Thread: 3 bathrooms, 1 circuit?

This seems like a lot for a single 20 amp circuit....

Main level half bathroom - 1 outlet
Upper level guest bathroom - 2 sinks, one outlet next to each one
Master bathroom - 2 sinks, one outlet next to each one plus an additional outlet at a make-up 'station' vanity setup.

I know this has been discussed before but I coudn't find anything recent.

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Meets "minimum" code requirements.

Might not make "common sense" but there is nothing about using "common sense" in the code.

Thanks... the people that write the code obviously don't have teenage daughters

Originally Posted by Matt Fellman

Thanks... the people that write the code obviously don't have teenage daughters

Keep in mind the National Electrical Code is a MINIMUM requirement not an installation manual.
It's not the code making panels place to design the electrical system for a structure.

The design of the electrical system falls on the builder or the person footing the bill for the construction. Your situation was most likely designed by a builder/ owner who was cheap and wanted code minimum.

It's not uncommon to find three bathrooms, two exterior receptacles, and a garage receptacle on the same GFCI circuit. All that extra wire too save a few $$ on a few GFCI receptacles.

Originally Posted by David Argabright

It's not uncommon to find three bathrooms, two exterior receptacles, and a garage receptacle on the same GFCI circuit.

If it is a "newer" house, I believe it was the 1996 NEC when that changed, that should be really, really, really rare in finding the bathrooms on a circuit with those other receptacles.

Prior to that, yeah, they would put all the GFCI receptacles on one circuit and put a GFCI breaker in the panel or GFCI device at the closest receptacle on that circuit and then just wire away to wherever.