I just plugged in a 4.1 amp vacuum on one of my 2nd floor outlets, turned it on and all it did was make this noise as if it had just been turned off and everything was "spinning down." I tried plugging it in on the 1st floor and the vacuum worked fine. I went back upstairs to that outlet and the outlet isn't working. So I went into the 2nd floor master bathroom and pressed the GFCI reset button with no luck. So I went and tested a few more outlets and the two 2nd floor bathrooms aren't getting any electricity. I pressed the reset button two more times but nothing happened. I've had the outlet in the one bathroom stop working before and was fixed by pressing the GFCI reset button. But I've never had the lights actually go out in the bathrooms. So I'm not sure if this is something I need to call an electrician for. Is there something I can do at the breaker box to see if this is just a fluke? I don't know if this matters but the electrical wiring in my house is "piggybacked", whatever that means.
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13 years ago