Yesterday was a nice day and we worked on our outside Christmas lights. In the front of the house I mounted an outlet in the ceiling that comes on and off with the porch light and I unscrew the porch light and plug the lights into the outlet and have switching. Works great.
On the side and back of the house I added lower outlets for summer time use and also winter Christmas lights. They were always a pain to go out and plug in when it was cold. It dawned on me last night that when I put those outlets in I placed a GFCI outlet at each location inside and then piggy backed and outside outlet on the opposite side. I like having the GFCI inside and out of the weather even with the weather-proof boxes.
I thought all I have to do is go over and test my GFCI and the lights will go off and to turn them on the next night reset it. No more suiting up for me. Maybe others do this I don’t know, but it just came to me so I thought I would pass on the idea.
On the side and back of the house I added lower outlets for summer time use and also winter Christmas lights. They were always a pain to go out and plug in when it was cold. It dawned on me last night that when I put those outlets in I placed a GFCI outlet at each location inside and then piggy backed and outside outlet on the opposite side. I like having the GFCI inside and out of the weather even with the weather-proof boxes.
I thought all I have to do is go over and test my GFCI and the lights will go off and to turn them on the next night reset it. No more suiting up for me. Maybe others do this I don’t know, but it just came to me so I thought I would pass on the idea.