Cut Wire In Attic We Covered Is That Safe

No boxes hidden in wall and no boxes covered by insulation in the attic.

Cut wire in attic we covered is that safe.

If you run wires through the attic you won t have to uncover the walls. Wires should be placed inside a covered box because if the connecting wires become overloaded or loose they can get heated and cause sparks. If the terminated wires are part of a working circuit it is now safe to restore power to the circuit. You cannot just wire nut two wires together and leave them dangling in the attic.

A safe way to get rid of all those old cable and phone wires. Make sure that you have about 1 2 inch of clean straight wire at the end. For the metal nicked or cut wires i assume i have to cut and splice them with a wire nut but in a couple cases the cut wire will be pretty short certainly not the 3 past the face of the box or whatever. Avoid potential fire hazard and future problems from damaged electrical wires.

The outside protective covering of a multi wire cable is called the sheath. That latter gets especially tricky if you are tapping into a circuit in the attic where the wires are covered by. Strip the plastic coating off the ends of the wires. If you allow these wires to stay in the open the sparks could cause a fire.

If the cable is inside a wall and sheath has been nicked then carefully wrap the outside with electrical tape is ok. Even if it were exposed as long as it is the plastic coated romex style wiring it should be fine also. If the wiring is covered by conduit and not exposed it is fine to cover it with insulation. All your junction boxes must be visible and accessible.

We cut the cord more than a decade ago but still have kudzu like cables running from the telephone pole to our house and then all. As per the national electrical codes these splices should be placed inside a covered electric box made of plastic or metal. When cutting through drywall from the interior of a room use a utility knife and cut carefully you don t want to drill through a hidden wire or the paper backing of the attic insulation. There are some wires that are just nicked in the sheathing some that are nicked into the copper wire and one that s cut nearly in half.