TriX wrote:
Yep, to save money, builders often use a single GFCI outlet in either the kitchen, bathroom, basement, garage or outdoors, and if it trips (usually due to moisture) all the other outlets hooked to it are off. Look in all those places until you find the GFCI outlet (it will usually have a light indicating it’s tripped) and reset it.
The requirement is to have the FIRST outlet in the series that is required to be ground fault protected to be the GFCI outlet, all other outlets down current are then GFI protected. Therefore, only one outlet per room with water outlets needs to be GFCI protected. It's not a short cut by the builder.