Documenting home circuits, and what else you'd find useful on this project

I've made a floorplan of my home in Visio. I've tracked all of the outlets, receptacles, and devices in my home, and I'm putting them on the floorplan now. How would you approach identifying, labeling, or otherwise tracking them on the floorplan so you can know at a glance which items are connected to which breaker or GFCI outlet? The existing key on the door of the breaker box isn't very useful when it says things like "Lights" and it impacts four rooms that aren't all adjacent. After issues tracking down tripped GFCI outlets, and figuring out where the break was to replace a ceiling fan, I figured I'd like to have something more accurate than the poorly labeled legend on the breaker box. And as a tangential question, what else would you find useful in documenting on a floorplan along these lines? submitted by /u/travelingjay [link] [comments]

Feb 13, 2025 - 18:55
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I've made a floorplan of my home in Visio. I've tracked all of the outlets, receptacles, and devices in my home, and I'm putting them on the floorplan now. How would you approach identifying, labeling, or otherwise tracking them on the floorplan so you can know at a glance which items are connected to which breaker or GFCI outlet?

The existing key on the door of the breaker box isn't very useful when it says things like "Lights" and it impacts four rooms that aren't all adjacent. After issues tracking down tripped GFCI outlets, and figuring out where the break was to replace a ceiling fan, I figured I'd like to have something more accurate than the poorly labeled legend on the breaker box.

And as a tangential question, what else would you find useful in documenting on a floorplan along these lines?

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