the house and kept the spare keys in our car and in the garage not thinking the fuse blown would make the garage inaccessible. Any suggestions? I’d hate to call a locksmith to find out we don’t have a fuse in the garage. Thanks!

 

[OccupantRJ]

Look on youtube for tricks to enter a garage door. If there is a manual pull cord release you might get lucky.

 

[Copymutt]

Dead bolt on the man door? Jimmy a window? As mentioned try to snake in a stick to trip the OH door.

 

[sparky 1971]

It's probably not going to be a tripped breaker or blown fuse. But if what you are calling blown fuses are actually breakers, turn all of the single pole's off and back on. Sometimes the tripped position is hard to see. When that doesn't work, you're going to have to get in the garage somehow. my bet is on a tripped GFCI in the garage or a junk door opener.

 

[steves_001]

When you do get in add one of these:

Door lock

 

[gtae07]

my bet is on a tripped GFCI in the garage or a junk door opener.

That GFCI could be somewhere else entirely. All the outlets on the outside of our house are connected to a GFCI outlet in the garage, but at my parents' house their garage outlets were tied to a GFCI in a random bathroom.

 

[sparky 1971]

That GFCI could be somewhere else entirely. All the outlets on the outside of our house are connected to a GFCI outlet in the garage, but at my parents' house their garage outlets were tied to a GFCI in a random bathroom.

It could be somewhere else, but it could very well be in the garage. It might not be a tripped GFCI at all. The door opener could be shot, the cord might have come unplugged, the door opener receptacle could be back stabbed and one of the wires has a bad connection, there could be a bad splice somewhere, a breaker might have gone bad, but isn't tripped, maybe the battery in the remote has gone dead.

There are all kinds of possibilities, but since the garage is attached, but has no access from the house and he already said the house is older (than the garage), I going to take a stab at it and say that the garage was built after the house and has it's own circuit, which would put the GFCI in the garage if it has one at all.

 

[Shiftless]

Hopefully the OP has it figured out or has called a locksmith. They started a new account, described the problem and hasn’t been seen since a time before the first of 6 thoughtful responses.

 

[kbuhagiar]

They started a new account, described the problem and hasn’t been seen since a time before the first of 6 thoughtful responses.

Well, that's par for the course on here lately...lots of SASS (Short Attention Span Syndrome) these days.

 

[Wrench97]

Hopefully the OP has it figured out or has called a locksmith. They started a new account, described the problem and hasn’t been seen since a time before the first of 6 thoughtful responses.

They posted at 9:05 this morning probably still trying to get in....................................

 

[MovingAlong]

Where's your meter? The panel box is often located closely to minimize the run...

And if you're in CA or AZ, it (the panel box) may be on an outside wall.

 

[Shiftless]

They posted at 9:05 this morning probably still trying to get in....................................

Or 6:05 if they are on the west coast…still MIA

 

[beebri]

I am back now didn’t realize people responded so quickly! Thanks for all the suggestions I’m going to see if I look around and see if I can open a window, they seem to be painted over, also I’m in UT I’d that’s relevant

 

[beebri]

Ok I’m in! But as I thought no gfci outlets in the garage, we have an irrigation system could that have a breaker?

 

[beebri]

Ok I’m in! But I thought no gfci outlets in the garage, we have an irrigationg system could that have a breaker?

 

[Copymutt]

Congrats. Re: irrigation? Are we talking zoned sprinklers, based on the age of your home those would be tied into a circuit someplace. If pump,powered flood irrigation, should have its own GFI breaker, but sounds like it won’t. Should be a sub panel or at least a shut off box someplace in the garage feed. Check that w/ a volt meter.

 

[Wrench97]

Is there a breaker panel in the garage?

 

[beebri]

Nope no panel in sight, and looking at the irrigation system it actually was plugged into an outlet. Also I flipped all breakers and then turned them back on and nothing.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

use your multimeter to check if is there power at the GDO receptacle

 

[loganb]

You may have a GFCI outlet that power was pulled from to feed the garage. Check all bathrooms, kitchens, basement if you have one etc don't stop at ones that are "close". Push the Reset button on them and see if you hear one click and the LED light change color or go off. Could also be a GFCI on an outdoor outlet that is downstream feeding the garage. But I'm guessing it's the garage door opener/lights that are dead, so wouldn't be surprised if an upstairs outlet could be feeding them

 

[Jim greengo]

If you don't have a meter,try plugging a radio or light in to where the opener is plugged in.

 

[Wrench97]

Or lacking a multi meter plug in a lamp to the outlet.

 

[micromind]

Where's your meter? The panel box is often located closely to minimize the run...

And if you're in CA or AZ, it (the panel box) may be on an outside wall.

Most houses built in the last 20 years in the Reno NV area will have an all-in-one on the side of the garage.

 

[micromind]

use your multimeter to check if is there power at the GDO receptacle

Also, if you know how to use a meter, check for voltage between both slots and each slot to ground. If nothing then check for continuity between the longer slot and ground. If it's open, almost certainly there's a tripped GFI somewhere. If it shows continuity, then most likely the hot is broken somewhere.

 

[beebri]

use your multimeter to check if is there power at the GDO receptacle

It’s plugged into an outlet

 

[Shiftless]

Yes,
Verify with a lamp or something else that there is power to the outlet receptacle where the garage door opener is plugged in.

Why? That will narrow the problem to either your house electrical or a failed motor or other problem in your garage door opener

 

[beebri]

We found the culprit hidden outlet behind furniture, thanks everyone!

 

[sparky 1971]

We found the culprit hidden outlet behind furniture, thanks everyone!

Is it a GFCI installed in a location that would have been a receptacle in the original house? Probably is and that's where the cheap ******* that built the garage picked up the power for it instead of running a new circuit(s).