Switch to nowhere.....

Been in the house three years, not the original owners. We have a switch that has hot incoming, and hot outgoing when the switch is flipped, but it does not appear to connect to anything.

I've opened all receptacles looking for extra wires, and there is nothing - no ceiling fans...... Everything works, whether the switch is on or not. It may go into an area of the attic that is sealed, perhaps for an outdoor light that was never installed, but who knows.

Is it ok to remove the switch, wire nut everything in there separately including the incoming hot terminating it in the switch box, and put a blank plate on the thing? I don't want anyone turning it on and leaving it on not knowing where it terminates.

Thanks.

 

Question answered - goes to the hot tub we have never used. What a doofus.

 

Yes, that would be okay.

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Thanks Ray - took me three years, but just discovered the switch goes to the hot tub across the room. First time I had seen that!

 

Was probably intended to be a timer or deadface GFCI. Does the tub plug into a GFCI receptacle?