Tamper-resistant outlets have been required in nearly every room of new California homes since 2008, and if your Los Angeles home was built or last rewired before that year, there’s a genuinely good chance some or all of your outlets don’t have this built-in child safety feature yet, even if the rest of the home’s
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How many outlets a room needs isn’t a matter of personal preference or guesswork; it’s spelled out clearly in the National Electrical Code, which requires that no point along a wall be more than 6 feet from a receptacle, effectively spacing outlets no more than 12 feet apart along any continuous wall. The 6-foot, 12-foot
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Most homeowners never think about where GFCI outlets are required until an inspector, an insurance adjuster, or a home sale flags the ones that are missing. In Ojai and across Ventura County, that gap shows up often in homes built before the mid-2000s, when the National Electrical Code (NEC) still only required ground fault protection
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