Jeff Wisnia wrote:

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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Jeffry Wisnia
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Don't know about approved crimp connectors, but you could accomplish the
same task with the approved quick connect connectors that are being used
in manufactured housing now. They would allow you to make the same
no-slack type connection just snipping out the tiny damaged section.

Pete C.