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OUTLET NOT WORKING BUT BREAKER STILL ON ? Read on!
Often times we only have a short amount of time to get electrical problems fixed and this can often lead to making incorrect or irrational decisions in troubleshooting. I recently had a situation where the house vacuum was plugged into a hall outlet and it all the sudden stopped working. I soon discovered it made a bunch of other light switches, outlets, and overhead bedroom lights stop working as well. I immediately checked the breaker panel and the breaker had not been switched off! I thought "Well if it's not the breaker than it's got to be a GFI". I then checked all the GFI's in the house and all of them were just fine. I turned off the switch and turned it back on to see if that helped the problem and it resulted in no progress. I then turned the breaker back off and I took apart a couple on non-working light switches and outlets. All of them looked good from the outside but I even started changing them out for brand new ones. Pretty soon I'd forgotten which outlets I'd changed out and which ones I hadn't which ended up costing me a bunch of time.

After 3 or 4 hours of no luck then next day I took a step back and thought about what was actually going on. I knew it had to be something simple that I was just overlooking. I was correct. Since the breaker was on and a few lights on the circuit turned off and on when flipping the breaker, this eliminated the breaker as being a problem. Once I knew the breaker was good I took a small piece of tape and marked which lights and outlets on the circuit were working. After process of elimination I traced out the last outlet BEFORE the one that wasn't working and landed on an outlet I THOUGHT I had already changed out. Not the case. This is why it's important to mark which ones work and which ones don't so you don't overlook one. Upon removing and replacing the next outlet "upstream" form the one that wasn't working, this cured the problem!! When I did remove culprit outlet I noticed one of the connections where the white wire got inserted into the back of the outlet it came out with ease. This was the problem. I don't recommend using the hole in the back of the outlet, rather I recommend using the connection point that requires the use of a Phillips head fastener.

If I would have stopped and taken a minute to think about what was going on and how to logically and methodically trace out the problem, things would have gone a lot quicker. While I recommend hiring a certified electrician to perform all of your electrical work, below are some of examples of how I have installed and repaired various electrical outlets etc.

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