Installing ceiling fans. There are pre-existing switch boxes at 60" from the floor that were for baseboard heating controllers. The base board heaters are long gone but the switches remain. Can I install the ceiling fan switches in these boxes? I hate the thought of patching those holes and then cutting new holes fan switches.
Thanks, Casper

No code, you can have it at any height you want. Neighbors may look at you strangely though.

Wire away. We just had someone comment about a "code violation "with a switch box at 24" from the floor. That's OK too. You could treat the 60" box as a junction box, install a new box at 48" and put a paintable cover on the 60" box or hang a picture over it.

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Originally Posted by hkstroud

No code, you can have it at any height you want. Neighbors may look at you strangely though.

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Thanks, let me push this a little further. What's your thoughts on using existing wiring. The baseboard heat wiring used 12-2-G Panaflex solid strand wire (b/w/g). I upgraded to 200 amp services and the electrician preserved the old heater circuits by including 3 20 amp breakers as "spares" in the panel. There is currently no load on those circuits but each contains the wiring circuit for 2 heaters. It would be very easy to just replace the switches and crawl up in the attic to re-route the heater wire to the location of the fan.

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Originally Posted by ma0641

Wire away. We just had someone comment about a "code violation "with a switch box at 24" from the floor. That's OK too. You could treat the 60" box as a junction box, install a new box at 48" and put a paintable cover on the 60" box or hang a picture over it.

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Thanks, let me push this a little further. What's your thoughts on using existing wiring. The baseboard heat wiring used 12-2-G Panaflex solid strand wire (b/w/g). I upgraded to 200 amp services and the electrician preserved the old heater circuits by including 3 20 amp breakers as "spares" in the panel. There is currently no load on those circuits but each contains the wiring circuit for 2 heaters. It would be very easy to just replace the switches and crawl up in the attic to re-route the heater wire to the location of the fan.

Sounds good to me, however!!

These heater circuits were probably 240 volt. "Preserving 3 20 amp breakers" is a further indication.

If it is a 240 volt circuit remove the white from the breaker and attach it to the neutral/ground bar to make the circuit 120 volt.

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Originally Posted by hkstroud

Sounds good to me, however!!!!

These heater circuits were probably 240 volt. "Preserving 3 20 amp breakers" is a further indication.

If it is a 240 volt circuit remove the white from the breaker and attach it to the neutral/ground bar to make the circuit 120 volt.

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Thanks again,

I believe the electrician changed them to 120 volt, in the old 125 amp panel I think the breakers were 30 amp. Never opened the panel, hope it is easy to check.

If they are single breakers the will be 120. Simply do a voltage check between black and white wires.