Hidden Junction Box In Wall

Speaking of hidden junction box or buried in the wall i just have a service call last week and took me a good 3 hours to find this stubbon junction box.

Hidden junction box in wall.

Just because a junction box is hidden behind a wall isn t going to make it more likely that. Nec 314 4 non metallic boxes of rectangular shape 2 1 4 inch. 2003 irc e3806 4 2 all boxes shall be accessible. Junction outlet and lighting 1 unused openings in boxes and conduit bodies shall be closed.

Electrical wires run behind the walls and through the ceiling of your home meeting at junction boxes. This would be much easier than putting a box lower just to splice to move the box up higher in the cabinet. I would like to move the box up to the upper part of the cabinet but the romex is not very long coming from under the cabinet. Yes i know you will ask me did i find it.

By william mccoy a junction box also known as a splice or switch box is an electrical enclosure inside your home that contains wiring. 99 get it as soon as thu sep 17. Sealed up behind a wall. Email save comment 3.

Cover up a junction box legally run a new run from one source to another and patch a few holes adding a room anyway so what you worry about unless is a good location for a cable box and a wall mounted tv then just utilize that into a receptacle. Through sources like this forum i ve learned that it is against code to have a junction box that is hidden i e. It is a safety hazard to completely bury a junction box in a wall. The answer is oui yes but in really oddball place it was inside the door jamb.