(LIFE SAFETY WARNING! [Disclaimer]
Electricity is dangerous!
You can be injured or killed!
Improper installations can cause fire, injury and death!
Should you be doing this yourself?)
GFI receptacles are now installed on what is known as a small appliance branch circuit
Yours is old or an add-on.
If the power for the receptacle comes from the switch box directly then you can make it work all the time by moving the hot wire feeding the GFI from the 'load' side of the switch to the 'hot' - permanently live - side of the switch.
Remember that you only put one wire under a screw, so you will have to make up or change splices. [wirenut connections]
If you aren't up to this, get an electrician.
<><><> Actually, the most likely situation is that you have a receptacle under a light over the sink at the other side of the room from the switch.
They did this to get a receptacle without doing the hard job.
If that is the case, you are stuck unless you want to rewire the outlet from another source: a new 20 amp circuit like it SHOULD be - tear up your bathroom and run it to the switch like the people who put it in didn't want to! Or tear up something else and get power from somewhere else that is hot all the time. IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY SURE YOU CAN DO THIS JOB
SAFELY AND COMPETENTLY
REFER THIS WORK TO QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS.
If you do this work yourself, always turn off the power
at the breaker box/fuse panel BEFORE you attempt to do any work AND
always use an electrician's test meter having metal-tipped probes
(not a simple proximity voltage indicator)
to insure the circuit is, in fact, de-energized.
Could be a loose connection somewhere, or a bad switch, or a bad outlet.
Yes, just make sure it is a 220 volt switch.
If you have any condition in your bathroom where a switch is malfunctioning you need to replace the switch or the device that is causing the problem. This is very dangerous in a bathroom because of the increased danger of shock because of moisture.
Home depot sells RF switches whereby if the fan is connected to the transmitter. It can be controlled by as far as 5 meters i believe In my SPA i have this device for safety. switch here get turn on there
The child must have got electrocuted if the outlet switch was on. As a precaution, keep such outlet covered so that the child can not insert the finger into the outlet.
Normally the second switch in a bathroom is the control for the bathroom's exhaust fan. The exhaust fan removes bad odors and humidity from the bathroom, and is on the ceiling of the bathroom.
If there is a black wire going from the outlet to the switch and the other side of the switch goes back to the outlet then just cut these wires and connect supply wire directly to outlet. If the supply goes to the switch first, disconnect from switch and connect the two wires with a wire-nut. Some situations only switch one of the two outlets in a duplex device. Do the same thing, but also replace the outlet since the strapping between both outlets has been removed.
No, that is not unsafe.
Could be a loose connection somewhere, or a bad switch, or a bad outlet.
ask them how
On what? IS this an outlet or a switch?
You need to run a wire from the existing power source to switch to switch to switch to outlet.
yes
Yes, just make sure it is a 220 volt switch.
That's one I've never seen. Does the bathroom light turn ON when the bedroom light is switched Off? Does the bathroom light switch turn the bathroom light on and off normally when the bedroom light switch is left on? Need to answer these questions, then find where the bathroom light power comes from. It's power supply should either go directly from the power oanel to the bathroom light or to the bathroom light switch. The bathroom light switch merely acts as an interrupter for the hot leg of this power supply.
If you have any condition in your bathroom where a switch is malfunctioning you need to replace the switch or the device that is causing the problem. This is very dangerous in a bathroom because of the increased danger of shock because of moisture.
Plug a lamp into a working socket of an outlet to ensure the lamp works. Then turn off the switch and plug lamp into all outlet sockets, top and bottom outlets until the lamp doesn't light. Then turn on the switch and the lamp should light. Often a switch in a bedroom is only connected to one socket in a duplex outlet. It is possible to remove a jumper in an outlet to isolate the sockets for just this purpose. Often an electrician will install the outlet upside down (The third prong pointing up, to identify the outlet.