Electrical Panel Recommendations

[purplezr2]

Long story short I'm replacing the panel in my house and looking for recommendations

Current panel is Siemens

Long Story:
Ranch style house that was moved to its current location. When constructed the thought was that it would be set on a basement, wiring was run as such and therefore the panel would have been in the basement. House was build on a crawl space. Panel ended up on the exterior of the house due to no other location. Currently in the process of remodeling and would like the panel to be in the interior of the house. Therefore a new panel is needed.

 

[pizza]

Long Story:
Ranch style house that was moved to its current location.

how does one move a house

 

[purplezr2]

how does one move a house

House movers?

Really house moving is such a thing. it appear mine was moved in one piece but maybe in two. It is 28' wide by 46' long.

My house has the typical stud walls(actually mine has double 2x4 walls with a 2x4 air space in between that is full insulated), rafter, and floor joists.

 

[mike93lx]

Siemens and square d are good quality and generally available. My house has sqd homeline, which works fine. If I was building and using square d, I'd likely go homeline.

If you want to get really nerdy, the leviton stuff looks cool

 

[BillK]

Any reason you cant just move the present panel to the interior ??

 

[sparky 1971]

I use Square D almost exclusively, but I'd stick with Siemens and use the breakers you already have. Just make sure it has a copper bus. Those sneaky bastards make a less expensive panel with an aluminum bus.

 

[beemerphile]

If you want to get really nerdy, the leviton stuff looks cool

I gave away a Leviton panel for my shop when the Square D QO plug-on neutral panel I ordered six months ago finally arrived. They are cute, but Leviton is new at DP's and I was concerned that they may abandon the product line if it didn't do well.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

how does one move a house

my dad did it in the 80s. very large house... cut up into pieces, moved on a low boy in Maui of all places

 

[Norcal]

my dad did it in the 80s. very large house... cut up into pieces, moved on a low boy in Maui of all places

A 3800 sq ft Spanish style house was cut into 4 pieces , took off the chimneys off the masonry fireplaces & bent the rebar taking them too, moved them 30 miles away, did a nice job of reassembling it too.

I concur with sparky 1971's advice, and add stay away from Eaton BR, and GE.

 

[nadogail]

how does one move a house

It is generally done by sliding beams under the house, then jacking the beams high enough up to slide dollies under the beams, after those beams are secured together, they get pulled by a prime mover, which might be a tractor or a very big truck.

Sometimes houses are moved to the waterfront and picked up by a crane and loaded onto a barge.

I don't think house moving has changed much since I first saw it done in the late 1940's

 

[mike93lx]

It is generally done by sliding beams under the house, then jacking the beams high enough up to slide dollies under the beams, after those beams are secured together, they get pulled by a prime mover, which might be a tractor or a very big truck.

Sometimes houses are moved to the waterfront and picked up by a crane and loaded onto a barge.

I don't think house moving has changed much since I first saw it done in the late 1940's

I watched a video recently of about a hundred Amish guys picking up a barn and moving it down the street. Absolutely wild

 

[alfredeneuman]

I don't think house moving has changed much since I first saw it done in the late 1940's

My friend's Dad bought the Corona, CA Post Office in the early 1920s to use as his house.
He jacked it up, slid beams under it, and hauled it 15 miles on log rollers with a team of mules.
I agree that the process hasn't changed much.

 

[Norcal]

I posted this awhile back.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/in-1962-they-cut-a-house-in-half-shipped-it-across-the-sf-bay.503478/#post-9754997

 

[Jim greengo]

I've used sq-d home line panels when ever possible for residential work since early/mid 90s.
You couldnt give me a Siemens, ge or Cutler hammer panel.

 

[purplezr2]

Reason for not using the current panel is that it is mount on the exterior, and have a flip up lid which I hate. It is also missing the inner cover.

Plan it to install the new panel with updated breakers(AFCI/GFCI) and wire all the new circuits as part of the addition. Then move the old circuits over. There is a large junction box in the crawl space that has all the connection between the romex and the THHN that runs to the exterior panel.

 

[jlv03]

The panel manufacturers are slowly adding plug-on neutral connections for the AFCI/GFCI/combo breakers, so it might be a good idea to check one of them out.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Siemens and square d are good quality and generally available. My house has sqd homeline, which works fine. If I was building and using square d, I'd likely go homeline.

Homeline is the "budget" Square line where QO is there "premium" line. Big difference in cost. Breakers are NOT interchangeable.

 

[dscheidt]

I watched a video recently of about a hundred Amish guys picking up a barn and moving it down the street. Absolutely wild

The street grade in parts of Chicago was raised by about 5 to 8' in the 1850s, to give room for properly pitched sewers. buildings were lifted straight up, and a new brick wall built between the origianl basement and the ground floor. Big buildings, in one notable case, an entire block of 4 and 5 story masonry buildings, was lifted 5' by a few hundred men with a few thousand screw jacks. They didn't shut down the building, the shops stayed open.

 

[beemerphile]

I watched a video recently of about a hundred Amish guys picking up a barn and moving it down the street. Absolutely wild