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Posted by Srgnt Billko on March 18, 2007, 7:27 pm
> Electrical tape on the ends will work. There are retrofit heavy fixture/
> fan boxes, like Westinghouse 1100 that will install through the existing
> hole and expand inside the ceiling, joist to joist, to hang your
> chandelier or fan from
I wouldn't just put electrical tape on without putting wire nuts on first.
And does the circuit dead-end there or is the power usede further on ?
>> We have a house built in the late 60s/early 70s that was clearly
>> renovated (in about 2004) by an idiot who had no concern for safety or
>> building codes or anything else.
>> We removed a heavy glass chandelier with the intention of putting in a
>> ceiling fan, and found that the box was clearly a plastic one designed
>> for lightweight lighting fixtures and not anything heavy, and
>> furthermore, was not secured to anything but instead was just sort of
>> floating in the celing. In fact, it seemed so flimsy we didn't want to
>> put the chandelier back up.
>> So we thought fine, we'll just stick in a lightweight fixture for now
>> until we can get a pro out to re-do the box, since we eventually want
>> to replace all the ceiling fixtures anyway.
>> However, for a few reasons related to how flimsy and badly-installed
>> the box is, we don't think it's really safe to put anything back on
>> it--the holes to screw a mounting strip onto are stripped, for one
>> thing, so they don't really hold securely.
>> How can we safely cap off the wires (power, neutral, and ground) and
>> put a cover on the hole in the ceiling until we can get an electrician
>> out to look at it and fix it? Obviously we don't want to have live
>> wires there but there's no way we can leave the breaker off
>> indefinitely.
>> BTW we have aluminum wiring.
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> fan boxes, like Westinghouse 1100 that will install through the existing
> hole and expand inside the ceiling, joist to joist, to hang your
> chandelier or fan from