I have two bathrooms on opposite sides (both upstairs) of the house that are not working. Neither are GFI. An outlet tester shows voltage but when an appliance is plugged in, nothing. An outlet tester shows "reverse polarity" but my experience with these testers is that it may be a false reading and may be actually a broken neutral. I checked all the wiring and the wires are proper.
I have looked everywhere in the house for GFI's that might control this and found one in the garage but I'm not sure it's tied into the bathrooms (load and line wires are correct on those also). But perhaps it is. I even disconnected this GFI and temporarily pigtailed the hot and neutrals and still nothing upstairs. The GFI in the garage is random but I've seen a GFI here in other houses that control the bathrooms.
I've checked the wiring on the two bathroom outlets and everything looks OK. I've also opened a few outlets outside the bathrooms for a loose neutral and nothing. The only thing I haven't done is to check the neutral pigtails in both outlets but they'll looked good to me.
I'm stumped.
How do I diagnose this problem?
I have looked everywhere in the house for GFI's that might control this and found one in the garage but I'm not sure it's tied into the bathrooms (load and line wires are correct on those also). But perhaps it is. I even disconnected this GFI and temporarily pigtailed the hot and neutrals and still nothing upstairs. The GFI in the garage is random but I've seen a GFI here in other houses that control the bathrooms.
I've checked the wiring on the two bathroom outlets and everything looks OK. I've also opened a few outlets outside the bathrooms for a loose neutral and nothing. The only thing I haven't done is to check the neutral pigtails in both outlets but they'll looked good to me.
I'm stumped.
How do I diagnose this problem?