Hi,

I am remodeling my bathroom. The original heating had electric baseboard. The new heating installed years ago is now oil fired forced hot air.

I removed the old electric baseboard and now have an unused wire. What is the safest way of burying this wire?

Thanks,
Kevin

THe cable should be removed it's entire length. If that is not practical because most of it is buried behind finished walls and stapled, then do this:

Find the other end at the feed, and be sure to cut it free from whatever may be feeding it. Obviously, cap those live feed wires, and enclose them in a covered junction box. The now dead cable, if you cannot remove the cable entirely from end to end, then at both ends install a small junction box with the proper cable connectors into the box, cap the wires with wirenuts or electrical tape, cover the box with the proepr blank cover for that box, and label the cover " Do Not Energize, Abandoned Cable". Do this at both ends, and at the end in the bathroom that box can be buried in behind the wall finish.

You can see that if in the future someone finds this cable during another remodel, what they find will make sense to them, and if they do connect power to it, no harm will be done.

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Originally Posted by alloverlajolla

Hi,

I am remodeling my bathroom. The original heating had electric baseboard. The new heating installed years ago is now oil fired forced hot air.

I removed the old electric baseboard and now have an unused wire. What is the safest way of burying this wire?

Thanks,
Kevin

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Thanks. I have a follow up. Since I am unsure where the other end is, then does it make sense to disconnect it from the circuit breaker. I am certain those circuits are only for baseboard heating throughout the house.

Or there is a switch that engages and controls the heater. Might the other end be there?

Thanks,
Kevin

If there is a wall stat, then there is the "feed" end. If the stat is built into the heater, then the feed end is at the breaker. Or it may be at another heater or stat.

Since all the electric heat, I take it, is now replaced by another heat source, then all the breakers for the old electric heat should be shut off and those wires capped in the panel.

What I will do is remove and cap all baseboard heat connections to the circuit and junction box the one in the bathroom.


Thanks for your help.

Kevin

For safety reason , YOU MUST EARTH this spare wire at leat on one side... this is the correct way to keep spare wires... Regards

A) This advice it NOT true in the US. Please refer to the area you are in or the code itself when giving advice such as this.
Also, you are in another thread ask what to do with a spare wire, yet in this one you are telling folks what to do. What gives?

B) This thread is over three and a half YEARS old.