So here's one: Between the drywall guys and their roto-zips and the helpers who can't remember the 6" rule, we've been finding an awful lot of really short wires when it comes time to trim out houses.

Barring obvious alternatives like trying to pull extra slack, my usual solution is to simply add a pig-tail to the short section of wire, making it long enough to work with.

In addition to being a code violation, if I find several wires nicked in a small box, the extra wire-nuts can crowd things up fast.

I'd love to use some sort of non-reversable splice on these wires, but I'm none-to-comfortable with the idea of using something like a butt-splice. Seems like those things are best with LV.

I can't be the only one who runs into this problem, how do ya'll solve it?

-John