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Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage #13832422 01/05/21 03:05 AM
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We plan to move our 10 year old refrigerator to the garage but the wall it is going on only has a GFCI outlet. I don’t want the GFCI outlet to be tripped and not realize it for a few days. How much should I expect to pay a licensed electrician to put a non-GFCI outlet in the garage? I can patch up the sheetrock and paint if necessary. The house is in Flower Mound and was built in 2000.

Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832448 01/05/21 03:20 AM
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Pretty easy to swap a plug out, just flip the breaker, take the cover plate off, and remove and reinstall the wires as shown on the little paper diagram in the new plugs box.


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Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832457 01/05/21 03:30 AM
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If you can put the fridge in front of the outlet, the easiest and cheapest thing to do would be just swap that GFCI out to a standard outlet. If your local code allows, and most do if the non-GFCI outlet behind a fridge/freezer.

Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832458 01/05/21 03:32 AM
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I paid 95 bucks for a real electrician to put an outlet and light socket in a shed that sits about 4 feet from my house.

Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832461 01/05/21 03:37 AM
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Easy to do yourself but if hiring out I’d say a minimum trip charge of about $75-$100.

Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832479 01/05/21 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by H.Town_paddler
Easy to do yourself but if hiring out I’d say a minimum trip charge of about $75-$100.


Just tap into the line side.. add new outlet....freezer won't trip. Good to go


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Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832515 01/05/21 06:21 AM
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Is there an open space in your service panel? Have a new non gfci circuit added dedicated to a fridge plug. There is a good chance that gfci in the garage is going to other plugs down the circuit that won’t be protected if that plug is removed.

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you can get an old work box for 2 plugs, wire the new plug straight to the circuit wire then run wires to the gfci plug, fridge will be ahead of the gfci.

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Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: PowerLizard] #13832740 01/05/21 02:19 PM
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Trust me on this...once you have one refrigerator in the garage you will want another, and/or a deep freeze.
We had a 4 plug non GFCI outlet put on the wall (didn't mess with putting it flush in the wall) ran the wire through conduit over to the breaker box and had a new breaker installed just for that outlet.
We now have two over/under refrigerator freezers, a stand up deep freeze and a 75 bottle wine storage unit lined up on that wall and pluged in that outlet.

Pay someone to do it and do it right.

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Originally Posted by PaulGrapevine
Is there an open space in your service panel? Have a new non gfci circuit added dedicated to a fridge plug. There is a good chance that gfci in the garage is going to other plugs down the circuit that won’t be protected if that plug is removed.


This Is what I have been told. My electrician buddy is going to help me add a dedicated breaker and plug for the fridge and the deep freezer in our garage. Then add another dedicated breaker and run about 3-4 more plugs over to my work area.

Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: hopalong] #13832762 01/05/21 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by hopalong
you can get an old work box for 2 plugs, wire the new plug straight to the circuit wire then run wires to the gfci plug, fridge will be ahead of the gfci.

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This is what i did, so far so good


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I used to keep a cheap nightstand lamp on top of my fridge in the garage that was always turned on. If the lamp was ever out it had to be one of two things: GFCI had tripped or bulb was out. 99% of the time the plug had tripped.

After a few consistent trips of the GFCI, I replaced the GFCI breaker with a newer one. It helped a little - I think. But I then moved out the older fridge and replaced with a new up to date energy efficient and larger unit. Since then I've never tripped the GFCI and my current set up I have the fridge plugged into an extension cord over to the GFCI plug.


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Buy a refrigerator temperature alarm. Ebay, $10.

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Originally Posted by Holzer
I used to keep a cheap nightstand lamp on top of my fridge in the garage that was always turned on. If the lamp was ever out it had to be one of two things: GFCI had tripped or bulb was out. 99% of the time the plug had tripped.

After a few consistent trips of the GFCI, I replaced the GFCI breaker with a newer one. It helped a little - I think. But I then moved out the older fridge and replaced with a new up to date energy efficient and larger unit. Since then I've never tripped the GFCI and my current set up I have the fridge plugged into an extension cord over to the GFCI plug.



older reefers will trip a gfci when the compressor kicks in if there are other things pulling a load at the same time, lots of amps to kick start it.


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Re: Adding a Power Outlet in the Garage [Re: hopalong] #13832847 01/05/21 03:22 PM
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I used to keep a cheap nightstand lamp on top of my fridge in the garage that was always turned on. If the lamp was ever out it had to be one of two things: GFCI had tripped or bulb was out. 99% of the time the plug had tripped.

After a few consistent trips of the GFCI, I replaced the GFCI breaker with a newer one. It helped a little - I think. But I then moved out the older fridge and replaced with a new up to date energy efficient and larger unit. Since then I've never tripped the GFCI and my current set up I have the fridge plugged into an extension cord over to the GFCI plug.



older reefers will trip a gfci when the compressor kicks in if there are other things pulling a load at the same time, lots of amps to kick start it.


Gfi don't trip on high amperage, they trip on ANY difference in the amps of the 2 wires.

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