LaszloPhotographer

I had the same problem as the poster: dead outlet on a GFI circuit. It happened to be an outlet in the master bath. The nearest GFI was in the guest bath but it had never tripped and did not seem to affect the master bath outlets at all. So I called in my "fix anything handyman." After checking various things, he took the cover off the master bath outlet. Lo! The hot wire had separated from the outlet fixture. That's where the circuit break was. It took fifteen years for that to happen but it was clearly the result of the wire not having been properly tightened when the house was built. As it turns out, the guest bath GFI does also control the master bath. Moral of the story: when the obvious answers are wrong, dig deeper. Don't assume everybody did their job correctly. Assume someone screwed up.