Weird Bathroom

17 years ago

The kid found herself a new place to live. It's an older apartment building but it's quiet, clean, and in a good neighborhood. The problem is in the bathroom. Standing at the sink, to the left is the toilet, and then the ONLY receptacle. Besides cords draping over the toilet, the mirror is sufficiently distant from the receptacle to make it hard to see when drying, curling, and whatever young girls do to make themselves attractive in the morning. Obviously adding a new receptacle isn't an option (and one the owner is unlikely to pay for). So I'm looking for some suggestions to get power a little closer to the countertop.

What I'm thinking is to replace receptacle with a GFI (it's not GFI now) and then mounting one of those power strips to the side of the vanity, running the cord behind the toilet along the baseboard.

Any problems with that plan?

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joefixit2
17 years ago
Mike,
Check to see if the recep is on a GFCI breaker before you change it to a GFCI recep.

Technically if this is a rental, you should not be doing any of the electrical work yourself.

That being said, if it was my daughter, I would do exactly as you described.
joed
17 years ago
Make sure the cord is at least #14 wire. A cord designed for an AC would be ideal for this. You don't want an under size cord for use with hair dryers.
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mike_kaiser_gw
Original Author
17 years ago
Make sure the cord is at least #14 wire. A cord designed for an AC would be ideal for this. You don't want an under size cord for use with hair dryers.

Good suggestion, I was kind of thinking the same thing but I thought a power strip would work better. I know she has a electric toothbrush that should be plugged in all the time and curling irons need some time to warm up.

I haven't looked but I bet it's a 15 amp circuit shared with goodness knows what else.
itsunclebill
17 years ago
Mike, they have heavy duty power strips with #14 and #12 wire rather than the common #16 stuff. Availability varies at big boxes. I think I saw a Plug Mold strip with the cord and all the hardware at Homer's