[Ktots]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Remember to look behind any shelving, refrigerator, or anything else up against the walls, I have seen GFCI receptacles covered by this stuff, and then people forgot the GFCI's were there. Also, if your home is less than 10 years old you may still be able to get the home plans from the building department, ours were 16 pages, with one of these showing all of the original wiring.

VTinker, Great idea to obtain the electrical plans. When you say building department, do you mean the Villages or the county? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I would really like to get the plans for our home.

OP, we had a problem on our last home with an outlet near our front door. Every time a piece of equipment was plugged in there, it tripped the circuit and we lost power on our lanai. That outlet was apparently ok, but during the course of having work done on the lanai, the contractor found a loose wire in one of the lanai outlets. Once that was fixed, no more problems.
Hope you are able to get yours fixed.

[marylouward]

We had the same thing happen too. GFI in the garage. We have three GFI’s in the garage so keep looking if the first one doesn’t work.

[remedythis@sbcglobal.net]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Are they GFI outlets?
Had a similar problem…it was the GFI circuit in the garage that went out…it controlled the outlets in the lanai too. See if the outlets are working in your garage.

You probably have arc fault breakers and like the GFI, though good from a safety point, they are junk. Breaker could have gone bad and/or make sure it was reset correctly. leave me a message of how to contact you and it won't cost anything. Happy to help.

[gail swanson]

You always give great advice! Thank you

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by mikreb

They should be GFCI outlets. Try resetting the control outlet that has a push button GFCI reset.

Often there are several outlets in a series that are GFCI outlets, but only the first one in the series needs the GFCI circuit breaker. Find that and press Reset hard, until it clicks. However, all the outlets on that circuit are supposed to have little stickers on them saying they are on a GFCI circuit, but sometimes those fall off.

[DonnaNi4os]

Check the GFIs in your garage. Recent rain has likely tripped.

[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by DONS999

For some reason both the outlet in both the lanai and birdcage stopped working. I put tester light on them and they are dead. All the circuit breakers are good and the lights and fan are good in the lanai . There is a separate single box in the back of the house and I am not sure what that is for.
I don't feel like spending $300 for an electrician to make a house call

So, have you found the problem? If not I can probably come over to take a look.

[tophcfa]

As others have stated, this happened to us as well and it was traced back to a tripped GFI outlet in the garage.

[mark100]

Originally Posted by mikreb

They should be GFCI outlets. Try resetting the control outlet that has a push button GFCI reset.

Check the GFI Switches in your garage. Ours is wired that way.

[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by Ktots

VTinker, Great idea to obtain the electrical plans. When you say building department, do you mean the Villages or the county? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I would really like to get the plans for our home.

OP, we had a problem on our last home with an outlet near our front door. Every time a piece of equipment was plugged in there, it tripped the circuit and we lost power on our lanai. That outlet was apparently ok, but during the course of having work done on the lanai, the contractor found a loose wire in one of the lanai outlets. Once that was fixed, no more problems.
Hope you are able to get yours fixed.

I got our plans from Sumter County building department the villages will not have this information. At the time (several years ago), they were able to email PDF copies of the plans, and these have saved me lots of time especially when submitting ARC approval forms.

[Ktots]

Thanks so much!