no, this is not for decorative purposes.
in the house and basement, i have mostly white walls and use ivory colored switches, receptacles and wall plates.
in the garage, all the receptacles will be the normal duplex style. each circuit, there are two, when the wires actually enter the garage pass through a 20A faceless GFCI (with both a red and green light), and all the duplex outlets in the garage are on the LOAD side, so GFCI protected. Code requires that we put that little tiny paper sticker on each wall plate that says "GFCI protected", but this will be a garage and workshop so i'm looking for something a little more robust. Leviton offers many wallplates that are thermally stamped (branded) with terms like "computer only", "isolated ground", etc. but none for "GFCI" in a duplex wallplate. so, if this were your garage, what would you do? here are some choices that i've come up with for my scenario
1) use the same ivory outlets and wallplates as inside and use a big label or sharpie to mark the wall plate as GFCI.
2) use the same ivory outlet but use a different color wallplate - although not sure what color would "denote" GFCI protection. the labels that i would use would be black on a white tape, so they'd standout against any color wallplate.
3) use a matched outlet and wallplate, but of a different color than ivory. and use the same label tape to tag the wallplate. this provides a little more color consistency than #2.
if this was your garage, how would you go about it?
Thanks in advance
BeekerC
in the house and basement, i have mostly white walls and use ivory colored switches, receptacles and wall plates.
in the garage, all the receptacles will be the normal duplex style. each circuit, there are two, when the wires actually enter the garage pass through a 20A faceless GFCI (with both a red and green light), and all the duplex outlets in the garage are on the LOAD side, so GFCI protected. Code requires that we put that little tiny paper sticker on each wall plate that says "GFCI protected", but this will be a garage and workshop so i'm looking for something a little more robust. Leviton offers many wallplates that are thermally stamped (branded) with terms like "computer only", "isolated ground", etc. but none for "GFCI" in a duplex wallplate. so, if this were your garage, what would you do? here are some choices that i've come up with for my scenario
1) use the same ivory outlets and wallplates as inside and use a big label or sharpie to mark the wall plate as GFCI.
2) use the same ivory outlet but use a different color wallplate - although not sure what color would "denote" GFCI protection. the labels that i would use would be black on a white tape, so they'd standout against any color wallplate.
3) use a matched outlet and wallplate, but of a different color than ivory. and use the same label tape to tag the wallplate. this provides a little more color consistency than #2.
if this was your garage, how would you go about it?
Thanks in advance
BeekerC