And you know for sure this was you? I understand water could maybe get behind it, linger and connect but you said you washed it 3 weeks ago and he called yesterday saying this event just happened?
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I don’t know for sure, I told him it could of been a coincidence. It looked like something could of been loose in there and had been arcing and burnt up, who knows but I was the only one thats been there. He wasn’t upset just happy it got fixed whether it was from me or not. Did give me a scare and made me think.
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Thats a faulty gfi , the gfi should of tripped the second it saw water. That being said you should always ,always tape.
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The GFI only protects the front half of the outlet: basically any cord or device plugged into the receptacle. It does nothing for the wires that remain live behind the outlet.
This is why they make GFCI & AFCI breakers. So the whole circuit will trip as soon as something isn’t quite right.
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I’ve had 7 in the last two years do the exact same thing. The last one was on a newer home with fancy covers, and I even taped it off. Every one of them burned up and then you have to clean all the black soot out of the box and the wires when you replace it. It seems silly but this is how they work. It only trips if something connected to it goes wrong.
Had another electrical related issue recently, we were finishing a house wash and we were hitting the front, I noticed someone turned the porch light off, I thought none of it, 2 minutes later homeowner comes out saying her kitchen lights won’t turn on, I thought “well crap”, I told her to wait until the outside of the house dries and check the breaker box for any tripped breaker. Sure enough, there was a 15a tripped which I assume the shared kitchen lights and porch light, it only needed to be reset.
, yes, most light fixtures are mounted and the wires are wirenutted and taped at best, then shoved into hole. so, no telling which could catch some water.
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