I'd like to install a ceiling (ceiling max) in my basement. I would need to move several obstructions that come down too far. One of which is a junction box . The junction box has conduit running into & out of it. It is part of the circuit to my old electric dryer. I no longer need it - I recently converted to gas. The junction box is mounted against the bottom of the joists and comes down farther than I would like to drop my ceiling. I thought it would be easy enough to simply open the junction box - unsplice the wires and move it, but to my surprise when I opened the box I noticed that the wires within it were not spliced at all - they just continued in from one piece of conduit and out into the other piece of conduit. I could get rid of the entire circuit staring at the breaker panel but I was told that probably isn't a good idea because if I ever want to convert back to electric I'd have to run the circuit all over again. To me the easiest option seems to be to cut the wires (3 of them) within the junction box, move the junction box & then splice the wires together again within the junction box. The only reason I'm somewhat hesistant to do this is that the wires are fairly thick - probably 8g & I was wondering if there was some code or other reason arguing against doing this.

A while back I asked about switching an existing light switch that controls an outlet to run a cieling fan and I got a reply with a link attached. I was wondering if you could repost the link so that I might be able to print off a hard copy to keep at home in my own do it myself folder?!?! (for quick reference, instead of logingg on) Thank you for the help also!!! Now the heat from my gas fireplace is nicely moved through my living room!!!