Quote Originally Posted by Mike Henderson View Post
Tract houses often use the GFCI in the bathroom to protect the outlets in the garage. Personally, I think that's miserable because if you trip it, you can't hear the click of it tripping and the first time it happens, it takes you a while to figure out what happened.

They do that to save a few $ I guess.

Mike
You're certainly right about that. If I have a circuit that suddenly goes dead, the first step is to check all the GFCIs that I know about. Today I'd wouldn't be surprised if the extra wire required to daisy chain GFCIs cost more than an additional CGFI or two.