Signs that your house needs a panel upgrade

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Signs that your house needs a panel upgrade
Doing an electrical panel upgrade is the right
thing to do if you own an old home or immediately
you have purchased one. This is especially true
if your house if full of electronics and
appliances or you plan to purchase a few more. In
most cases the circuit box or fuse box through
which electricity is brought into your house is
not big enough to accommodate the modern
lifestyle and when the replacement is not done
soon enough, there will be telltale signs that it
is time you contacted a commercial electrician to
help you sort the problem out. Some of these
signs include
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Signs that your house needs a panel upgrade
Insufficient power If you are going to
adequately accommodate your everyday kitchen
appliance as well as the HVAC system, your
computer network and every other electronic
device that is found in a modern home, you need
close to 200 amps of power to service your home.
The trouble is that many old electrical panels
have only 100 amps or thereabout this is why
your lights will start flickering as soon as you
start watching TV, charging your phone or cooking
breakfast as you dry your hair.
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Signs that your house needs a panel upgrade
Fuses still intact Considering an electrical
panel upgrade is paramount even in cases where
your fuses may still be intact. Most of the old
systems have only about 60 amps that come into
your house or in other cases they are wired
incorrectly. There are homeowners who install
larger fuses in order to prevent them from
blowing when they are overloaded the problem is
that this is a serious fire hazard. You are
better dealing with a circuit breaker system when
doing a panel upgrade. The age of the
panel The lifespan of many electrical panels is
between 20 and 30 years a panel upgrade is
imminent of your home is older than that by any
chance. You house needs one fuse or circuit
breaker for every circuit or wire so that you
stay in line with modern building codes.
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Signs that your house needs a panel upgrade
Age of Electrical Panel - Electrical panels are
meant to last 20 to 30 years, so an upgrade is
often necessary on a home that is older than
that. You should have one circuit breaker or fuse
for every wire or circuit to be in line with
modern building codes. Costs of electrical panel
upgrade You need to know that whenever you
decide to do panel upgrade, there will be new
wires coming in from the pole as well as a new
meter new wires will also be directed towards
the new panel but this will not cost you a dime.
However, there important things that a commercial
electrician will need to put in place before and
after the upgrade at your cost.
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