Removing a switched outlet

[garrett1812]

I have a duplex outlet that has one socket switched. I want to make hot all the time so that I can eliminate the switch and put a different switch in in the box.

What is the best approach? The switch and outlet both have an always hot black k wire and a switched red wire. Should I remove the switch and tie the red and black together in the box containing the switch, or cap the red at both the switch box and outlet box, and wire the outlet like a usual duplex outlet with a bridge over the two hot terminals? Or is either way fine?

 

[Jtrudel90]

I think I would be doing the latter of the 2

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Either way would work but id prefer method one which is easier to undo IMPO

 

[garrett1812]

I ended up capping the red on both sides. I figure in 10 years when I look at this again, maybe I will have a better chance of making sense of what was there and remembering there even was a switched outlet.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

How did u bridge the the receptacles?

 

[garrett1812]

The easy way, I just replaced it with a new one. I had several laying around.

 

[nadogail]

The easy way, I just replaced it with a new one. I had several laying around.

When in doubt, choose the easiest correctable way.

 

[JRC3]

The easy way, I just replaced it with a new one. I had several laying around.

Be sure to throw that old one out.

My buddy calls me on day after he mustered up the confidence to change out a loose outlet with one he had sitting in a drawer in the garage...Seem only half of the newly installed outlet worked. The first thing I said to check for was the tab.