Molo
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For an existing house with a 100amp circuit breaker panel, can we build a clothes closet that will include the existing panel?
Thanks in Advance!
Bill
Thanks in Advance!
Bill
NoFor an existing house with a 100amp circuit breaker panel, can we build a clothes closet that will include the existing panel?
Thanks in Advance!
Bill
It can be installed in a closet, just not a clothes closet or where easily ignitable material are stored. This is as long as clearances are met and maintained.
I HIGHLY question this.They put the panel in the closet in apartments here.
Clothes hangers included.
It should be safe if the door is on the panel, and closed.
I would install a smoke alarm.
I guess the code varies for different locations.
Petey
It wasn’t but a couple years back that it was legal to put panels in the closets of mobile homes.
Mobile homes are managed by HUD which also managed many projects throughout our nation for the installation in apartment complexes.
To really make it sad is a lot of these installations were with FP panels and breakers which at one time were top of the line.
Yes, true. Thing is it was stated that you cannot put a panel in a closet. This is simply not entirely true.In a perfect world nothing happens to a panel in a closet but we all know that this is not a perfect world.
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The codes are a minimum safe installation guide that is adopted into law. Once the codes have been met it lets people such as but not limited to home owners, banks, insurance companies, tax departments (humor), fire departments, and the list continues, that this building meets a minimum safety standard.
Yup. I have worked on MANY of them.Petey
It wasn’t but a couple years back that it was legal to put panels in the closets of mobile homes.
Mobile homes are managed by HUD which also managed many projects throughout our nation for the installation in apartment complexes.
To really make it sad is a lot of these installations were with FP panels and breakers which at one time were top of the line.
Yet breaker panels are installed in garages where some of the most burnable, explodable, and combustible things are stored.In a perfect world nothing happens to a panel in a closet but we all know that this is not a perfect world......
....My Grandpa always said, “An ounce of prevention is worth more than a ton of cure.” With this thought in mind, who would want to install a panel in an area that could easily ignite?
Yet breaker panels are installed in garages where some of the most burnable, explodable, and combustible things are stored.
I never get to see this on a final of a new house but when doing change out inspections and needing to see the size overcurrent in the panel for the new unit I have seen many a scary scenario.Yet breaker panels are installed in garages where some of the most burnable, explodable, and combustible things are stored.
This is awkward, but...
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