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Minuteman

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It's not the bigger ones that bother me, but the little ones. Lady bought a 1200 ft/2 house that was built in the early 60's that has a 100a FPE panel in the bedroom closet. She is changing her gas wall oven and gas cook top for electric. Also a built in Microwave.

I bid a 60 amp Stablock 2pole with # 8/3 and using the tap rule, and a dedicated 20 amp 1pole with #12/2.

Attic is a little low & tight (hip roof). No spare conduit in panel. Vinyl on eves & soffit.

My price is $1225, what do you think?
 
For not too much more, you could rescue her from the FP panel and do a service change at the same time. It might be worth it just to have the panel out of the wall for the new home runs.

Is there no crawl space? For the home runs and even the microwave, overhead might be better, but it should be a lot easier to feed a range receptacle from under the floor than overhead.
 
"For not too much more, you could rescue her from the FP panel and do a service change"

With that panel in the closet, a good guess would be twice the price, or more, we did a lot of those old closet panels, and what he most likely find is, the working space is tight, and don't forget those existing circuits are in the wall, a lot of time on that upgrade, open up a real can of worms.
 
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77401 said:
Are you bragging?
Did you get the job?
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No, I think I over did it.
LarryFine said:
For not too much more, you could rescue her from the FP panel and do a service change at the same time. It might be worth it just to have the panel out of the wall for the new home runs.
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Yeah, I think I will adjust my bid and try to get the whole thing.

Cavie said:
FPE??? Remember, you were the last guy to work on it!
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I know, and that bugs me
 
Those little jobs all too often turn right into bigger jobs, that in some cases I may not even want. Whenever we run a new circuit into a panel in my area, we have to make sure the panel is either current to code or get it that way. So when the little old lady just wants a bathroom plug cause she is getting too old to reach for the one on the light over the mirror, all to often she will have to pay me to relocate her sub panel, and if it is an old three wire feed, then upgrade the feeder also. Then when I tie in the new upgraded 4 wire feeder at the service end, that service disconnect might be one of the ones that is 8' off of the grade level so.........
 
Yep, not if it is in a clothes closet or in a little pantry closet with sheves . Tommorow I get to reverse a pantry panel around. Actually I also put a brand new can in, with new breakers as the ones inside pantry's here are 40-50 years old now. And they almost always were fed with SEU and the grounds (if any) and neuts landed on the same busbar even though the service disconect is outside at the meter. I don't know, was this ever actually legal at one time? Not since I started in mid 70's anyway.
 
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