Dedicated Circuts for Kitchen and Bathrooms
I’m in the middle of a total remodel and I’d like to use the opportunity to clean up the messy wiring in the house while the walls are open. Right now there is no rhyme or reason to what is on each circut. Turn off a breaker and you lose 3 lights, an outlet here, outlet there and the garage door won’t open… Very stupid.
Anyways, Most of it is simple. But I have a few questions about kitchens and bathrooms.
My understanding is that there are two ways of doing the bathrooms. 1) Each bathroom gets it’s own 20amp circut for everything (outlets, lighting, fan). or 2) All the bathroom outlets in the house go on one 20amp circut, and the lighting/fan can be on a circut from a different room(s).
In the kitchen, what needs it’s own circut? Better yet, what SHOULD have it’s own circut. If I read my NEC code book correctly, the disposall and dishwasher should each have their own circut. What about the refridgerator and an over-the-stove microwave? The stove is gas, so that’s not a problem.
Can the remaining outlets over the kitchen counter be on a circut with the outlets from a different room? or should they be seperate?
Each bathroom requires a separate 20A circuit. Kitchen countertop outlets require 2 20A circuits, lighting separate but can be other house circuits. Separate circuit for microwave, 1 for dishwashers/disposal, but they should be separate(local code rules), frig is not as big a problem as they used to be, much less a power monster than they once were.
