I would like to go back in time and ask the people who wired my house a few questions:
1. Why do I have two double gang switch boxes that are each fed by two different breakers?
2. Why does one circuit feed two outlets in the living room and the GFCI for the microwave in the kitchen, yet another circuit feeds two more outlets in the living room?
3. Why is the panel labeling complete gibberish?
I spent much more time today than I should have replacing four outlets in the living room because I couldn't find the breakers that fed them. I have one more outlet to replace out there, and yet again I'll have to play breaker roulette to get it shut off.
I do better with pictures. Here's what I'm dealing with.
We have this gun-shaped room. (We live in Idaho; every house has a gun-shaped room.) Red shows outlets on one circuit, green another, and yellow yet another. The purple represents two outlets for which I have yet to identify a breaker and an overhead light, also whose breaker is unidentified at the moment. I have to find the purple circuit so I can replace one of the outlets, which is so old and worn out it won't hold a plug anymore.
Problem is the other purple outlet I replaced previously, but I didn't mark down which breaker it was. I'm now making a complex diagram, of which this picture will be a part.
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