On Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:24:51 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 21:41:21 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:


Going to be removing the baseboard heater in the bedroom. It is
just taking up space. (Is small house- 3 inches would make a
difference on the water closet's door side.)

I did that, too, installing a gas, 96% efficient furnace + A/C in
their place. Dayum, what a =lovely= difference! I ran romex and
converted the existing circuit breakers to 3x 240v outlets for the
shop. Half of one spare went for the new furnace and I ran wire from
the other spare to be used by the new A/C condenser/compressor unit.


"easy part" is removing them. What I want to do is route the
power into a wall socket so I can have bedside lamps in there. Surface
mount and just trim the wires to fit?

Not quite. Check your wiring. You might have 12/2 w/ground, which
wouldn't be to code for 120v outlets.

If it is 12/2 with black and white it IS to code. If it is 12/2H, with
red and black it is not code unless he paints ot tapes both ends of
the red to white - when it technically passes code.

If you have 12/3 w/ground, you
can convert each to a 120v line because of the neutral. Either would
work well, but only one would be to code. I like that particular code
snippet because it keeps us safer. Check your gauge, too, because
some homes were built with 14ga wiring. I guess it wouldn't matter
much unless you were running high-powered equipment on them.

As long as he has a 15 amp breaker on the circuit, and it is copper,
it is to code. 14guage for baseboard heaters is NOT to code - so it's
pretty well a non-issue.

I saw the other threads (just got back from a trip to Gunnerland) and
will add: use a boom box to trace circuits. It will tell you loud and
clear when the power to that outlet is on. g But since yours are
clearly labeled (a rare treat), you won't need one this time. I
bought one of the buzzer circuit tracers and they work poorly. I got
feedback from six adjacent wires when I tried it a couple times.
Avoid this style: https://is.gd/crkfoE Feh.