gbeichho
August 15th, 2005, 09:34 PM
I just re-wired a couple of rooms in my cottage (Ontario, Canada) when I refinished the wall (the old stuff was horridly wired, I was amazed how many hidden J-boxes I could find in the ceiling, most uncovered).
In order to leave myself with flexible baseboard/room configurations, I wired some boxes in various locations for possible heater installation. Now I have a couple of questions:
1) For the unused boxes, do I need to cap the wires where they terminate in the unused boxes? (they are not connected) All the boxes are closed.
2) Likewise, do I need to cap them in the thermostat box? (where they remain unconnected to anything)
3) When I connect the baseboard itself, I noticed that Knight didn't like the method of connecting it over a box, but it was allowed. What I did was wire a short length (~8") into the heater, and clamped it down and closed it. I then stripped the outer sheathing (leaving 1 inch outside the baseboard) and picktailed the heater into the wires in the box. Then I stuffed it all into the box and mounted the heater on top of it. Is this the correct method? All three wires (including ground) were properly connected in the box. I was careful about box fill as well -- I'm only using 14 AWG, 3 wire nuts with the large platic boxes.
Thanks,
George
In order to leave myself with flexible baseboard/room configurations, I wired some boxes in various locations for possible heater installation. Now I have a couple of questions:
1) For the unused boxes, do I need to cap the wires where they terminate in the unused boxes? (they are not connected) All the boxes are closed.
2) Likewise, do I need to cap them in the thermostat box? (where they remain unconnected to anything)
3) When I connect the baseboard itself, I noticed that Knight didn't like the method of connecting it over a box, but it was allowed. What I did was wire a short length (~8") into the heater, and clamped it down and closed it. I then stripped the outer sheathing (leaving 1 inch outside the baseboard) and picktailed the heater into the wires in the box. Then I stuffed it all into the box and mounted the heater on top of it. Is this the correct method? All three wires (including ground) were properly connected in the box. I was careful about box fill as well -- I'm only using 14 AWG, 3 wire nuts with the large platic boxes.
Thanks,
George
