I Don't Have Any Hot Water Coming Into My Sink In My Bathroom.....

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. There is a good chance one bathroom outlet protects the other bathroom outlet.

Especially if the rooms are back to back. One GFCI can protect other outlets “downstream” in say a garage or group of outlets on a kitchen backsplash or back to back bathrooms. The outlets are expensive at $12-15 dollars (versus $2 dollars) so builders daisy chain them.

One way to tell is plug a radio in to the other bathroom outlet and trip the GFCI. It should turn off the radio.

Those little buttons can be hard to reset as they are small and give a little resistance. If you have finger nails they are easier. I use something plastic like the end of a bic pen to reset the button. The buttons trip rather easily as they are set on a hair trigger. Resetting requires a bit of push til it clicks on.

You should test the buttons periodically anyway as they can get gunk in them that prevents the safety mechanism from tripping.

The outlet that is protected by another GFCI outlet is supposed to have a little sticker applied that says something like “this outlet GFCI protected” but no one ever uses those stickers that come with the outlet. The stickers get tossed in the trash.

The stickers come in handy when you sell so some home inspector doesn’t ding you for an unprotected outlet. Or if the outlet mysteriously stops working - you check the circuit breaker and can’t figure out why your hair dryer outlet doesn’t work. So you pay an electrician $150 dollars to reset the GFCI in the other bathroom you never use.