Bathroom GFCI not working
I have a gfci in my bathroom that does not work , I have changed it , it is the last one that is connected to the other baths., it is wire differently than the others, The hot is connected to the hot terminal, the white is capped with a wire nut, the ground is wired together with a white that goes to the white terminal screw and the ground goes to the ground screw, any ideas ?
Yes, this was wired by somebody that didn’t know what they were doing.
What you have is clearly wrong and probably dangerous. Why somebody did this is a good question that can only be answered by looking at other wiring on the circuit. Perhaps somebody was trying to get a ground where there wasn’t one. Perhaps somebody was trying to use the grounding wire as a conductor when they fell one wire short (a very, very bad idea).
The first thing I’d try is to change the wiring back to the normal way, with the black wire to the “line hot”, the white wire to the “line white” and the grounding wire to the grounding screw.
But I’d be very suspicious of the wiring, not just here but perhaps in the whole house. If the person who did this has been messing with other wiring in your house, you could have big trouble. You might consider getting an electrician in to evaluate the safety of your wiring.
