Existing Bathroom Panel can be upgraded?

[flashlight]

This is a 20 circuit panel in the bathroom of a large (former) hunting cabin. It was built that way because the bathroom was the logical place for the service drop, and it was legal at the time. Not sure in which code cycle it became illegal.
Now, they need more positions, and the most straightforward way to do that would be to swap the panel.
Are they allowed to do that now?

 

[Dennis Alwon]

I believe it best if you contact the inspector and see if they will allow it. Some areas say yea others nay

 

[marmathsen]

I believe it best if you contact the inspector and see if they will allow it. Some areas say yea others nay

I was always under the impression that when replacing a panelboard and it's enclosure that it must be brought up to current code including its location, but I wasn't able to find that this morning when I looked for it. Is that consistent with your understanding of the NEC?

Other sections explicitly state what must be updated when installing a replacement.

Rob G
Seattle

 

[infinity]

It would just add a sub-panel somewhere else in a permitted location fed from the original panel.

 

[ramsy]

I believe it best if you contact the inspector and see if they will allow it. Some areas say yea others nay

And, contact the POCO for a meter spot, who may want different location for service

 

[LarryFine]

Can you use tandem breakers?