How to turn on lights in a new home when fuse box does not help.?

Ques­tion by CRP: How to turn on lights in a new home when fuse box does not help.?
I have a new town­house, a lit­tle over a year old. Our one bath­room and the kitchen lights went out. The appli­ances still work. I went to the fuse box and switched every switch and still noth­ing. What else do I do?

Best answer:

Answer by GTB
I won­der if the GFCI (ground fault cir­cuit inter­rup­tor) is tripped. If so there are some wire errors but first con­firm this. The GFCI out­let is a duplex out­let, prob­a­bly in the bath­room. Between the two out­lets, there are 2 but­tons, one usu­ally labeled T for test and the other R for reset. Push in the T and then push in R to reset. If this does the trick, you are in busi­ness. Now get the elec­tri­cian to prop­erly wire things as the lights should not be on the GFCI circuit.

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