Oh, I missed that!

I’ll update my comment

Their problems happened after they replaced the gfci

Haha you make a great point, not to bother.

People also seem to think this stuff is radioactive and will kill you at a distance. Wear a mask, and don’t cut up any lines of oak sawdust or asbestos and snort it, and if you do it this work for a living, be exceedingly cautious.

I have a complete apprehension to any IKEA product that involves wood.

You know those thick tables and shelves, table legs etc? 3mm hardboard with a hexagonal cardboard filling.

All the tables, shelves etc are in one way or form that material. Supposedly to make it greener, yet it is the exact opposite of green. The only use is to burn it when discarded.

It's useless to recycle, and we have a hard time dealing with those products which end up in the wood piles that we do recycle here, load it on trucks to turn into particle board. That's at least worth a few cycles of reuse.

IMHO, remove the countertop, buy a solid piece of wood in lieu of.

Agree with this. We were in a situation where this kept happening. We moved the fridge to a non GFCI circuit and haven't had a problem since.

Seems very likely IKEA is selling the absolute minimum thickness to soak up their hardening treatment. Which means sanding it all out is going to be a bad time.

Thanks, I didn't realize that. I'm not a wooder

The compressor on the fridge is going which is causing the trip.

GFCIs fail over time. Might be time to replace it.

Personally, I don’t like putting a GFCI on a fridge. The motor makes them trip too often.

edit I misunderstood. You just changed your GFCI.

2 things could be happening. You could just have a particularly sensitive GFCI that you’ve installed and may want to consider replacing it again. The other possibility is that the fridge is starting to wear out. That doesn’t mean that the fridge is bad per day but it could be working worse than it used to and the motor might burn out soon. I wouldn’t replace it until that actually happens but it could happen soon.

Yes, I was referring to testing the switched outlet. Sometimes people switch the neutral which can make for unexpected readings on a tester (and should be fixed). But, in the switched on position, if it reads the hot and neutral are reversed, they almost certainly are.

Need to report back Amperage the Circuit breaker is in panel later. By test u mean with my outlet tester?
I would need to recheck tester readings for all outlets while in off and on position. (Assuming you mean the Switched outlet )
The part idk is where in the circuit each sits. GFCI->switched outlet-> fridge. or Switched->gfci->fridge etc.

Honestly gfi trip for a fart in the wind they are uber sensitive. But you didn't do anything recently? New appliance? No new rework? Is this consistent regardless if your switched outlet is in on or off position?

Nice! Footnote 9 is confusingly worded. And it would be nice it there were more plywood types selectable. (In case you know the programmer)

First, is it a 20 amp circuit, or 15? Putting a 15 amp outlet for the fridge on a 20 amp circuit is OK, but putting a 20 amp outlet on a 15 amp circuit is not.

Did you test the switched outlet, both outlets, in both the off and on positions, and get different readings on the "reversed" wires at any time? I would definitely shut off the breaker and check (and fix) the wiring on the switched outlet.

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100%. It's like any woodworking i do - I know where all the mistakes are, and they bug me, but nobody else can ever see them. As someone once said, as you become better, you don't always make less mistakes, you just get better at hiding them.

I would put something on top of it and never worry about it. Like maybe a silicone mat or something. If you use a coffee maker or anything you should put something like that under it anyway to control spills.

There are people who want super-clear countertops 100% of the time who this would bother. I'm not one of them ;)

If i really couldn't deal with it, i'd save up the thousand bucks to get a solid red-oak plank countertop (This looks to be about 8-10 lineal feet of countertop, but maybe there's more elsewhere), and do that.

When you account for all the work and cost that would go into refinishing what's there, the price difference is not likely to be huge.

What others said about not sanding veneer. Cabinets to go, hd and lowes have solid wood counter tops (and our habitat for humanity restores often have them if you have one of those). Ikea laminate counters and cabinets are pretty great for the price, the hollow wood stuff not so much, be it furniture, shelves, etc.

why would an island vent be proper here? it's on an exterior wall and it's an old house, it probably has an actual vent.

also based on the fixture i'm guessing that's been there. not exactly something you can go down to home depot and purchase in 2023.

people still think if they're exposed to asbestos once they are as good as dead. you won't change their minds. lol

I agree. As a recent first-time homeowner, this is going to be one of those things that bothers OP far more than anyone else even if they notice it. I have a growing list of those "personal nuisance" projects.

Fussing with this anymore is going to lead them down the path of needing to redo the whole thing as it'll be very noticeable.

Oh it absolutely shouldn't be wired like that. There's no acceptable reason to wire one plug with two breakers. But it sounds like this is old wiring, if there's no ground, and stuff happens throughout the years.

Curious why would they wire it like that instead of just daisy chain off of one breaker?

I've run into this before. It's probably being fed by two breakers due to a cross connect somewhere in the wiring. I'd start turning off the breakers one by one, but don't turn them right back on. Leave them off. When the power is finally cut that will give you one of the breakers feeding that line. Leave that one off and turn everything back on, then repeat the process to find the other breaker feeding it.

I had that thought come to me as well I just didn’t do that initially. It’s at my girlfriends parents house and they were home and didn’t want to go shutting everything else at once hahah

Can you not put it under the screw that's still there? It's just a buss bar.