All Forum Posts by: Hamad Khan

I assume you replaced the gfci outlet first. Almost every outlet problem I’ve had is a gfci failure or a separate breaker for outlets. 

@Hamad Khan

How familiar are you with electrical? Don't mess with something that can kill you unless you are confident you are doing it safely. When you checked voltage at the breaker, you took the cover off of the panel and measured from the downstream side of the breaker to neutral or ground?

First I'd check voltage from hot to ground and hot to neutral at all the outlets. You should get 120 ish for each one. If you don't get voltage from hot to neutral or hot to ground, whichever one does not give you voltage has a break in the circuit on it's return path to the panel. If neither neutral or ground shows voltage to hot, then your problem is most likely in the hot wire which is the one that runs through the breakers.

Ten outlets in 3 different rooms seems like a lot of for just one breaker to be the issue. Even a bad breaker with voltage on the downstream side won't cause outlets not to work. My guess is that you lost continuity where a bunch of neutrals come together in a box somewhere in the house. Look from the attic for where the wires run from the affected rooms and see if they dive into a common junction box somewhere in the house, then pull that plate and check that all the neutrals are tied together. My guess is you'll find some lose neutrals. If any work has been done recently, it might be a shortcut to start there.

laminate or LVP will work as long as there's not high spots. We've smoothed floors some with a belt sander in the past. The laminate goes over a thin foam layer so it's fairly forgiving and strong enough to bridge slight changes in the subfloor.

I haven't used either product. However, I've looked at them both in the store. I wasn't impressed with the Allure but a flooring salesperson who's been there a long time said it's pretty popular with landlords. Wasn't enough to make me buy it. The biggest issue I see with it is that it would require a pretty smooth floor and many of our properties don't have that and I don't want to spend the time or money using leveling compound or an additional layer of underlayment.

@Hammad Arif, it has a great commercial warranty. But is really thin, Home Depot’s life proof is much better quality and price.