Electrical – Tracing elctrical outlets that suddenly stopped working.

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Last fall an outdoor outlet and an outlet in my garage worked just fine.
However this spring neither of them work.
Any thoughts on how I can go about researching or identifying the problem?
I checked the circuit breaker and nothing is tripped, neither have a reset button on them.

Just not sure where to start with this.

I read some other posts, and these all turned out to be light switches that one didn't know about or a bad connection. I have already reviewed the connections at both, I plugged a vacuum cleaner into both and walked around turn on light switches etc.

The two outlets are about 20 feet apart, one outside the other in the garage so they may or may not be on the same line, I am assuming right now they are because they both stopped working.

Best Answer

Bryce mentioned the answer. Go to your downstairs bathroom and hit the 'reset' button on the outlet. Betcha this fixes it.