Doug Miller wrote:

In article , Jeff Wisnia wrote:


If you DO find a damaged wire there, then call in an electrician if you
can't handle the repair yourself. I'm no code mavin, but it might be
possible to make a legal splice of a damaged wire without having to pull
a whole new length by installing a box in the wall with a cover on it,
and that box could be hidden behind a picture.


As long as there's enough slack in the cable to pull it into the box, while
leaving enough to make splices there, that's certainly Code-compliant. The big
question is whether there's enough slack in the cable... and it's likely there
is *not*.


Aren't there approved in-line crimp connectors and tools to install them
which could be used to join the three wires in a typical piece of Romex
after the ends had been fed into a box? Seems like that might take
little or no "slack".

My understanding is that you can't make a splice in a box which isn't
accessable. i.e. you couldn't hide it behind plasterboard. That's why my
suggestion would end up with a box cover flush with the wall, behind an
easily removed picture.

Could someone please clue me in about crimp connectors for that sort of
application and also "inaccessable" boxes?

Jeff

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