Greetings all.
I recently downsized and purchased a condo that was built in the 70's.
Upon occupancy inspection my 2 bathroom GFI's failed, one in each bath.
One of them I was able to run a ground to the mounting box and it was fixed.
The other one is the issue....
The bathroom has nice marble walls. There is a wall switch controlling a cabinet light and exhaust-fan, there is also a GFI outlet next to the sink which fails the little plug-in tester, showing an open ground.
There are 2 loose wires feeding the outlet through the side of the metal box and no conduit. The metal box flops completely loose inside the wall cavity...it is not mounted to anything holding it in place except from the tension of the cover plate only!
When I run a ground to the box in the wall where the GFI is located, naturally nothing happens. When I run it over to the metal box where the switch is located, the tester indicates a proper ground is in place.
The wall GFI outlet has red+white wires.
The light and fan outlet has white+blue wires.
All 3 of those colors are in the switch box.
I thought about pulling the red+white combo back into the switch box and adding a green ground, however, when I pull either end of the wires I get zero movement at the other end.
I am thinking maybe there was a box elsewhere in the wall years ago that got marble covered, this is the reason for the wires not moving when pulled.
I need an idea how to make this pass inspection.
Thanks in advance
Dean
I recently downsized and purchased a condo that was built in the 70's.
Upon occupancy inspection my 2 bathroom GFI's failed, one in each bath.
One of them I was able to run a ground to the mounting box and it was fixed.
The other one is the issue....
The bathroom has nice marble walls. There is a wall switch controlling a cabinet light and exhaust-fan, there is also a GFI outlet next to the sink which fails the little plug-in tester, showing an open ground.
There are 2 loose wires feeding the outlet through the side of the metal box and no conduit. The metal box flops completely loose inside the wall cavity...it is not mounted to anything holding it in place except from the tension of the cover plate only!
When I run a ground to the box in the wall where the GFI is located, naturally nothing happens. When I run it over to the metal box where the switch is located, the tester indicates a proper ground is in place.
The wall GFI outlet has red+white wires.
The light and fan outlet has white+blue wires.
All 3 of those colors are in the switch box.
I thought about pulling the red+white combo back into the switch box and adding a green ground, however, when I pull either end of the wires I get zero movement at the other end.
I am thinking maybe there was a box elsewhere in the wall years ago that got marble covered, this is the reason for the wires not moving when pulled.
I need an idea how to make this pass inspection.
Thanks in advance
Dean
