GFIC (GFI) Outlet Replacement?

[apackoftwo]

I was looking for a thread about replacing your GFI or GFIC and could not find one specifically about this topic. So since I need to replace one I thought it would be valuable for others if they have not had to do this yet

I have two, one in my kitchen and one in my bathroom. Most times there is another outlet wired to your GFIC that will not work if your GFIC outlet goes bad.

First you need to test to see if the outlet is actually bad. You do this by pressing the TEST and then RESET buttons located on the outlet itself

If those do not work chances are its the outlet itself

However, there are also ways to check to see if the GFIC is actually GETTING power and this is where I need someone to jump in...before continuing with the how to of replacing the GFIC outlet...