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Old 09-20-2014, 07:44 PM
 
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bought a house with the federal electric old panel in an interior closet which was noted as a hazard on the inspection. ended up closing on the house but when i met with an electrician, he said it would be moved outside.

What is stopping someone from just turning off my power? This is especially a concern for my security alarm system which only runs 48 hours on backup battery (issue if out of town). Maybe I can install a lock on the panel?

Can I just remove the old panel and install a new one inside somewhere?
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Old 09-20-2014, 08:46 PM
 
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bought a house with the federal electric old panel in an interior closet which was noted as a hazard on the inspection. ended up closing on the house but when i met with an electrician, he said it would be moved outside.

What is stopping someone from just turning off my power? This is especially a concern for my security alarm system which only runs 48 hours on backup battery (issue if out of town). Maybe I can install a lock on the panel?

Can I just remove the old panel and install a new one inside somewhere?
Any motivated crook can/will kill your power in 1 second whether or not your panel is outside your home or not - I'll not say how but surely.
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:13 AM
 
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Wasn't this something you could have gotten the seller to have done prior to closing???

We have ours in one of our garages with the meter on the wall outside...house built around 2005...
but in our Bedford house--we did have our electric box outside on side of house--never had anyone throw the switch to kill our electric--but it was a pain going outside to check a breaker if there was thunderstorm---
I think many people in our neighborhood (all built in early 80s) had same type of deal...
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Old 09-21-2014, 06:43 AM
 
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Ours is inside the garage. I'm sure a new panel could be mounted inside the house, but if not, I'd just build a small fenced area around the panel. My parents old home in Des Moines had the panel outside, next to the AC unit. They had a small 6 ft fence on the side of the house surrounding it. They never locked it, but could easily do so if they wanted.
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Old 09-21-2014, 06:45 AM
 
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Ours is outside and it never occurred to me that someone might mess with it. It does have a loop at the bottom where you could lock it.
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Old 09-21-2014, 09:13 AM
 
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bought a house with the federal electric old panel in an interior closet which was noted as a hazard on the inspection. ended up closing on the house but when i met with an electrician, he said it would be moved outside.

What is stopping someone from just turning off my power? This is especially a concern for my security alarm system which only runs 48 hours on backup battery (issue if out of town). Maybe I can install a lock on the panel?

Can I just remove the old panel and install a new one inside somewhere?
There is no reason why the panel cannot be installed inside the house.
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Old 09-21-2014, 02:30 PM
 
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have detached garage
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Old 09-21-2014, 02:47 PM
 
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The reason they want to move it is that it is in a closet. The current panel is grandfathered in, but when work is done everything regarding the panel has to be brought up to current code. It is against electrical codes for the panel to be in a closet now unless it is a dedicated electrical closet.
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Old 09-21-2014, 04:51 PM
 
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The reason they want to move it is that it is in a closet. The current panel is grandfathered in, but when work is done everything regarding the panel has to be brought up to current code. It is against electrical codes for the panel to be in a closet now unless it is a dedicated electrical closet.
Says who, and what code article are they referencing?
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Old 09-22-2014, 09:00 AM
 
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How big of a potential hazard is having the breaker box in an interior closet? An electrician warned my grandmother about the new codes and said he'd like to move hers outside, but the price he quoted her was a lot, and she doesn't have a lot of money. If she removed all the clothes and flammable materials from the closet, would that help a lot?
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