I'm remodeling my bathroom and am going to take the existing bathroom lights and receptacles off the circuits they are on now and pull new, dedicated circuits for them. Since the bathroom was in the middle of the circuits, not at the end, I am wondering how I can remove the wiring for the bathroom and still keep the existing circuits intact. The easiest thing to do would be to cut back the cable to the walls and join the wires in a junction box in the wall (i.e. 1-in, 1-out). But my reading of the NEC implies that the boxes must be in a permanently accessible. I would have to cover the wall junction boxes with sheetrock. But there isn't enough existing cable to make a run through the top plate and into the attic and below is inaccessible because it's the ceiling of the first floor. Am I interpreting the code correctly? Do I have to pull off the sheetrook to the last and first receptacles in the existing circuit and run uninterrupted cable between them? Or is there another way? Thanks Jeff

A room in our house has a switch at each of the two doors into the room. The switches operate a couple of wall plugs. Can I eliminate these switches [and make the wall plugs always "hot"] by simply tying all the black wires together and all the whites together in each of the two boxes? How about if the white wires are already clipped off in the box? Thank you so much.