400 amp service

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Never had to remotely locate half of a service before, until now. The home had a kitchen & garage addition put up, and a second story bedroom added. The new roof line is about 6 inches under the old service drop along the entire length of it "no exceptions make this legal", so the service is being moved to the recently added garage. There is a 200 amp panel in the basement now and the service is being upgraded to 400 amps, so my intention is to set my 200 amp panel in the garage and a 200 amp disconnect next to it feeding the exsisting panel with SER. Does anyone see a problem with this ? Any feed back would be appreciated.
 
Just separate the GCs from the EGCs and pull the bonding jumper in the old 200 amp service. May need to add an equipment ground bar. The bond to the water pipe will now have to come from the garage and be larger in size. IMO the existing water pipe bond/GEC should be removed. Don't forget 4 wire to range and dryer, if they aren't already.
 
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Just separate the GCs from the EGCs and pull the bonding jumper in the old 200 amp service. May need to add an equipment ground bar. The bond to the water pipe will now have to come from the garage and be larger in size. IMO the existing water pipe bond/GEC should be removed. Don't forget 4 wire to range and dryer, if they aren't already.
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Yeah all of those are in check just wasn't sure if anyone had run into problem remotely locating half of a service, I appreciate all the comments.

Another issue I ran into today however after seeing the furnaces, the job was bid at two 15 amp circuits for the two gas furnaces. Well ofcourse they are both electric not gas and both require two 60 amp circuits, I wouldn't have a problem if one wasn't located on the 3rd floor on the complete opposite side of the house. As usual it says copper conductors only so my intentions are to run aluminum to a disconnect and change over to copper from there. Now having my main OCPD at the panel and the factory installed 60 amp breaker disconnects on the units, is there anything stopping me from adding a 3rd disconnect to save a ton on wire costs ? I remember seeing something in regards to not allowing more than two disconnects, but I briefly looked earlier and could not find it. I seem to remember it being in regards to taps for some reason so I am hoping it does not apply to my installation.

I would appreciate anything you have to share.
 
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