I just finished watching “The Money Pit”. I laughed and my dog is still sulking in the corner because when ever it rains the leak in the roof is directly over her bed. That’s the house I bought though.
I just tore out a rreally old wood stove and am repalcing it with an up to par super efficient model. I ripped out the heat shield and there are two out lets in the wall. The plastic covers are pretty yellow (from the heat?), the outlets are useless. The boxes are not flush with the wall but extend out a half inch, so i ripped those out also. Can I chop the wires, put caps on them, tape them up and just shove them back in the wall? I’m kinda thinking that would not be up to code? Install a new box inset into the wall with the wire in it and then patch up the hole in the wall?
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Eric, care to answer this?
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If the wires are hot, you have to cap them in a box with a cover on it, and the box can't be concealed. If you can find where they get their power from, and you don't have anything that feeds from them downstream, you can cut them off at the source, and just leave them dead and concealed in the wall.
If you go that route, though, it's better not to burn your bridges. Leave plenty of slack and make notes on where these wires run. You may want to re-activate them in the future.
-- J.S.
If you can find out where the wires end and disconnect them at the other end (remove the wires totally from the box at the other end) then you can (according to most but not all "authorities" abandon them in the wall. If you can't disconnect them at the other end then they must terminate in an accessible box.
(At least that's the story if the inspector is listening.)